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178 Manifestation of the True One, and from the Beauty of God, to abide in hell? These things only result from the denial by the religious doctors of the age, and by the divines of the time, of whom Sadik-IbnM ohammed hath said: "The religious doctors of that time will be the most wicked of the divines under the shadow of heaven. Corruption will issue from them and return again unto them."

We beg the doctors and divines of the Beyan not to act in like manner; not to inflict upon the Essence of Divinity, the Supreme Light, the Absolute Eternity, and the Origin and End of the Manifestations of the Invisible, at the time of Mustagath, that which hath been inflicted in this day; not to depend upon intellect, comprehension and learning, nor show hostility toward that Manifestor of Supreme Infinite Knowledges. Yet, notwithstanding all these admonitions, it is seen that a misleading person, who is a chief of the people, will arise with the utmost opposition. Likewise in every city, (people) will arise to suppress that Beauty of Holiness. The companions of that King of Existence and Essence of the 'Desired One will flee to mountains and deserts and conceal themselves from the hand of the oppressors, while some will resign themselves and yield life with entire severance. As already witnessed, one known and reputed for great piety and virtue, whom the people deem it their duty to obey, and to whose command they consider it necessary to submit, will war against that Root of the