The divine Revelation associated with the advent of Him Who
is your promised Mihdí hath proved far more wondrous than the Revelation
wherewith Muhammad, the Apostle of God, was invested. Would that ye might
ponder. Verily, God raised up Muhammad, the Apostle of God, from among the
people of Arabia after he had reached forty years of age—a fact which every one
of you affirmeth and upholdeth—while your Redeemer was raised up by God at the
age of twenty-four amidst people none of whom can speak or understand a single
word of Arabic. Thus God layeth bare the glory of His Cause and demonstrateth
the Truth through the potency of His revealed Word. He is indeed the Powerful,
the Omnipotent, the Help in Peril, the Best Beloved.
- The Báb (‘Selections from
the Writings of the Báb)
