Say: O people, cease your slander of Me. No word have I
spoken except in praise of this Revelation [Baha’u’llah’s]; no breath have I
drawn but for the love of its Author; and nowhere have I turned My face save
towards His shining and luminous Countenance. I have made the Bayán and all
that was revealed therein to be as a leaf in the celestial garden that
belongeth unto Him, the Protector, the Gracious, the Almighty. Beware lest ye
appropriate it and surrender it to him who, in pursuit of self and desire,
seeketh to shed My blood anew and who contendeth with God. We, verily, unfolded
the Bayán from a single word and returned it again to that same word, bidding
it to appear before the Throne of Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise,
that He might behold His former creation and take delight therein. Be fair,
then, in your judgement: Is it the prerogative of the Author of that word to
lay hand upon it, or of any other soul? What hath made you so blind, O
concourse of veiled ones? - Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet in which He speaks in the
voice of the Báb [based on footnotes to the Tablet]; ‘Days of Remembrance’)
