It is also recorded in the Gospel according to St. Luke, that on a certain day Jesus passed by a Jew who was sick of the palsy, and lay upon a couch.  When the Jew saw Him, he recognized Him, and cried out for His help.  Jesus said unto him:  “Arise from thy bed; thy sins are forgiven thee.”  Certain of the Jews, standing by, protested saying:  “Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” And immediately He perceived their thoughts, Jesus answering said unto them:  “Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, arise, and take up thy bed, and walk; or to say, thy sins are forgiven thee? that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins."(96) This is the real sovereignty, and such is the power of God’s chosen Ones!  All these things which We have repeatedly mentioned, and the details which We have cited from divers sources, have no other purpose but to enable thee to grasp the meaning of the allusions in the utterances of the chosen Ones of God, lest certain of these utterances cause thy feet to falter and thy heart to be dismayed.

Thus with steadfast steps we may tread the Path of certitude, that perchance the breeze that bloweth from the meads of the good-pleasure of God may waft upon us the sweet savours of divine acceptance, and cause us, vanishing mortals that we are, to attain unto the Kingdom of everlasting glory.  Then wilt thou comprehend the inner meaning of sovereignty and the like, spoken of in the traditions and scriptures.  Furthermore, it is already evident and known unto thee that those things to which the Jews and the Christians have clung, and the cavilings which they heaped upon the Beauty of Muhammad, the same have in this day been upheld by the people of the Qur’an, and been witnessed in their denunciations of the “Point of the Bayan”—­may the souls of all that dwell within the kingdom of divine Revelations be a sacrifice unto Him!  Behold their folly:  they utter the self-same words, uttered by the Jews of old, and know it not!  How well and true are His words concerning them:  “Leave them to entertain themselves with their cavilings!"(97) “As Thou livest, O Muhammad! they are seized by the frenzy of their vain fancies."(98)

When the Unseen, the Eternal, the divine Essence, caused the Day-star of Muhammad to rise above the horizon of knowledge, among the cavils which the Jewish divines raised against Him was that after Moses no Prophet should be sent of God.  Yea, mention hath been made in the scriptures of a Soul Who must needs be made manifest and Who will advance the Faith, and promote the interests of the people, of Moses, so that the Law of the Mosaic Dispensation may encompass the whole earth.  Thus hath the King of eternal glory referred in His Book to the words uttered by those wanderers in the vale of remoteness and error:  “‘The hand of God,’ say the Jews, ’is chained up.’  Chained up be their own hands!  And for that which they have said, they were accursed.  Nay, outstretched are both His hands!"(99) “The hand of God is above their hands."(100)