Ṣubḥ-i-Azal on the 13th Gate of the Ninth Unity of the Bayān (from mutammim’ul-bayān/the Continuation of the Persian Bayān) (Translation and original Persian)
The 13 th Gate of the Ninth Unity Concerning this, that you must absolutely never ever rend/destroy ( takhriqanna ) any book. The quintessence of this Gate is this: that no matter has been graver than that a human being should step outside the bounds of their own modesty and dignity—just as has been witnessed in this Manifestation from certain adherents of the religion of the Furqān [i.e. Islam]: those who labored for years in religion, deemed themselves arbiters in the presence of God, yet issued verdicts against the very Soul of Reality, tore apart with their own hands His Book—which had been revealed from the Tongue of Truth—and rendered judgments without right. This has been observed from some among them—indeed, even from their lowest ranks. And this occurred only because their highest figures set this mode of conduct into motion, such that the lower, through the baseness of their own lowness, propagated that unloved act among the servants. And h...