But for the sole reason of His being present amongst this
people, We would have neither prescribed any law nor laid down any prohibition.
It is only for the glorification of His Name and the exaltation of His Cause
that We have enunciated certain laws at Our behest, or forbidden the acts to
which We are averse, so that at the hour of His manifestation ye may attain through
Him the good-pleasure of God and abstain from the things that are abhorrent
unto Him.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
