By the righteousness of God! But for the anthem of praise voiced
by Him Who heralded the divine Revelation, this Wronged One would never have
breathed a word which might have struck terror into the hearts of the ignorant
and caused them to perish. Dwelling on the glorification of Him Whom God shall
make manifest—exalted be His Manifestation—the Báb in the beginning of the
Bayán saith: ‘He is the One Who shall proclaim under all conditions, “Verily,
verily, I am God, no God is there but Me, the Lord of all created things. In
truth all others except Me are My creatures. O, My creatures! Me alone do ye
worship.”’ Likewise in another instance He, magnifying the Name of Him Who
shall be made manifest, saith: ‘I would be the first to adore Him.’ Now it
behoveth one to reflect upon the significance of the ‘Adorer’ and the ‘Adored
One’, that perchance the people of the earth may partake of a dewdrop from the
ocean of divine knowledge and may be enabled to perceive the greatness of this
Revelation. Verily, He hath appeared and hath unloosed His tongue to proclaim
the Truth. Well is it with him who doth acknowledge and recognize the truth,
and woe betide the froward and the wayward.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah
revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
