They [Bábis] that have turned aside from Me have spoken even
as the followers of John (the Baptist) spoke. For they, too, protested against
Him Who was the Spirit (Jesus) saying: “The dispensation of John hath not yet
ended; wherefore hast thou come?” Now, too, they that have repudiated Us,
though they have never known Us and have been at all times ignorant of the
fundamentals of this Cause, knowing not from Whom it proceeded or what it
signifieth, have spoken that which hath made all created things to sigh and
lament. By My life! The mute can never confront the One Who incarnateth in
Himself the kingdom of utterance. Fear God, O people, and peruse, then, that
which hath been sent down with truth in the eighth Chapter of the sixth Vahíd
of the Bayán, and be not of such as have turned aside. He, likewise, hath
commanded: “Once every nineteen days this Chapter should be read, that haply
they may not be veiled, in the time of the revelation of Him Whom God shall
make manifest, by considerations foreign to the verses, which have been, and
are still, the weightiest of all proofs and testimonies.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
