Arba'in — Page 177
Number Four 177 is it, that all these testimonies have been discarded as rubbish merely out of malice for me without any regard whatsoever for the Holy Word of God! I cannot understand what kind of hon- esty it is that they do not avail of any proof that is presented to them, and they repeatedly present objections that have been rebutted a hundred times, and which do not only apply to my own self—if indeed the nitpicking criticisms they utter against me can even be called objections—but they also apply to all the Prophets of God. Whatever is being said about me has all been said before. Alas! These people fail to reflect that if this enterprise had not been from God, then why was its foundation laid right at the head of the century! Furthermore, no one could say that while you are a liar, such and such a man is truthful. Alas! These people fail to understand that if the Promised Mahdi was not present, then for whom did the heavens manifest the miracle of the solar and lunar eclipses! It is also a pity that they fail to see that this claim is not untimely. Islam was pleading for help with both its hands outstretched, crying, ‘I am the victim of oppression—now is the time that I be helped from the heavens!’ The hearts had indeed begun to cry out even in the thirteenth century that the aid and assistance of God would most certainly come in the fourteenth century. Multitudes now lie asleep in their graves who had wailed and wept for the arrival of this century. Yet when a man was sent by God, they became his enemies simply out of the opinion that he did not accept every belief of the contem- porary maulaw i s. Nonetheless, every ambassador of God who is sent invariably