January 27
… another verse in the Gospel wherein He saith: “Heaven and
earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away.”[Luke 21:33]Thus it
is that the adherents of Jesus maintained that the law of the Gospel shall
never be annulled, and that whensoever the promised Beauty is made manifest and
all the signs are revealed, He must needs re-affirm and establish the law
proclaimed in the Gospel, so that there may remain in the world no faith but
His faith. This is their fundamental belief. And their conviction is such that
were a person to be made manifest with all the promised signs and to promulgate
that which is contrary to the letter of the law of the Gospel, they must
assuredly renounce him, refuse to submit to his law, declare him an infidel,
and laugh him to scorn. This is proved by that which came to pass when the sun
of the Muhammadan Revelation was revealed. Had they sought with a humble mind
from the Manifestations of God in every Dispensation the true meaning of these
words revealed in the sacred books—words the misapprehension of which hath
caused men to be deprived of the recognition of the Sadratu’l-Muntahá, the
ultimate Purpose—they surely would have been guided to the light of the Sun of
Truth, and would have discovered the mysteries of divine knowledge and wisdom.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
