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"We have invited all men," Baha'u'llah, in another Tablet, has stated, "to turn towards God, and have acquainted them with the Straight Path. They (divines) rose up against Us with such cruelty as hath sapped the strength of Islam, and yet most of the people are heedless!" "The children of Him Who is the Friend of God (Abraham)," He moreover has written, "and heirs of the One Who discoursed with God (Moses), who were accounted the most abject of men, have split the veils asunder, and rent the coverings, and seized the Sealed Wine from the hands of the bounty of Him Who is the Self-Subsisting, and drunk their fill, whilst the detestable Shi'ih divines have remained, until the present time, hesitant and perverse." And again: "The divines of Persia committed that which no people amongst the peoples of the world have committed." (90:1) "If this Cause be of God," He thus addresses the Minister of the Shah in Constantinople, "no man can prevail against it; and if it be not of God, the divines amongst you, and they that follow their corrupt desires, and such as have rebelled against Him, will surely suffice to overpower it." (90:2) "Of all the peoples of the world," He, in another Tablet, observes, "they that have suffered the greatest loss have been, and are still, the people of Persia. I swear by the Daystar of Utterance which shineth upon the world in its meridian glory! The lamentations of the pulpits, in that country, are being raised continually. In the early days such lamentations were heard in the Land of Ta (Tihran), for pulpits, erected for the purpose of remembering the True One - exalted be His glory - have now, in Persia, become places wherefrom blasphemies are uttered against Him Who is the Desire of the worlds."
(90:3)
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