O congregation of the Bayán, and all who are therein!
Recognize ye the limits imposed upon you, for such a One as the Point of the
Bayán Himself hath believed in Him Whom God shall make manifest, before all
things were created. Therein, verily, do I glory before all who are in the
kingdom of heaven and earth. Suffer not yourselves to be shut out as by a veil
from God after He hath revealed Himself. For all that hath been exalted in the
Bayán is but as a ring upon My hand, and I Myself am, verily, but a ring upon
the hand of Him Whom God shall make manifest—glorified be His mention! He
turneth it as He pleaseth, for whatsoever He pleaseth, and through whatsoever
He pleaseth. He, verily, is the Help in Peril, the Most High.
(The Báb,
‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
