Notes to Aqdas, Sentence #423
Earl Elder's Notes
1. In the language of the Sufis (the mystics of Islam) the man who reveals God, the head of the order, is often called the Axis (qutb), for about Him everything revolves. (cf. Enc. of
Islam, iv, 684; ii, 1465 ff.). It seems that here Baha'u'llah is chiding the People of the Bayan for trying to prove from their book just what Jews and Christians proved from
their books, namely, that Baha'u'llah was not from God. His reply is that only his book will suffice them, for it is the final and complete Word of God, who in Baha'u'llah is doing a new thing. Baha'u'llah is, therefore, "the Axis of Innovation."
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