O ‘Alí-Akbar! Acquaint the people with the holy verses of
thy Lord and make known unto them His straight Path, His mighty Announcement.
Say: O people, if ye judge fairly and equitably, ye will
testify to the truth of whatsoever hath streamed forth from the Most Exalted
Pen. If ye be of the people of the Bayán, the Persian Bayán will guide you
aright and will prove a sufficient testimony unto you; and if ye be of the
people of the Qur’án, ponder ye upon the Revelation on Sinai and the Voice from
the Bush which came unto the Son of ‘Imrán [Moses].
Gracious God! It was intended that at the time of the
manifestation of the One true God the faculty of recognizing Him would have
been developed and matured and would have reached its culmination. However, it
is now clearly demonstrated that in the disbelievers this faculty hath remained
undeveloped and hath, indeed, degenerated.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah
revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
