How strange! These people with one hand cling to those
verses of the Qur’án and those traditions of the people of certitude which they
have found to accord with their inclinations and interests, and with the other
reject those which are contrary to their selfish desires. “Believe ye then part
of the Book, and deny part?” [Qur’án 2:85] How could ye judge that which ye
understand not? Even as the Lord of being hath in His unerring Book, after speaking
of the “Seal” in His exalted utterance: “Muhammad is the Apostle of God and the
Seal of the Prophets,” [Qur’án 33:40] hath revealed unto all people the promise
of “attainment unto the divine Presence.” To this attainment to the presence of
the immortal King testify the verses of the Book, some of which We have already
mentioned. The one true God is My witness! Nothing more exalted or more
explicit than “attainment unto the divine Presence” hath been revealed in the
Qur’án. Well is it with him that hath attained thereunto, in the day wherein
most of the people, even as ye witness, have turned away therefrom.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
