Epistle to the Son of the Wolf — Paragraph 14

Source (Persian)

حال بهتر انکه ان جناب خود را بماء انقطاع که از معين قلم اعلی جاری شده طاهر نمايند و لوجه اللّه در انچه از قبل و بعد ظاهر شده و يا نازل گشته تفکّر کنند و بعد بحکمت و بيان در اخماد نار ضغينه و بغضاء که در قلوب احزاب عالم مکنون است بقدر مقدور ساعی و جاهد شوند * مقصود از ارسال رسل و انزال کتب معرفة اللّه و الفت و اتّحاد عباد بوده * حال ملاحظه ميشود شريعت الهی را سبب و علّت بغضاء و عناد نموده‌اند * زهی حسرت و ندامت که اکثری بما عندهم متمسّک و مشغول و از ما عند اللّه غافل و محجوب *

Translation

Now is the moment in which to cleanse thyself with the waters of detachment that have flowed out from the Supreme Pen, and to ponder, wholly for the sake of God, those things which, time and again, have been sent down or manifested, and then to strive, as much as lieth in thee, to quench, through the power of wisdom and the force of thy utterance, the fire of enmity and hatred which smouldereth in the hearts of the peoples of the world. The Divine Messengers have been sent down, and their Books were revealed, for the purpose of promoting the knowledge of God, and of furthering unity and fellowship amongst men. But now behold, how they have made the Law of God a cause and pretext for perversity and hatred. How pitiful, how regrettable, that most men are cleaving fast to, and have busied themselves with, the things they possess, and are unaware of, and shut out as by a veil from, the things God possesseth!