Beware, beware lest thou behave like unto the people of the
Bayán. For indeed they erred grievously, misguided the people, ignored the
Covenant of God and His Testament and joined partners with Him, the One, the
Incomparable, the All-Knowing. Verily they failed to recognize the Point of the
Bayán, for had they recognized Him they would not have rejected His
manifestation in this luminous and resplendent Being. And since they fixed
their eyes on names, therefore when He replaced His Name ‘the Most Exalted’ by
‘the Most Glorious’ their eyes were dimmed. They have failed to recognize Him
in these days and are reckoned with those that perish. Indeed, had they known
Him through His own Self or by virtue of that which He hath revealed, they
would not have repudiated Him when He appeared in this glorious and
incomparable Name, which God hath ordained to be the Sword of His Revelation
between heaven and earth, and through which truth is separated from error, even
from now until the Day when mankind shall stand before the Lord of the worlds.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
