O My Supreme Pen! Leave Thou the mention of the Wolf, and
call Thou to remembrance the She-Serpent [The Imám-Jum’ih of Isfáhán] whose
cruelty hath caused all created things to groan, and the limbs of the holy ones
to quake. Thus biddeth Thee the Lord of all names, in this glorious station.
The Chaste One [Fátimih] hath cried out by reason of thine iniquity, and yet
thou dost imagine thyself to be of the family of the Apostle of God! Thus hath
thy soul prompted thee, O thou who hast withdrawn thyself from God, the Lord of
all that hath been and shall be. Judge thou equitably, O She-Serpent! For what
crime didst thou sting the children [The King of Martyrs and the Beloved of
Martyrs] of the Apostle of God, and pillage their possessions? Hast thou denied
Him Who created thee by His command ‘be, and it was’? Thou hast dealt with the
children of the Apostle of God as neither ‘Ád hath dealt with Húd, nor Thámúd
with Sáliḥ, nor the Jews with the Spirit of God, [Jesus] the Lord of all being.
Gainsayest thou the signs of thy Lord which no sooner were sent down from the
heaven of His Cause than all the books of the world bowed down before them?
Meditate, that thou mayest be made aware of thine act, O heedless outcast! Ere
long will the breaths of chastisement seize thee, as they seized others before
thee. Wait, O thou who hast joined partners with God, the Lord of the visible
and the invisible.
- Baha’u’llah (From the Tablet addressed to Shaykh Muhammad
Báqir, denounced by Bahá’u’lláh as the ‘Wolf’; Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed
after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
