All praise be to God Who hath, through the power of Truth,
sent down this Book [ The Qayyúmu’l-Asmá] unto His servant, that it may serve
as a shining light for all mankind... Verily this is none other than the
sovereign Truth; it is the Path which God hath laid out for all that are in
heaven and on earth. Let him then who will, take for himself the right path
unto his Lord. Verily this is the true Faith of God, and sufficient witness are
God and such as are endowed with the knowledge of the Book. This is indeed the
eternal Truth which God, the Ancient of Days, hath revealed unto His omnipotent
Word—He Who hath been raised up from the midst of the Burning Bush. This is the
Mystery which hath been hidden from all that are in heaven and on earth, and in
this wondrous Revelation it hath, in very truth, been set forth in the Mother
Book by the hand of God, the Exalted... - The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings
of the Báb)
