…the Seal of the Prophets [Muhammad] —may the souls of all
else but Him be offered up for His sake—is without likeness, peer or partner in
His Own station. The Holy Ones [the Imáms] —may the blessings of God be upon
them—were created through the potency of His Word, and after Him they were the
most learned and the most distinguished among the people and abide in the
utmost station of servitude. The divine Essence, sanctified from every
comparison and likeness, is established in the Prophet, and God’s inmost
Reality, exalted above any peer or partner, is manifest in Him. This is the
station of true unity and of veritable singleness.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
