107 Rememberest thou not God’s warning uttered in times past, that thou mayest be of them that heed His warning?  He said, and He, verily, speaketh the truth:  “From it (earth) have We created you, and unto it will We return you, and out of it will We bring you forth a second time."(108) This is what God ordained unto all them that dwell on earth, be they high or low.  It behoveth not, therefore, him who was created from dust, who will return unto it, and will again be brought forth out of it, to swell with pride before God, and before His loved ones, to proudly scorn them, and be filled with disdainful arrogance.  Nay, rather it behoveth thee and those like thee to submit yourselves to them Who are the Manifestations of the unity of God, and to defer humbly to the faithful, who have forsaken their all for the sake of God, and have detached themselves from the things which engross men’s attention, and lead them astray from the path of God, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised.  Thus do We send down upon you that which shall profit you and profit them that have placed their whole trust and confidence in their Lord.

108 O ye divines of the City!  We came to you with the truth, whilst ye were heedless of it.  Methinks ye are as dead, wrapt in the coverings of your own selves.  Ye sought not Our presence, when so to do would have been better for you than all your doings.  Know ye that the Sun of vicegerency hath dawned in all truth, and yet ye have turned away therefrom.  The Moon of guidance hath risen high in the midmost heaven, and yet ye remain veiled therefrom.  The Star of divine bounty hath shone forth above the horizon of eternal holiness, and yet ye have strayed far therefrom.

109 Know ye, that had your leaders, to whom ye owe allegiance, and on whom ye pride yourselves, and whom ye mention by day and by night, and from whose traces ye seek guidance—­had they lived in these days, they would have circled around Me, and would not have separated themselves from Me, whether at eventide or at morn.  Ye, however, did not turn your faces towards My face, for even less than a moment, and waxed proud, and were careless of this Wronged One, Who hath been so afflicted by men that they dealt with Him as they pleased.  Ye failed to inquire about My condition, nor did ye inform yourselves of the things which befell Me.  Thereby have ye withheld from yourselves the winds of holiness, and the breezes of bounty, that blow from this luminous and perspicuous Spot.

110 Methinks ye have clung to outward things, and forgotten the inner things, and say that which ye do not.  Ye are lovers of names, and appear to have given yourselves up to them.  For this reason make ye mention of the names of your leaders.  And should anyone like them, or superior unto them, come unto you, ye would flee him.  Through their names ye have exalted yourselves, and have secured your positions, and live and prosper.  And were your leaders to reappear, ye would not renounce your leadership, nor would ye turn in their direction, nor set your faces towards them.