Regarding the statement ascribed to the Author of the
Qur’án: “Through My appearance every law and religion hath proven to be unsound
and no law holdeth but Mine”, no such words were ever uttered by that Source
and Fount of divine wisdom. Nay rather, He confirmed that which had been sent
down before from the empyrean of the Divine Will unto the Prophets and
Messengers of God. He saith, exalted be His utterance: “Alif. Lám. Mím. God!
There is no God but Him, the Living, the Ever-Abiding. He it is Who hath sent
down to Thee the Book through the power of truth, confirming those which
preceded it. He revealed aforetime the Torah and the Evangel as a guidance unto
men, and He hath now revealed the Qur’án….” [1] He, moreover, hath asserted
that all the Prophets have proceeded from God and have returned unto Him.
Viewed in this light, they are all as one and the same Being, inasmuch as they
have not uttered a word, brought a message, or revealed a cause, of their own
accord. Nay, all that they have said hath proceeded from the one true God,
exalted be His glory. They have all summoned men unto the Supreme Horizon and
imparted the tidings of eternal life.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Tabernacle of Unity,
Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’)
[1] Qur’án 3:1
