| Kitáb-i-Íqán | 135 |
and scriptures. Furthermore, it is already
evident and known unto thee that those things to
which the Jews and the Christians have clung, and
the cavilings which they heaped upon the Beauty
of Muhammad, the same have in this day been upheld
by the people of the Qur'án, and been witnessed
in their denunciations of the "Point of the
&Bayan"--may the souls of all that dwell within
the kingdom of divine Revelations be a sacrifice
unto Him! Behold their folly: they utter the self-same
words, uttered by the Jews of old, and know
it not! How well and true are His words concerning
them: "Leave them to entertain themselves
with their cavilings!" (1) "As Thou livest, O Muhammad!
they are seized by the frenzy of their
vain fancies." (2)
When the Unseen, the Eternal, the divine Essence,
caused the Day-star of Muhammad to rise
above the horizon of knowledge, among the cavils
which the Jewish divines raised against Him was
that after Moses no Prophet should be sent of God.
Yea, mention hath been made in the scriptures of
a Soul Who must needs be made manifest and Who
