Judge fairly: Were the
prophecies recorded in the Gospel to be literally fulfilled; were Jesus, Son of
Mary, accompanied by angels, to descend from the visible heaven upon the
clouds; who would dare to disbelieve, who would dare to reject the truth, and
wax disdainful? Nay, such consternation would immediately seize all the
dwellers of the earth that no soul would feel able to utter a word, much less
to reject or accept the truth. It was owing to their misunderstanding of these
truths that many a Christian divine hath objected to Muhammad, and voiced his
protest in such words: “If Thou art in truth the promised Prophet, why then art
Thou not accompanied by those angels our sacred Books foretold, and which must
needs descend with the promised Beauty to assist Him in His Revelation and act
as warners unto His people?”
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
