O people of the Bayan!  I swear by God!  This Wronged One hath had no other intention except to manifest the Cause He was commissioned to reveal.  Were ye to incline your inner ears unto Him, ye would hear from every limb and member and vein and even from every single hair of this Wronged One that which would stir and enrapture the Concourse on high and the world of creation.

O Hadi!  The blind fanaticism of former times hath withheld the hapless creatures from the Straight Path.  Meditate on the Shi’ih sect.  For twelve hundred years they have cried “O Qa’im!”, until in the end all pronounced the sentence of His death, and caused Him to suffer martyrdom, notwithstanding their belief in, and their acceptance and acknowledgment of, the True One—­exalted be His glory—­and of the Seal of the Prophets, and of the Chosen Ones.  It is now necessary to reflect a while, that haply that which hath come between the True One and His creatures may be discovered, and the deeds which have been the cause of protest and denial be made known.

O Hadi!  We have heard the moaning of the pulpits which, as attested by all, the divines of the age of this Revelation have ascended, and from which they have cursed the True One, and caused such things to befall Him Who is the Essence of Being and His companions as neither the eye nor the ear of the world hath seen or heard.  Thou hast now summoned, and art still summoning the people, claiming to be His vicegerent and mirror, despite thine ignorance of this Cause as a result of thy not having been in Our company.

Every one of this people well knoweth that Siyyid Muhammad was but one of Our servants.  In the days when, as requested by the Imperial Ottoman Government, We proceeded to their Capital, he accompanied Us.  Subsequently, he committed that which—­I swear by God—­hath caused the Pen of the Most High to weep and His Tablet to groan.  We, therefore, cast him out; whereupon, he joined Mirza Yahya, and did what no tyrant hath ever done.  We abandoned him, and said unto him:  “Begone, O heedless one!” After these words had been uttered, he joined the order of the Mawlavis, and remained in their company until the time when We were summoned to depart.

O Hadi!  Suffer not thyself to become the instrument for the dissemination of new superstitions, and refuse to set up once again a sect similar to that of the Shi’ihs.  Reflect how great the amount of blood which hath been spilt.  Thou amongst others, who hast laid claim to knowledge, and likewise the Shi’ih divines, have, one and all, in the first and ensuing years, cursed the True One, and decreed that His most holy blood be shed.  Fear God, O Hadi!  Be not willing that men be again afflicted with the vain imaginings of former times.  Fear God, and be not of them that act unjustly.  In these days We have heard that thou hast striven to lay hands on and destroy every copy of the Bayan.  This Wronged One requesteth thee to renounce, for