Morning
Another of his questions: “In the Mahábád and Zoroastrian
religions it is said: ’Our faith and religion is superior to every other. The
other Prophets and the religions they have instituted are true, but they occupy
different stations before God, even as, in the court of a king, there is a
gradation of ranks from the prime minister to the common soldier. Whosoever
wisheth, let him keep the precepts of his religion.’ Nor do they impose upon
any soul…”
Regarding their statement that “our faith and religion is superior to every other”, by this is meant such Prophets as have appeared before them. Viewed from one perspective these holy Souls are one: the first among them is the same as the last, and the last is the same as the first. All have proceeded from God, unto Him have they summoned all men, and unto Him have they returned.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other Writings’)
Evening
We testify, O my Lord, that Thou art God and that there is none other God besides Thee. From everlasting Thou wast enthroned on the inaccessible heights of Thy power, and wilt unto everlasting continue to exercise Thy transcendent and unrestrained dominion. The hosts of the world are powerless to frustrate Thy will, nor can all the dwellers of the earth and all the inmates of heaven annul Thy decree. Thou truly art the Almighty, the Most Exalted, the Most Great.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations of Baha’u’llah’)
