Kitab-i-Iqan/Page6/GPT4 117

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At this time, I mention a verse which if you open your insightful eye, you would lament and mourn for the oppression of that Holy Personage for as long as you live. The verse was revealed at a time when that Holy Personage, due to the severity of afflictions and the people's aversion, was utterly depressed and desolate. Gabriel descended from the lote tree of the utmost boundary and recited this verse: "And if their aversion is hard on you, then if you can seek a tunnel in the ground or a ladder to the sky." The translation is that if the aversion of the averters is heavy upon you and the turning away of the hypocrites and their harm is difficult for you, then if you can, seek a tunnel in the ground or a ladder to the sky, implying that there is no solution and they will not let you be unless you hide underground or flee to the sky.