A few believed in Him [the Báb]; few of Our servants are the
thankful. These He admonished, in all His Tablets—nay, in every passage of His
wondrous writings—not to give themselves up in the Day of the promised
Revelation to anything whatever, be it in the heaven or in the earth. “O
people!” said He, “I have revealed Myself for His Manifestation, and have
caused My Book, the Bayán, to descend upon you for no other purpose except to
establish the truth of His Cause. Fear ye God, and contend not with Him as the
people of the Qur’án have contended with Me. At whatever time ye hear of Him,
hasten ye towards Him, and cleave ye to whatsoever He may reveal unto you.
Naught else besides Him can ever profit you, no, not though ye produce from
first to last the testimonies of all those who were before you.”
And when after the lapse of a few years the heaven of Divine
decree was cleft asunder, and the Beauty of the Báb appeared in the clouds of
the names of God, arrayed in a new raiment, these same people maliciously rose
up against Him, Whose light embraceth all created things. They broke His
Covenant, rejected His truth, contended with Him, cavilled at His signs,
treated His testimony as falsehood, and joined the company of the infidels.
Eventually, they determined to take away His life. Such is the state of them
who are in a far-gone error!
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
