Chapter 56
In the name of the Almighty, my brothers, look at the glory you boast of!
You say: Behold, we have scattered Jehovih’s Faithists to all the places of the earth; they are without a kingdom; they have not one community left to themselves on the whole earth! ||
Do you think Jehovih cannot appropriate them?
Behold, it is true, you have despoiled them, and scattered them abroad.
You have hunted them down in Chine’ya, Vind’yu, Arabin’ya, Par’si’e, Heleste and Uropa.
You have denied them the right to own lands, the right to follow their choice of vocations.
You have denied them justice, and even a hearing, in courts of trial [justice –Ed.].
And your accusation against them was: They do not worship Gods born of woman.
But behold the wisdom of Jehovih; because you thus dispossessed His people, and they were scattered abroad, they have sown the doctrine of the All One over all the earth and in its heavens.
They have been like a leaven, to work in the foundations of mighty kingdoms and empires.
They have given learning [education – Ed.] to all peoples, to show the magnificence of Jehovih’s universe.
Behold, inhabitants of the earth now look upward, and ask: Could there be other worlds? How long has the earth been standing? Could the Creator of billions of worlds, which have stood for billions of years, be so young as any one of these pretended Gods? And would He descend to the earth, and do a work so imperfectly that only one small kingdom heard of Him?