The fourth question: “Our
Books have announced that Sháh Bahrám will come, invested with manifold signs,
to guide the people aright….”
O friend! Whatsoever hath
been announced in the Books hath been revealed and made clear. From every
direction the signs have been manifested. The Omnipotent One is calling, in
this day, and announcing the appearance of the Supreme Heaven. The world hath
been illumined with the splendours of His Revelation, yet how few are the eyes
that can behold it! Beseech the peerless and incomparable Lord to bestow a
penetrating insight upon His servants, for insight leadeth to true knowledge
and is conducive to salvation. Indeed, the attainments of man’s understanding
are dependent upon his keenness of sight. Were the children of men to gaze with
the eye of understanding, they would see the world illumined with a new light in
this day. Say: The Daystar of knowledge is manifest and the Luminary of insight
hath appeared. Fortunate indeed is the one who hath attained, who hath
witnessed, and who hath recognized.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Tabernacle of
Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’)
