Say: All matters must be referred to the Book of God; I am
indeed the First to believe in God and in His signs; I am the One Who divulgeth
and proclaimeth the Truth and I have been invested with every excellent title
of God, the Mighty, the Incomparable. Verily I have attained the Day of the
First Manifestation and by the bidding of the Lord and as a token of His grace,
I shall attain the Day of the Latter Manifestation. There is no God but Him and
at the appointed hour everyone shall bow down unto Him in adoration.
(The Báb,
excerpt from a Tablet to the First Letter of the Living, ‘Selections from the
Writings of the Báb)
