knowledgment of this tradition, these divines, who are still in uncertainty and doubt regarding religious questions, nevertheless claim knowledge of the abstruse questions of Divine principles and the essential mysteries of the Words of Holiness. They assert that such and such a tradition which is one of the signs of the appearance of Gha'im (Mahdi), is not yet fulfilled, while they have not apprehended a scent of the meanings of traditions; unconscious that all the signs have appeared, that the "bridge of the Command" is extended and that the faithful are crossing it with the swiftness of lightning; while they are still expecting the appearance of the signs. Say, O Concourse of the ignorant, await ye, even as those before ye are awaiting!
Were one to question them concerning the fact that among the signs of the manifestation of subsequent Prophets recorded in the verses of former Books, some relate to the appearance and rise of the Mohammedic Sun already mentioned; and as none of these signs hath literally come to pass, therefore by what proof and argument do they reject the Christians and similar nations, and declare them as infidels? finding themselves unable to answer, they cling to this, that these Books have been interpolated and that they are not and have not been from God; although the words of the verse testify to its being from God. The tenor of this same verse is also in the Koran; were ye of those who know! Truly I say, during
