A Gift for Baghdad — Page 65
Reply to the Announcement & Letter 65 have passed away? Shall we accept your statement and repudiate the statement of the most veracious teacher? O righteous sheikh! Do not deny the Signs of Allah. Do not repudiate His blessings after their descent and do not be con- temptuous towards His appointed ones. Those illumined with the light of their Lord do not fear anyone except Allah. So, do not call any of them timorous or humiliated. Do not fight with Allah nor become emboldened against the Lord of heaven and earth. Do not follow conjectures of whose true reality you are igno- rant; for, conjecture cannot stand against truth. The truth will ultimately become manifest, and then you will be among the remorseful. If I am a liar, then the penalty of my lie will be upon me, but if I am truthful, Allah will support me and demonstrate to all creation my truth and my light. Allah does not cause His truthful servants to come to naught. Like myself, many of the Auliy a ’, Aq ta b, and Imams1 had been accused of disbelief. Some of them were even crucified and slain and some of them were driven from their homelands and dwellings and persecuted until the help of Allah came to them. Thus, they did not perish, nor were they unsuccessful. Allah aug- mented them with His blessing and might. He made many hearts incline towards them and caused the effects of their blessings to reach subsequent generations. In a similar manner, my Lord gave me glad tidings and said: 1. In this context, the term refers to the Imam of the Age, the one for whose spiritual training God Almighty Himself assumes charge. [Publisher]