The people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted the
episode of the Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal
features in human form [Qur’án 7:146; 20:90] ...
Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say:
Verily the knowledge of it is only with My Lord, [Qur’án 7:186] Who is the
Knower of the unseen. There is none other God but Him—He Who hath created you
from a single soul, [Qur’án 4:1] and I have no control over what profiteth Me
or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth. [Qur’án 10:50] Indeed God is
Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord, standeth supreme over all things. (The Báb,
excerpts from the Qayyumu’l-Asma, ‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
