By God!  Troubles have failed to unnerve Me, and the repudiation of the divines hath been powerless to weaken Me.  I have spoken, and still speak forth before the face of men:  ’The door of grace hath been unlocked and He Who is the Dayspring of Justice is come with perspicuous signs and evident testimonies, from God, the Lord of strength and of might!’ Present thyself before Me that thou mayest hear the mysteries which were heard by the Son of ’Imran(73) upon the Sinai of Wisdom.  Thus commandeth thee He Who is the Dawning-Place of the Revelation of thy Lord, the God of Mercy, from His great Prison.

Hath leadership made thee proud?  Peruse thou what God hath revealed to the Sovereign ruler, the Sultan of Turkey, who hath incarcerated Me in this fortified stronghold, so that thou mayest be informed of the condition of this Wronged One, as decreed by God, the One, the Single, the All-Informed.  Art thou happy to see the abject and worthless as thy followers?  They support thee as did a people before them, they that followed Annas, who, without clear proof and testimony, pronounced judgement against the Spirit.(74)

Peruse thou the Kitab-i-Iqan and that which the All-Merciful hath sent down unto the King of Paris(75) 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 divines!  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 concourse of divines, the things ye have composed with the pens of your idle fancies and vain imaginings.  By God!  The Day-Star of Knowledge hath shone forth above the horizon of certitude.

O Baqir!  Read and call thou to mind that which was said of old by a believer of thy stock:  ’Will ye slay a man because he saith my Lord is God, when He hath already come to you with signs from your Lord?  If he be a liar, on him will be his lie, but if he be a man of truth, part of what he threateneth will fall upon you.  In truth God guideth not him who is a transgressor, a liar.’(76)