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In the Name of God, the Most High, the Most Great

Praise be to God Who created the heavens and earth by His command. Then those who deny Our signs shall be gathered unto God their Lord.

We have indeed read the books which were sent down to Us. Say: We are witnesses to all things. Say: Fear God, O people, and work for God apart from the people, for God’s term shall come and all shall be brought before God your Lord.

Say: Know, O people, the truth of what has been sent down to you—these are clear verses from God’s Book for a people who understand. Say: O people from among the companions of Ahmad and then Kazim, the Tree of Sinai speaks among you, yet how do you not believe and are not aware?

Say: Those who do not wish to believe in what God has sent down of verses to Muhammad the Messenger of God have said “We submit,” yet you make yourselves lower than the work of the first and then the second before you, as though you were a people who perceive but do not understand. Say: All that you dispute regarding the days of God returns to the judgment of the Qur’an, and it proves that it is from God, for none in the heavens and earth can produce discourse like what God has revealed in the Qur’an. Woe unto you for what you believe yet do not perceive!

Say: If I wished to abrogate anything, I would be upon the truth and none among you could say “How is this?”, but I do not abrogate a single letter of the religion nor add a letter to it. Rather, I have come confirming what God revealed in the Qur’an. I have conveyed what God permitted me and I fear none among you if you deny God’s verses.

Say: Those who believed in the Qur’an before have no escape except to believe in these verses or to deny what they believed before. Fear God, O people, for God’s Cause is truth just as you speak in God’s knowledge. Say: This Cause is like the decree of God’s Messenger before—it is truth, and God has made the balance a matter which you must believe in and not deny. Fear God, O people, that you may obtain mercy.

Say: The people claim this Cause is like unto the cause of [Shaykh] Ahmad before [Siyyid] Kazim. Nay, by your Lord! If Ahmad were alive it is my Cause that he would attain, while Kazim would not separate from me and would circle around me by God’s leave. God knows all that the people know not.

Say: O Ali, fear God in the days of your Lord, for life in Our presence is true life like the life of paradise. Fear none in your Lord’s path, for when you die you shall enter your Lord’s house among the secure ones. Take the right of the remnant of God from the people and send to Me when I permit you in truth.

Deliver this Book to those who follow Me—among them are those who possess clear wisdom from God. Indeed a single letter of this Book equals not all who are in the heavens and earth.

Say: By my father! Preserve this Book and send greetings upon the one who in the Book sends greetings upon those who follow him. Then say: All praise belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds.