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the omnipotent Avenger? How could they be afflicted
with the scourge of chastisement by the
heavenly King? Above all, how could the flow of
the grace of the All-Bountiful be stayed? How
could the ocean of His tender mercies be stilled?
We take refuge with God, from that which His
creatures have fancied about Him! Exalted is He
above their comprehension!
Dear friend! Now when the light of God's everlasting
Morn is breaking; when the radiance of
His holy words: "God is the light of the heavens
and of the earth" (1) is shedding illumination upon
all mankind; when the inviolability of His tabernacle
is being proclaimed by His sacred utterance:
"God hath willed to perfect His light;" (2) and the
Hand of omnipotence, bearing His testimony: "In
His grasp He holdeth the kingdom of all things,"
is being outstretched unto all the peoples and kindreds
of the earth; it behooveth us to gird up the
loins of endeavour, that haply, by the grace and
bounty of God, we may enter the celestial City:
"Verily, we are God's," and abide within the exalted
habitation: "And unto Him we do return."
