In sooth, there will be found in those regions certain
persons like the Pharisees of the time of Christ, who, night and day, will
exert themselves with all heart and soul to cast forth doubts, in order that
they may deprive the souls of the glad-tidings of the Holy Spirit. They will
disseminate false rumors and utter many a calumny and will publish and announce
(false) stories. They will undertake all these only for the sake of earthly
vanities.
And some Pharisees among the missionaries of the Gospel will
hasten thither from Persia and say, “We are aware of the secret of the matter.”
All they may say is sheer slander.
Now know you these [things], that in its time you may dispel
and annihilate the darkness of those suspicions, like unto a manifest light. I
beg of God that He may grant thee a power that thou mayest resist all in the
earth—how much more these weak, hired individuals who receive salary and bribe
for spreading such calumnies!
Be ye admonished, O possessors of understanding!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
