August 10
Verily, Christ is Our Word which We communicated unto Mary; [cf.
Qur’án 4:169] and let no one say what the Christians term as
‘the third of three’, [Qur’án 5:77] inasmuch as it would amount to slandering
the Remembrance Who, as decreed in the Mother Book, is invested with supreme
authority. Indeed God is but one God, and far be it from His glory that there
should be aught else besides Him. All those who shall attain unto Him on the
Day of Resurrection are but His servants, and God is, of a truth, a sufficient
Protector. Verily I am none other but the servant of God and His Word, and none
but the first one to bow down in supplication before God, the Most Exalted; and
indeed God witnesseth all things. (The Báb, excerpts from the Qayyumu’l-Asma,
‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
