Praise be to God Who hath made being to come forth from
nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man a measure of the mysteries of His
eternity; taught him from the storehouse of divine utterance that which he knew
not; made him a perspicuous book unto such as have believed and surrendered
their souls; given him to behold, in this dark and ruinous age, a new creation
within all things; and caused him to speak forth, from the midmost heart of
eternity, and in a new and wondrous voice, embodied in the most excellent
Temple. [Manifestation of God] And all to this end: that every man may testify,
in himself and by himself, before the Seat of the revelation of his Lord, that
there is none other God but Him; and that all may reach that summit of
realities where none shall contemplate anything but that he shall perceive God
therein. This is the vision of the splendours which have been deposited within
the realities of all things; for otherwise He, exalted be His glory, is
entirely sanctified above being seen or witnessed: “No vision taketh in Him,
but He taketh in all vision; He is the Subtile, the All-Perceiving.” [Qur’an
6:103]
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Seven
Valleys’, 2019 revised translation by the Baha’i World Centre; ‘The Call of the
Divine Beloved’)
