in Mine heart for thee nor for anyone.  Every man of discernment beholdeth thee, and such as are like thee, engulfed in evident folly.  Hadst thou realized that which thou hast done, thou wouldst have cast thyself into the fire, or abandoned thine home and fled unto the mountains, or wouldst have groaned until thou hadst returned unto the place destined for thee by Him Who is the Lord of strength and of might.  O thou who art even as nothing!  Rend thou asunder the veils of idle fancies and vain imaginings, that thou mayest behold the Daystar of knowledge shining from this resplendent Horizon.  Thou hast torn in pieces a remnant of the Prophet Himself, and imagined that thou hadst helped the Faith of God.  Thus hath thy soul prompted thee, and thou art truly one of the heedless.  Thine act hath consumed the hearts of the Concourse on high, and those of such as have circled round the Cause of God, the Lord of the worlds.  The soul of the Chaste One (Fatimih) melted, by reason of thy cruelty, and the inmates of Paradise wept sore in that blessed Spot.

“Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God.  What proof did the Jewish doctors adduce wherewith to condemn Him Who was the Spirit of God (Jesus Christ), when He came unto them with truth?  What could have been the evidence produced by the Pharisees and the idolatrous priests to justify their denial of Muhammad, the Apostle of God when He came unto them with a Book that judged between truth and falsehood with a justice which turned into light the darkness of the earth, and enraptured the hearts of such as had known Him?  Indeed thou hast produced, in this day, the same proofs which the foolish divines advanced in that age.  Unto this testifieth He Who is the King of the realm of grace in this great Prison.  Thou hast, truly, walked in their ways, nay, hast surpassed them in their cruelty, and hast deemed thyself to be helping the Faith and defending the Law of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.  By Him Who is the Truth!  Thine iniquity hath made Gabriel to groan, and hath drawn tears from the Law of God, through which the breezes of justice have been wafted over all who are in heaven and on earth.  Hast thou fondly imagined that the judgment thou didst pronounce hath profited thee?  Nay, by Him Who is the King of all Names!  Unto thy loss testifieth He with Whom is the knowledge of all things as recorded in the preserved Tablet.

“O thou who hast gone astray!  Thou hast neither seen Me, nor associated with Me, nor been My companion for the fraction of a moment.  How is it, then, that thou hast bidden men to curse Me?  Didst thou, in this, follow the promptings of thine own desires, or didst thou obey thy Lord?  Produce thou a sign, if thou art one of the truthful.  We testify that thou hast cast behind thy back the Law of God, and laid hold on the dictates of thy passions.  Nothing, in truth, escapeth His knowledge; He, verily, is the Incomparable, the All-Informed.  O heedless one!  Hearken unto that which the Merciful hath