Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 43
Details of My Statement in Brief 43 manifest signs. There is no comparison between you and medi- cine, which is indeed worth no more than a gnat. You are the one that attracts the hearts, removes the anxieties, sends down tran- quillity, and is like the ark [of Noah]. Blessed are the pages that mirror you, and how wonderful are the quills that served to put you in writing. At the time of every need, your scriptures spread before us their pages in a most profound manner as if they were fruits or chaste maidens. ’ In short, whatever I have found, I have found it through the revelation of the Gracious God. Through the whip [of revelation] I took my exhausted mount towards my enemies. Verily, human designs cannot confront the revelation of the Gracious God; and if there is a contest, then the divine revelation shall triumph and uproot the human designs. Have you not seen how our Lord dealt with the disputers? Did He not cause those who resorted to inoc- ulation among them to be condemned by their people? And, did He not honour us by bestowing upon us a manifest victory? You have heard how, on account of inoculation, people have received sorrow instead of comfort, disease instead of health, death instead of life, and darkness instead of light and how the inoculation continued to imperil them and kept transferring them from their place of leisure to the place of death, so much so that they feared for their lives and became dumbfounded. They were driven out of their homes and those who devised these cures incurred the wrath of the people. The inoculation, in an instant, turned them into the dead and they were left scattered here and there. And, those who did not die became afflicted with certain other ailments and were rendered like animals. The plague neither spared the young nor the old. Thus those who sought to evade the inoculation; they