الموسومة بالموعظة
I have placed my trust in Him whose existence the doubters and atheists deny, and thanked His servant, the Qāʾim of Truth, whom the rebellious apostates oppose.
From the servant tested by the devils of religion and the tyrants of successive ages, to all those who have adopted the designation of tawḥīd in this region and to all those in the horizons and distant lands who have perceived the winds of Resurrection and escaped injustice, vanity, and arrogance. Peace upon whoever hears and sees, and upon the pure and unitarian people of Truth who hear the admonition of the Caller to Truth and follow the signs of transcendence and divine uniqueness belonging to our Lord, the God al-Ḥākim, the Mighty, and seek refuge in the protection of His Guardian, the Qāʾim of Truth, the guide to the abode of permanence.
Know, distinguished believing brothers and saved community of Unitarians—may God make the attainment of substantial virtues easy for you and spare you the accidents of bodily maladies and the afflictions that mislead belief—that these signs of Resurrection and its judgments oblige the souls of the true, pure, and sincere Unitarian friends of God to practise mutual assistance, concord, alliance, and brotherhood.
Through their union with the honor of known wisdom, they can acquire the lofty virtues, noble character, and care for one another. Wisdom prevents them from approving of vices, and diminishes in their eyes the worth of the transitory pleasures of this world. It also turns them away from scrambling after those passing pleasures.
If you encounter someone claiming to possess religion while departing from these qualities, associating with people of immorality, covenant-breaking, apostasy, and deviation, and lying against his brethren, going beyond justice and fairness into wrongdoing and oppression, know that his soul is displaying the character of others like himself and revealing the beliefs of those whose company he has chosen.
If one who belongs to your community shows any of these qualities, first admonish and counsel him. If he persists in his conduct, blame him and rebuke him. If his foolishness and obstinacy continue, avoid his company. If he remains in error, repudiate him and put him apart from you.
I speak the truth: this is how the souls of people of error and misguidance behave. They conspire together and become allies in apostasy, frivolity, and deviation, mingling with one another in character, speech, and conduct.
Take advantage, pure brethren, of the admonitions of a sincere, affectionate, and compassionate adviser. Do not approve the disgraceful acts of pretenders or attach them to true religion. The time remaining for delay has grown short. You have already harvested what was in your hearts, whether it was stubborn resistance, hesitation, shrinking back, or neglect of the obedience owed to the Guardian of Truth. I have dealt fairly with you and with all nations by what I sent in explanation, included in the Epistle of Distinction (Risālat al-Tamyīz). May God multiply the discernment of the people of Truth and turn the deficient among them back toward Him; that is not difficult for God.
Praise belongs to God, exalted beyond the representations that minds suppose, after their intentions have been illuminated and the signs of their secrets disclosed. Peace upon His Guardian, the Qāʾim of religion, who appoints the measures of successive ages in their differences and repetitions, and who gives every community its appointed term once the proofs have been established against its members, by the All-Sufficient One who directs their return and departure.
My sufficiency is my trust in the One who stands over every soul according to what it has earned, in the abode of return, after its confinement and rejection.
Written on Saturday, the fourth day of Jumādā I, in the twenty-first year of the Qāʾim of the Age and Lord of the abode of the Hereafter.
Completed. Praise belongs to our Lord alone, and thanks to the Qāʾim of Truth, His servant.