Consider that which
hath been sent down unto Muhammad, the Apostle of God. The measure of the
Revelation of which He was the bearer had been clearly foreordained by Him Who
is the Almighty, the All-Powerful. They that heard Him, however, could
apprehend His purpose only to the extent of their station and spiritual
capacity. He, in like manner, uncovered the Face of Wisdom in proportion to
their ability to sustain the burden of His Message. No sooner had mankind
attained the stage of maturity, than the Word revealed to men’s eyes the latent
energies with which it had been endowed—energies which manifested themselves in
the plenitude of their glory when the Ancient Beauty appeared, in the year
sixty, in the person of ‘Alí-Muhammad, the Báb.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
