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106 Prophets and Messengers in every age, and finally martyred them all.

Ponder carefully over this explanation, that the refreshing breeze of Knowledge may blow from the city of the Merciful and cause the soul to reach the garden of Wisdom through the beautiful utterance of the Beloved One. As the heedless people did not understand the meanings of these perfect and eloquent explanations, and, according to their idea, did not find the answer consistent with the question, therefore they attributed lack of knowledge and hallucination to those essences of Knowledge and Reason.

Likewise, in another verse, it is said in condemnation of the people of the age, " Although they had before prayed for assistance against those who believe not, yet when he came unto them whom they had known (to be from God), they would not believe in him; therefore, the curse of God shall be on the infidels" (K. S. 2). That is, this multitude who waged war and fought against the infidels for the sake of God, and who sought victory in order to assist His Cause, when the one whom they had known came unto them, denied him; therefore the curse of God shall be upon the infidels! Consider how it is understood from this verse that the people of the time of his Holiness were the same people who in the days of each former Prophet strove and fought to promulgate the Law and spread the Cause of God, although the people of the time of Jesus and Moses