Finally, He had unequivocally
prophesied: “Today the Bayán is in the stage of seed; at the beginning of
the manifestation of Him Whom God shall make manifest its ultimate
perfection will become apparent.” “Ere nine will have elapsed from the
inception of this Cause the realities of the created things will not be
made manifest. All that thou hast as yet seen is but the stage from the
moist-germ until We clothed it with flesh. Be patient until thou beholdest
a new creation. Say: Blessed, therefore, be God, the Most Excellent of
Makers!”
“He around Whom the Point of the Bayán (Báb) hath revolved is come” is
Bahá’u’lláh’s confirmatory testimony to the inconceivable greatness and
preeminent character of His own Revelation. “If all who are in heaven and
on earth,” He moreover affirms, “be invested in this day with the powers
and attributes destined for the Letters of the Bayán, whose station is ten
thousand times more glorious than that of the Letters of the Qur’ánic
Dispensation, and if they one and all should, swift as the twinkling of an
eye, hesitate to recognize My Revelation, they shall be accounted, in the
sight of God, of those that have gone astray, and regarded as ‘Letters of
Negation.’” “Powerful is He, the King of Divine might,” He, alluding to
Himself in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, asserts, “to extinguish with one letter of
His wondrous words, the breath of life in the whole of the Bayán and the
people thereof, and with one letter bestow upon them a new and everlasting
life, and cause them to arise and speed out of the sepulchers of their
vain and selfish desires.” “This,” He furthermore declares, “is the king
of days,” the “Day of God Himself,” the “Day which shall never be followed
by night,” the “Springtime which autumn will never overtake,” “the eye to
past ages and centuries,” for which “the soul of every Prophet of God, of
every Divine Messenger, hath thirsted,” for which “all the divers kindreds
of the earth have yearned,” through which “God hath proved the hearts of
the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets, and beyond them those
that stand guard over His sacred and inviolable Sanctuary, the inmates of
the Celestial Pavilion and dwellers of the Tabernacle of Glory.” “In this
most mighty Revelation,” He moreover, states, “all the Dispensations of
the past have attained their highest, their final consummation.” And
again: “None among the Manifestations of old, except to a prescribed
degree, hath ever completely apprehended the nature of this Revelation.”
Referring to His own station He declares: “But for Him no Divine Messenger
would have been invested with the Robe of Prophethood, nor would any of
the sacred Scriptures have been revealed.”
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