Kitáb-i-Íqán | 88 |
The same may be witnessed today. Consider how abundant are the denunciations written by the foolish divines of this age against this most wondrous Cause! How vain their imaginings that these calumnies are in conformity with the verses of God's sacred Book, and in consonance with the utterances of men of discernment!
Our purpose in relating these things is to warn
you that were they to maintain that those verses
wherein the signs referred to in the Gospel are
mentioned have been perverted, were they to reject
them, and cling instead to other verses and traditions,
you should know that their words were
utter falsehood and sheer calumny. Yea "corruption"
of the text, in the sense We have referred to,
hath been actually effected in particular instances.
A few of these We have mentioned, that it may
become manifest to every discerning observer that
unto a few untutored holy Men hath been given
the mastery of human learning, so that the malevolent