“I am the Primal Point,” the Báb thus addresses Muhammad
Sháh from the prison-fortress of Máh-Kú, “from which have been generated all
created things... I am the Countenance of God Whose splendor can never be
obscured, the light of God whose radiance can never fade... All the keys of
heaven God hath chosen to place on My right hand, and all the keys of hell on
My left... I am one of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God.
Whosoever hath recognized Me, hath known all that is true and right, and hath
attained all that is good and seemly... The substance wherewith God hath
created Me is not the clay out of which others have been formed. He hath
conferred upon Me that which the worldly-wise can never comprehend, nor the
faithful discover.” “Should a tiny ant,” the Báb, wishing to stress the
limitless potentialities latent in His Dispensation, characteristically
affirms, “desire in this day to be possessed of such power as to be able to
unravel the abstrusest and most bewildering passages of the Qur’án, its wish
will no doubt be fulfilled, inasmuch as the mystery of eternal might vibrates
within the innermost being of all created things.” “If so helpless a creature,”
is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s comment on so startling an affirmation, “can be endowed with
so subtle a capacity, how much more efficacious must be the power released
through the liberal effusions of the grace of Bahá’u’lláh!”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The
Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’)
