He Who is the Heart and Center of the Bayán hath written:
“The germ that holdeth 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.” And, again, He saith: “Of all the tributes 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.”
Whoso hath searched the depths of the oceans that lie hid
within these exalted words, and fathomed their import, can be said to have
discovered a glimmer of the unspeakable glory with which this mighty, this
sublime, and most holy Revelation hath been endowed. From the excellence of so
great a Revelation the honor with which its faithful followers must needs be
invested can be well imagined. By the righteousness of the one true God! The
very breath of these souls is in itself richer than all the treasures of the
earth. Happy is the man that hath attained thereunto, and woe betide the
heedless. (Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
