The Báb testified to the “incomparable greatness” and the “preëminence of that superior Revelation that was soon to supersede His own”
In a communication addressed to the American believers I
have in the course of my explanation of the station of the Báb made a passing
reference to the incomparable greatness of the Revelation of which He
considered Himself to be the humble Precursor. He Whom Bahá’u’lláh has
acclaimed in the Kitáb-i-Íqán as that promised Qá’im Who has manifested no less
than twenty-five out of the twenty-seven letters which all the Prophets were
destined to reveal—so great a Revealer has Himself testified to the preëminence
of that superior Revelation that was soon to supersede His own.- “The
germ,” the Báb asserts in the Persian Bayán, “that holds within itself the
potentialities of the Revelation that is to come is endowed with a potency
superior to the combined forces of all those who follow me.”
- “Of all
the tributes,” He again affirms, “I have paid to Him Who is to come after Me,
the greatest is this, My written confession, that no words of Mine can
adequately describe Him, nor can any reference to Him in My Book, the Bayán, do
justice to His Cause.”
- “The
Bayán,” He in that same Book categorically declares, “and whosoever is therein
revolve round the saying of ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest,’ even as the
Alif (the Gospel) and whosoever was therein revolved round the saying of
Muhammad, the Apostle of God.”
- “A
thousand perusals of the Bayán,” He further remarks, “cannot equal the perusal
of a single verse to be revealed by ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest.’…
- 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
and such as are believers therein yearn more ardently after Him than the
yearning of any lover after his beloved.…
- The Bayán
deriveth all its glory from ‘Him Whom God shall make manifest.’ All blessing be
upon him who believeth in Him and woe betide him that rejecteth His truth.”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’ included in ‘The World Order of
Baha’u’llah’)
