Say: O Yahyá (Azal), produce a single verse, if thou dost
possess divinely-inspired knowledge. These words were formerly spoken by My
Herald Who at this hour proclaimeth: ‘Verily, verily, I am the first to adore Him.’ Be fair, O My brother. Art thou able to
express thyself when brought face to face with the billowing ocean of Mine
utterance? Canst thou unloose thy tongue when confronted with the shrill voice
of My Pen? Hast thou any power before the revelations of Mine omnipotence?
Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God, and call to mind when thou didst stand
in the presence of this Wronged One and We dictated to thee the verses of God,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Beware lest the source of falsehood
withhold thee from the manifest Truth.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
