“Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live
in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements”. For this
day is the Lord of all days, and whatsoever hath been revealed therein by the
Source of divine Revelation is the truth and the essence of all principles.
This day may be likened to a sea and all other days to gulfs and channels that
have branched therefrom. That which is uttered and revealed in this day is the
foundation, and is accounted as the Mother Book and the Source of all
utterance. Although every day is associated with God, magnified be His glory,
yet these days have been singled out and adorned with the ornament of intimate
association with Him, for they have been extolled in the books of the Chosen
Ones of God, as well as of some of His Prophets, as the “Day of God”. In a
sense this day and that which appeareth therein are to be regarded as the
primary principles, while all other days and whatsoever appeareth in them are
to be viewed as the secondary ordinances deduced therefrom, and which as such
are subordinate and relative. (Baha’u’llah, ‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s
Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’)
