“I have written down in My mention of Him,” He thus extols the Author of
the anticipated Revelation, “these gem-like words: ‘No allusion of Mine
can allude unto Him, neither anything mentioned in the Bayán.’” “I,
Myself, am but the first servant to believe in Him and in His signs....”
“The year-old germ,” He significantly affirms, “that holdeth within itself
the potentialities of the Revelation that is to come is endowed with a
potency superior to the combined forces of the whole of the Bayán.” And
again: “The whole of the Bayán is only a leaf amongst the leaves of His
Paradise.” “Better is it for thee,” He similarly asserts, “to recite but
one of the verses of Him Whom God shall make manifest than to set down the
whole of the Bayán, for on that Day that one verse can save thee, whereas
the entire Bayán cannot save thee.” “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.” “The Bayán
deriveth all its glory from Him Whom God shall make manifest.” “All that
hath been revealed in the Bayán is but a ring upon My hand, and I Myself
am, verily, but a ring upon the hand of Him Whom God shall make
manifest... He turneth it as He pleaseth, for whatsoever He pleaseth, and
through whatsoever He pleaseth. He, verily, is the Help in Peril, the Most
High.” “Certitude itself,” He, in reply to Vahíd and to one of the Letters
of the Living who had inquired regarding the promised One, had declared,
“is ashamed to be called upon to certify His truth ... and Testimony
itself is ashamed to testify unto Him.” Addressing this same Vahíd, He
moreover had stated: “Were I to be assured that in the day of His
manifestation thou wilt deny Him, I would unhesitatingly disown thee...
If, on the other hand, I be told that a Christian, who beareth no
allegiance to My Faith, will believe in Him, the same will I regard as the
apple of My eye.”
And finally is this, His moving invocation to God: “Bear Thou witness
that, through this Book, I have covenanted with all created things
concerning the mission of Him Whom Thou shalt make manifest, ere the
covenant concerning My own mission had been established. Sufficient
witness art Thou and they that have believed in Thy signs.” “I, verily,
have not fallen short of My duty to admonish that people,” is yet another
testimony from His pen, “...If on the day of His Revelation all that are
on earth bear Him allegiance, Mine inmost being will rejoice, inasmuch as
all will have attained the summit of their existence.... If not, My soul
will be saddened. I truly have nurtured all things for this purpose. How,
then, can any one be veiled from Him?”
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