BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

446 Baháâuâlláh and the New EraWhat crime have the women, children and suffering babescommitted to merit thy wrath, oppression and hate? You havepersecuted a number of souls who have shown no oppositionin your country, and who have instigated no revolution againstthe government; nay, rather, by day and by night they havebeen peacefully engaged in the mentioning of God. You havepillaged their properties, and through your tyrannical acts, allthat they had was taken from them.... Before God, a handfulof dust is greater than your kingdom, glory, sovereignty anddominion, and should He desire, He would scatter you as thesand of the desert. Erelong His wrath shall overtake you,revolutions shall appear in your midst and your countries willbe divided! Then you will weep and lament and nowhere willyou find help and protection. ... Be ye watchful, for the wrathof God is prepared, and erelong you shall behold that whichis written by the Pen of Command.And to ‘Alí Páshá He wrote:—Thou hast, O Chief, committed that which hath madeMu%ammad, the Apostle of God, groan in the Most ExaltedParadise. The world hath made thee proud, so much so thatthou hast turned away from the Face through Whose brightnessthe Concourse on high hath been illumined. Soon thoushalt find thyself in evident loss. Thou didst unite with theRuler of Persia for doing Me harm, although I had cometo you from the Dawning-place of the Almighty, the Great,with a Cause which refreshed the eyes of the favored ones ofGod....Didst thou think that thou could put out the fire which Godhath enkindled in the Universe? No! I declare by His TrueSoul, wert thou of those who understand. More than that, bywhat thou hast done its blaze and flame have been increased.Soon it will encompass the world and its inhabitants.... Theday is approaching when the Land of Mystery (Adrianople)and what is beside it shall be changed, and shall pass out