It must be evident, therefore, how intense was the grief which this act inflicted upon this Wronged One.  Later on, she threw in her lot with Mirza Yahya.  Conflicting reports concerning her are now reaching Us, nor is it clear what she is saying or doing.  We beseech God—­blessed and glorified be He—­to cause her to turn unto Him, and aid her to repent before the door of His grace.  He, verily, is the Mighty, the Forgiving; and He is, in truth, the All-Powerful, the Pardoner.

In another connection He, likewise, saith:  “Were He to appear this very moment, I would be the first to adore Him, and the first to bow down before Him.”  Be fair, O people!  The purpose of the Most Exalted One (the Bab) was to insure that the proximity of the Revelation should not withhold men from the Divine and everlasting Law, even as the companions of John (the Baptist) were prevented from acknowledging Him Who is the Spirit (Jesus).  Time and again He hath said:  “Suffer not the Bayan and all that hath been revealed therein to withhold you from that Essence of Being and Lord of the visible and invisible.”  Should any one, considering this binding injunction, cling unto the Bayan, such a one hath, verily, passed out of the shadow of the blessed and exalted Tree.  Be fair, O people, and be not of the heedless.

And likewise, He saith:  “Let not names shut you out as by a veil from Him Who is their Lord, even the name of Prophet, for such a name is but a creation of His utterance.”  And likewise, He, in the seventh chapter of the second Vahid, saith:  “O people of the Bayan!  Act not as the people of the Qur’an have acted, for if ye do so, the fruits of your night will come to naught.”  And further, He saith—­glorified be His mention:  “If thou attainest unto His Revelation, and obeyest Him, thou wilt have revealed the fruit of the Bayan; if not, thou art unworthy of mention before God.  Take pity upon thyself.  If thou aidest not Him Who is the Manifestation of the Lordship of God, be not, then, a cause of sadness unto Him.”  And further He saith—­magnified be His station:  “If thou attainest not unto the Presence of God, grieve not, then, the Sign of God.  Ye will renounce that which can profit them that acknowledge the Bayan, if ye renounce that which can harm Him.  I know, however, that ye will refuse to do so.”

O Hadi!  Methinks it is by reason of these indubitable utterances that thou hast determined to blot out the Bayan.  Give ear unto the voice of this Wronged One, and renounce this oppression that hath made the pillars of the Bayan to tremble.  I have been neither in Chihriq nor in Mah-Ku.  At the present time statements have been circulated among thy disciples identical with those made by the Shi’ihs who have said that the Qur’an is unfinished.  These people also contend that this Bayan is not the original one.  The copy in the handwriting of Siyyid Husayn is extant, as is also the copy in the handwriting of Mirza Ahmad.