…consider the people unto whom the Gospel was given. Having
no access to the apostles of Jesus, they sought the pleasure of the Lord in
their churches, hoping to learn that which would be acceptable unto God, but
they found therein no path unto Him. Then when God manifested Muhammad as His
Messenger and as the Repository of His good-pleasure, they neglected to quicken
their souls from the Fountain of living waters which streamed forth from the
presence of their Lord and continued to rove distraught upon the earth seeking
a mere droplet of water and believing that they were doing righteous deeds.
They behaved as the people unto whom the Qur’án was given are now behaving.
(The
Báb, an excerpt from the Kitáb-i-Asmá [Book of Names]; ‘Selections from the Writings
of the Báb)
