LIX: EVERY UNBIASED OBSERVER WILL READILY ADMIT...


Every unbiased observer will readily admit that, ever since the dawn of
His Revelation, this wronged One hath invited all mankind to turn their
faces towards the Day Spring of Glory, and hath forbidden corruption,
hatred, oppression, and wickedness. And yet, behold what the hand of the
oppressor hath wrought! No pen dare describe his tyranny. Though the
purpose of Him Who is the Eternal Truth hath been to confer everlasting
life upon all men, and ensure their security and peace, yet witness how
they have arisen to shed the blood of His loved ones, and have pronounced
on Him the sentence of death.

The instigators of this oppression are those very persons who, though so
foolish, are reputed the wisest of the wise. Such is their blindness that,
with unfeigned severity, they have cast into this fortified and afflictive
Prison Him, for the servants of Whose Threshold the world hath been
created. The Almighty, however, in spite of them and those that have
repudiated the truth of this “Great Announcement,” hath transformed this
Prison House into the Most Exalted Paradise, the Heaven of Heavens.

We did not refuse such material benefits as could relieve Us from Our
afflictions. Every one of Our companions, however, will bear Us witness
that Our holy court is sanctified from, and far above, such material
benefits. We have nevertheless accepted, while confined in this Prison,
those things of which the infidels have striven to deprive Us. If a man be
found willing to rear, in Our name, an edifice of pure gold or silver, or