instruction in belief to other works this age. In numerous letters he has rejected their respect and praise for his person, saying: "I am your companion in receiving instruction from the Qur'an. These sacred truths have been bestowed on me firstly because I am the most needy for them and the most indigent. I hold no rank. I am not fond of myself, and I don't like those who like me. My brothers, I don't advertise my secret faults so as not to lose you altogether." He has made the dissemination of the truths of belief his sole aim in life. He has renounced all worldly advantages for that service.

Even the most unscrupulous would refrain from making the accusations the so-called experts' committee levelled at our Master, whose whole life without exception testifies to the above facts. They even cited as evidence their suggestion that he was attempting to arrogate unwarranted power to himself by using the word "imparted (ihtar)" in the title "An Important Matter Imparted to Me on the Night of Power" in the work, A Guide for Youth, while completely disregarding the vital truth it was explaining. Whereas the comprehensiveness inferred by the word may be understood by reading and understanding that truth. The following is part of the piece:

"Because of the extreme tyranny and despotism of this last World War and its merciless destruction, and hundreds of innocents being scattered and ruined on account of a single enemy, and the awesome despair of the defeated, and the fearsome alarm of the victors and their ghastly pangs of conscience arising from the supremacy they are unable to maintain and the destruction they are unable to repair, and the utter transitoriness and ephemerality of the life of this world and the deceptive, opiate nature of the fantasies of civilization becoming apparent to all, and the exalted abilities lodged in human nature and the human essence being wounded in a universal and awesome manner, and man's innate love and desire for immortality being aroused and awakened, and heedlessness and misguidance and deaf, lifeless nature being smashed by the diamond sword of the Qur'an, and the exceedingly ugly, exceedingly cruel true face of world politics becoming apparent, which is the widest and most suffocating and deceptive cover for heedlessness and misguidance, most certainly and without any shadow of a doubt, since the life of this world — which is the metaphorical beloved of mankind — is thus ugly and transient, man's true nature will search with all its strength for eternal life, which it truly loves and yearns for ... so long as humankind does not altogether lose its mind and a material or immaterial doomsday does not erupt over its head, the broad masses and great states in the world will search out the Qur'an of Miraculous Exposition, and having grasped its truths, will embrace it with all their lives and spirits, just as