28. Part Two — 8

1Another day, Jesus the Son of Mary was surrounded by the Jews. They wished His Holiness to acknowledge having made the claim to Messiahship and Prophethood, in order that they might declare Him infidel and sentence Him to death. Finally they led that Sun of the Heaven of Significances into the presence of Pilate and Caiaphas, the greatest of the doctors of that age. All the divines were present at that meeting and a large multitude assembled for the purpose of beholding, deriding and annoying Him. No matter how much they enquired that perchance they might hear Him acknowledge, His Holiness held His peace nor did He choose to answer. At length a wretch arose and came opposite His Holiness, saying: "I adjure thee, didst thou not say, 'I am the Messiah of God, I am the King of Kings, I am the possessor of a Book and I am the destroyer of the Sabbath day'?" His Holiness, lifting up His blessed head, said: "Dost thou not see that verily the Son of Man is seated upon the right hand of power and might?" This He said, although no accessories of power were outwardly found with Him, but an inward Power which pervaded all in the heavens and earth. No need to relate what they inflicted upon Him and how they dealt with Him after this saying. Finally they so designed to persecute and destroy Him that He took His flight to the fourth Heaven.

2It is also recorded in the Gospel of Luke that another day His Holiness passed by one of the Jews who was afflicted with palsy and laid upon a couch. When he saw His Holiness, he recognized Him by His appearance and began to entreat. His Holiness said, "Arise from thy bed; verily thy sins are forgiven." Several Jews who were present at that place began to murmur, saying, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?" Then Christ perceived their thoughts and said: "Whether is easier to say arise, take up thy bed, or to say thy sins be forgiven thee? But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon earth to forgive sins," etc., etc. (Luke v. 23). This is the real Sovereignty and Power of the Holy Ones of God. By all these statements repeatedly cited from different places and instances it is intended that ye may be informed of the interpretations of the words of the Chosen Ones of God that perchance the foot may not slip and the heart may not be troubled by certain statements.

3Thus we may enter into the path of Certain Knowledge, with the step of assurance, that perchance the breeze of Good-Pleasure may blow forth from the Rizwan of the Divine Acceptance and enable these mortal ones to reach the Everlasting Kingdom. Then thou wilt understand the meanings of sovereignty and the like, spoken of in traditions and verses. It is already evident and known to your Honor that exactly the same thing to which the Jews and Christians clung in contradicting the Mohammedic Beauty, is in this day held by the people of the Koran in denying the "Point of the Beyan" (may the lives of all in the Kingdom of Command be a sacrifice to Him!). Behold these senseless men who to-day speak the word of the Jews and are not conscious thereof! How excellent is His revelation concerning them "Leave them to amuse themselves with their vain discourse" (K. S. 6). And, "As thou livest they wander in their folly" (K. S. 15).

4When the Eternal Unseen and the Essence of Divinity caused the Mohammedic Sun to shine forth from the horizon of Knowledge and Significances, one of the objections of the Jewish doctors was that after Moses no Prophet should arise. Yea, it is recorded in the Book that a Face should appear to promulgate His (Moses) religion and creed until the Law written in the Pentateuch should encompass all the earth. Therefore the King of Unity relates of these exhausted ones in the valley of remoteness and error—"The Jews say, the hand of God is tied up. Their (own) hands shall be tied up and they became cursed for that which they have said. Nay, His Hands are both stretched forth" (K. S. 5). The translation of this is The Jews said the hands of God are tied up. May their own hands be tied up! Cursed they became for their false accusation. Nay, the hands of the Divine power are always outstretched and protecting. " The Hand of God is above their hands" (K. S. 48).