Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God. What proof did the
Jewish doctors adduce wherewith to condemn Him Who was the Spirit of God (Jesus
Christ), when He came unto them with truth? What could have been the evidence
produced by the Pharisees and the idolatrous priests to justify their denial of
Muhammad, the Apostle of God when He came unto them with a Book that judged
between truth and falsehood with a justice which turned into light the darkness
of the earth, and enraptured the hearts of such as had known Him? Indeed thou
hast produced, in this day, the same proofs which the foolish divines advanced
in that age. Unto this testifieth He Who is the King of the realm of grace in
this great Prison. Thou hast, truly, walked in their ways, nay, hast surpassed
them in their cruelty, and hast deemed thyself to be helping the Faith and
defending the Law of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. By Him Who is the
Truth! Thine iniquity hath made Gabriel to groan, and hath drawn tears from the
Law of God, through which the breezes of justice have been wafted over all who
are in heaven and on earth. Hast thou fondly imagined that the judgment thou
didst pronounce hath profited thee? Nay, by Him Who is the King of all Names!
Unto thy loss testifieth He with Whom is the knowledge of all things as
recorded in the preserved Tablet.
- Baha’u’llah (Excerpt from the Lawh-i-Burhan
[1] quoted by Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to the Son of Wolf’)
[1] Lawh-i-Burhán (Tablet of the Proof) was
revealed after the martyrdom of the King of Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs and
was addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Báqir, denounced by Bahá’u’lláh as the ‘Wolf’.
The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf was addressed to Shaykh Muhammad
Taqíy-i-Najafí, the son of Shaykh Muhammad Báqir.
