A Gift for Baghdad — Page 91
Reply to the Announcement & Letter 91 all goodness and virtue is contained in the Quran. The verities of the Quran are only disclosed to those whom Allah has cleansed and purified with His own hand. I have been living among you for a lifetime, will you not then understand? Say: Therefore, the guidance of Allah alone is True Guidance. And indeed my Lord is with me. He will show me the way. Lord, forgive and send mercy from heaven. O God! I am overcome; do Ye avenge me. O my Lord, my Lord, why have You forsaken me? O ‘Abdul-Q a dir I am with you, I hear and I see. I have planted the tree of My mercy and omnipotence for you with My own hand and today you have with Us a high rank and a position of trust. I am your inevitable support. I am the One who brings you to life. I have breathed into you the Spirit of truth. And I have conferred My own love upon you so that you might be treated well in My presence, like a seed that sends forth its sprout, then it grows stronger until it stands firmly on its stem. We will bestow upon you a manifest victory so that God Almighty may forgive your shortcomings, past and future. Then be of the grateful. Is God not sufficient for His servant? Is not Allah aware of those who are grateful? Allah has accepted His servant and cleared him of what they spoke of him. And he was honourable in the sight of Allah. So when God mani- fested Himself on the mountain, He shattered it into pieces and God Almighty will frustrate the design of the disbelievers, so that We might make him a Sign for the