Consider the manifold favours vouchsafed by the Promised One,
and the effusions of His bounty which have pervaded the concourse of the
followers of Islám to enable them to attain unto salvation. Indeed observe how
He Who representeth the origin of creation, He Who is the Exponent of the
verse, ‘I, in very truth, am God’, identified Himself as the Gate [Báb] for the
advent of the promised Qá’im, a descendant of Muhammad, and in His first Book
enjoined the observance of the laws of the Qur’án, so that the people might not
be seized with perturbation by reason of a new Book and a new Revelation and
might regard His Faith as similar to their own, perchance they would not turn
away from the Truth and ignore the thing for which they had been called into
being.
(The Báb, excerpts from Dalá’il-i-Sab’ih [The Seven Proofs], ‘Selections
from the Writings of the Báb)
