…consider the basis on which they pronounced the death
sentence against the Most Exalted One, the Báb—may my life be a sacrifice unto
Him! Mullá Muhammad-i-Mamaqání cried out, “O people! In the Qur’án God saith:
‘No doubt is there about this Book: It is a guidance unto the God-fearing’ [Qur’án
2:2]; that is, it guideth aright all humanity. It is also clearly stated: ‘But
He is the Apostle of God and the Seal of the Prophets.’ [Qur’án 33:40] How can
we regard such an explicit statement as the source of error, while it is
guidance itself? This person who claimeth to be a descendant of the Prophet
hath indeed destroyed the foundation laid down by Him!” He then mentioned, one
by one, some of the laws revealed in the Bayán—laws that were later abrogated
in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Thereupon, he ordered the emblem of the Báb’s noble
lineage to be removed from His head, [1] and issued, without hesitation and
with the utmost malice, the sentence of His death. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Light of the World’)
[1] His turban
