Selections From the Writings of the BábBab, ʻAli Muhammad Shirazi
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Selections From the Writings of the Báb
Bab, ʻAli Muhammad Shirazi
Babism; Bahai Faith
O servants of God! Be ye patient, for, God grant, He Who is the sovereign
Truth will suddenly appear amongst you, invested with the power of the
mighty Word, and ye shall then be confounded by the Truth itself, and ye
shall have no power to ward it off;(34) and verily I am a witness over all
mankind. _Chapter LIX._
“Verily such as ridicule the wondrous, divine Verses ...”
Verily such as ridicule the wondrous, divine Verses revealed through His
Remembrance, are but making themselves the objects of ridicule, and We, in
truth, aid them to wax in their iniquity.(35) Indeed God’s knowledge
transcendeth all created things...
The infidels, of a truth, seek to separate God from His Remembrance,(36)
but God hath determined to perfect His Light(37) through His Remembrance,
and indeed He is potent over all things...
Verily, Christ is Our Word which We communicated unto Mary;(38) and let no
one say what the Christians term as ‘the third of three’,(39) inasmuch as
it would amount to slandering the Remembrance Who, as decreed in the
Mother Book, is invested with supreme authority. Indeed God is but one
God, and far be it from His glory that there should be aught else besides
Him. All those who shall attain unto Him on the Day of Resurrection are
but His servants, and God is, of a truth, a sufficient Protector. Verily I
am none other but the servant of God and His Word, and none but the first
one to bow down in supplication before God, the Most Exalted; and indeed
God witnesseth all things. _Chapter LXI._
“O People of the Qur’án! Ye are as nothing unless ye ...”
O People of the Qur’án! Ye are as nothing unless ye submit unto the
Remembrance of God and unto this Book. If ye follow the Cause of God, We
will forgive you your sins, and if ye turn aside from Our command, We
will, in truth, condemn your souls in Our Book, unto the Most Great Fire.
We, verily, do not deal unjustly with men, even to the extent of a speck
on a date-stone. _Chapter LXII._
“O Peoples of the earth! Verily the resplendent Light of ...”
O Peoples of the earth! Verily the resplendent Light of God hath appeared
in your midst, invested with this unerring Book, that ye may be guided
aright to the ways of peace and, by the leave of God, step out of the
darkness into the light and onto this far-extended Path of Truth(40) ...
God hath, out of sheer nothingness and through the potency of His command,
created the heavens and the earth and whatever lieth between them. He is
single and peerless in His eternal unity with none to join partner with
His holy Essence, nor is there any soul, except His Own Self, who can
befittingly comprehend Him...
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