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And now we have arrived at our time, the present, and I ask your further indulgence. If you approach the opinions here expressed with impatience, pride or intolerance, if you refuse to suspend judgment until an open heart, a searching reason, and fair investigation are the basis of your eventual decision, your will have acted in haste (80:6) If what follows, you find - after fair deliberation - to be a hoax, in investigating it you will have wasted but a little time, and perhaps learned how to save others from such a cruel deception. If, however, you presume, ahead of time, to know the secrets of God's inscrutable wisdom, and therefore fail to investigate, is it not possible that you will have made the same mistake as those gone before us? After all, are we not all subject to error?
(80:7)
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