O concourse of divines! This is the day whereon nothing
amongst all things, nor any name amongst all names, can profit you save through
this Name which God hath made the Manifestation of His Cause and the Dayspring
of His Most Excellent Titles unto all who are in the kingdom of creation.
Blessed is that man that hath recognized the fragrance of the All-Merciful and
been numbered with the steadfast. Your sciences shall not profit you in this
day, nor your arts, nor your treasures, nor your glory. Cast them all behind
your backs, and set your faces towards the Most Sublime Word through which the
Scriptures and the Books and this lucid Tablet have been distinctly set forth.
Cast away, O concourse of divines, the things ye have composed with the pens of
your idle fancies and vain imaginings. By God! The Day-Star of Knowledge hath
shone forth above the horizon of certitude.
- Baha’u’llah (From the ‘Tablet of
the Proof’ [Kawh-i-Burhan] addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Báqir, denounced by
Bahá’u’lláh as the ‘Wolf’; Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
