“Peruse thou the Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) and that which the All-Merciful hath sent down unto the King of Paris (Napoleon III) and to such as are like him, that thou mayest be made aware of the things that have happened in the past, and be persuaded that We have not sought to spread disorder in the land after it had been well-ordered.  We exhort, wholly for the sake of God, His servants.  Let him who wisheth turn unto Him, and him who wisheth turn aside.  Our Lord, the Merciful, is verily the All-Sufficing, the All-Praised.  O concourse of the kindreds of the earth!  This is the day whereon nothing amongst all things, nor any name amongst all names, can profit you save through this Name which God hath made the Manifestation of His Cause and the Dayspring of His Most Excellent Titles unto all who are in the kingdom of creation.  Blessed is that man that hath recognized the fragrance of the All-Merciful and been numbered with the steadfast.  Your sciences shall not profit you in this day, nor your arts, nor your treasures, nor your glory.  Cast them all behind your backs, and set your faces towards the Most Sublime Word through which the Scriptures and the Books and this lucid Tablet have been distinctly set forth.  Cast away, O people, the things ye have composed with the pen of your idle fancies and vain imaginings.  By God!  The Daystar of Knowledge hath shone forth above the horizon of certitude.

“O thou who art gone astray!  If thou hast any doubt concerning Our conduct, know thou that We bear witness unto that whereunto God hath Himself borne witness ere the creation of the heavens and of the earth, that there is none other God but Him, the Almighty, the All-Bounteous.  We testify that He is One in His Essence, One in His Attributes.  He hath none to equal Him in the whole universe, nor any partner in all creation.  He hath sent forth His Messengers, and sent down His Books, that they may announce unto His creatures the Straight Path.

“Hath the Shah been informed, and chosen to close his eyes to thine acts?  Or hath he been seized with fear at the howling of a pack of wolves who have cast the path of God behind their backs and followed in thy way without any clear proof or Book?  We have heard that the provinces of Persia have been adorned with the adornment of justice.  When We observed closely, however, We found them to be the dawning-places of tyranny and the daysprings of injustice.  We behold justice in the clutches of tyranny.  We beseech God to set it free through the power of His might and His sovereignty.  He, verily, overshadoweth all that is in the heavens and on earth.  To none is given the right to protest against any one concerning that which hath befallen the Cause of God.  It behooveth whosoever hath set his face towards the Most Sublime Horizon to cleave tenaciously unto the cord of patience, and to put his reliance in God, the Help in Peril, the Unconstrained.  O ye loved ones of God!  Drink your fill from the wellspring of wisdom, and soar ye in the atmosphere of wisdom, and speak forth with wisdom and eloquence.  Thus biddeth you your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Knowing.