Were the Point of
the Bayán present in this day and should He, God forbid, hesitate to
acknowledge this Cause, then the very blessed words which have streamed forth
from the wellspring of His Own Bayán would apply to Him. He saith, and His word
is the truth, ‘Lawful is it for Him Whom God will make manifest to reject him
who is the greatest on earth.’ Say, O ye that are bereft of understanding!
Today that Most Exalted Being is proclaiming: ‘Verily, verily, I am the first
to adore Him.’ How shallow is the fund of men’s knowledge and how feeble their
power of perception. Our Pen of Glory beareth witness to their abject poverty
and to the wealth of God, the Lord of all worlds.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
