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"When We observed carefully, We discovered that Our enemies are, for the most part, the divines... Among the peoples are those who said: He hath repudiated the divines. Say: Yea, by My Lord! I, in very truth, was the One Who abolished the idols!... O Concourse of divines! Fling away idle fancies and imaginings, and turn, then, towards the Horizon of Certitude." "We have decreed, O people, that the highest and last end of all learning be the recognition of Him Who is the Object of all knowledge; and yet, behold now ye have allowed your learning to shut you out, as by a veil, from Him." "Have ye clung unto the promptings of your nature, and cast behind your backs the statutes of God?... Reflect, and be not of them that have shut themselves out as by a veil from Him, and were of those that are fast asleep." "O Concourse of divines! Ye shall not henceforth behold yourselves possessed of any power, inasmuch as We have seized it from you." (Baha'u'llah). (106:1) Baha'u'llah continually makes plain that "whatever in days gone by hath been the cause of the denial and opposition of those people hath now led to the perversity of the people of this age." and has caused them to dispute "with vain words".. In the past, as today, the divines have not grasped that God has manifested Himself "in conformity with that which He Himself hath purposed, and not according to the desires and expectations of men." Hence Baha'u'llah's admonition: "Say: O leaders of religion! Weigh not the Book of God with such standards and sciences as are current amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring balance established amongst men." "Great is the blessedness," is Baha'u'llah's promise, "of that divine that hath not allowed knowledge to become a veil between him and the One Who is the Object of all knowledge, and who, when the Self-Subsisting appeared, hath turned with a beaming face towards him. He, in truth, is numbered with the learned." And those divines "who are truly adorned with the ornament of knowledge... are, verily, as a head to the body of the world, and a eyes to the nations."
(106:2)
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