Arba'in — Page 87
Number Three 87 will be with me. Should you conceal the evidence, then it may be close at hand that [even] stones will testify for me. Therefore, be not unjust to your own selves. The faces of those who lie against God are different from those of the truthful. God never leaves any matter undecided. I curse the life that consists of lies and fabrication and I also curse the condition in which—out of fear of God’s creation— one tries to sidestep an obligation commanded by the Creator. Even if the sun from one side and the earth from the other come together to crush me, it is absolutely impossible for me to delay the service entrusted to me at the precise moment [of need] by the Omnipotent Lord and for which I was undoubtedly brought into being. What is man but a mere insect, and what is a mortal but a mere lump of flesh! Hence, why would I put off the command of ّوم ي حي ّ ق [ H ayyun-Qayy u mun —the Ever-Living, Self-Subsisting, and All-Sustaining God] for the sake of a mere insect or a lump of flesh? Just as God had one day settled the issue between His previous Appointees and their accusers, so shall He settle the issue at this time as well. There is a season for the coming of God’s Appointees, and a season for them to leave. So, rest assured that I neither came out of season, nor will I leave out of season. Do not fight with God. It is not within your capacity to destroy me. Now, my intention behind this announcement is that just as God has completed His argument against the opponents by showing other Signs, I want the argument concerning the verse