“The Bayán,” the Báb in that Book, referring to the Promised One, affirms,
“is, from beginning to end, the repository of all of His attributes, and
the treasury of both His fire and His light.” “If thou attainest unto His
Revelation,” He, in another connection declares, “and obeyest Him, thou
wilt have revealed the fruit of the Bayán; if not, thou art unworthy of
mention before God.” “O people of the Bayán!” He, in that same Book, thus
warns the entire company of His followers, “act not as the people of the
Qur’án have acted, for if ye do so, the fruits of your night will come to
naught.” “Suffer not the Bayán,” is His emphatic injunction, “and all that
hath been revealed therein to withhold you from that Essence of Being and
Lord of the visible and invisible.” “Beware, beware,” is His significant
warning addressed to Vahíd, “lest in the days of His Revelation the Vahíd
of the Bayán (eighteen Letters of the Living and the Báb) shut thee out as
by a veil from Him, inasmuch as this Vahíd is but a creature in His
sight.” And again: “O congregation of the Bayán, and all who are therein!
Recognize ye the limits imposed upon you, for such a One as the Point of
the Bayán Himself hath believed in Him Whom God shall make manifest before
all things were created. Therein, verily, do I glory before all who are in
the kingdom of heaven and earth.”
“In the year nine,” He, referring to the date of the advent of the
promised Revelation, has explicitly written, “ye shall attain unto all
good.” “In the year nine, ye will attain unto the presence of God.” And
again: “After Ḥin (68) a Cause shall be given unto you which ye shall come
to know.” “Ere nine will have elapsed from the inception of this Cause,”
He more particularly has stated, “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!’” “Wait thou,” is His statement to Aẓím, “until nine
will have elapsed from the time of the Bayán. Then exclaim: ‘Blessed,
therefore, be God, the most excellent of Makers!’” “Be attentive,” He,
referring in a remarkable passage to the year nineteen, has admonished,
“from the inception of the Revelation till the number of Vahíd (19).” “The
Lord of the Day of Reckoning,” He, even more explicitly, has stated, “will
be manifested at the end of Vahíd (19) and the beginning of eighty (1280
A.H.).” “Were He to appear this very moment,” He, in His eagerness to
insure that the proximity of the promised Revelation should not withhold
men from the Promised One, has revealed, “I would be the first to adore
Him, and the first to bow down before Him.”
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