All the things that people required in connection with the
Revelation of Muhammad and His laws were to be found revealed and manifest in
that Ridván of resplendent glory. That Book [the Qur’an] constitutes an abiding
testimony to its people after Muhammad, inasmuch as its decrees are
indisputable, and its promise unfailing. All have been enjoined to follow the
precepts of that Book until “the year sixty” —the year of the advent of God’s
wondrous Manifestation. That Book is the Book which unfailingly leadeth the
seeker unto the Ridván of the divine Presence, and causeth him that hath
forsaken his country and is treading the seeker’s path to enter the Tabernacle
of everlasting reunion. Its guidance can never err, its testimony no other
testimony can excel. All other traditions, all other books and records, are
bereft of such distinction, inasmuch as both the traditions and they that have
spoken them are confirmed and proven solely by the text of that Book. Moreover,
the traditions themselves grievously differ, and their obscurities are
manifold.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
