Days of Remembrance
Martyrdom of the Báb
nity and who will delight at every moment in a joy and gladness born of God.
11No Prophet have We ever raised up except that He was repudiated by the
divines whilst they prided themselves in their learning, even as they do in this day. Say: O concourse of divines! Do ye worship the Calf and abandon the One Who hath created you and taught you that which ye knew not?
12O people of the earth! Ponder the state of these workers of iniquity, what they have wrought in the past, and what they pursue in this day. Say: If He Who hath come unto you with clear verses be not the True One from God, even as ye proclaim this day from your seats of worldly honour, then by what proof can ye establish the truth of
Muḥammad, Whom we sent aforetime? Be fair in your judgement, O concourse of ill-wishers!
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Excerpt from the Súriy-i-Mulúk
(Súrih of the Kings)
1Dost thou imagine, O Minister of the
Sháh in the City
31 that I hold within My grasp the ultimate destiny of the Cause of God? Thinkest thou that My imprisonment, or the shame I have been made to suffer, or even My death and utter annihilation, can deflect its course? Wretched is what thou hast imagined in thine heart! Thou art indeed of them that walk after the vain imaginings which their hearts devise. No God is there but Him. Powerful is He to manifest His Cause, and to exalt His testimony, and to establish whatsoever is His Will, and to elevate it to so eminent a position that neither thine own hands, nor the hands of
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