In that same year [year 1260] I dispatched a messenger and a
book unto thee [Muhammad Shah], that thou mightest act towards the Cause of Him
Who is the Testimony of God as befitteth the station of thy sovereignty. But
inasmuch as dark, dreadful and dire calamity had been irrevocably ordained by
the Will of God, the book was not submitted to thy presence, through the
intervention of such as regard themselves the well-wishers of the government.
Up to the present, when nearly four years have passed, they have not duly
presented it to Your Majesty. However, now that the fateful hour is drawing
nigh, and because it is a matter of faith, not a worldly concern, therefore I
have given thee a glimpse of what hath transpired.
- The Báb
(‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
