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Know assuredly that just as thou firmly believest that the Word of God, exalted be His glory,
endureth for ever, thou must, likewise, believe with
undoubting faith that its meaning can never be exhausted.
They who are its appointed interpreters,
they whose hearts are the repositories of its secrets,
are, however, the only ones who can comprehend its
manifold wisdom. Whoso, while reading the Sacred
Scriptures, is tempted to choose therefrom whatever
may suit him with which to challenge the authority
of the Representative of God among men, is, indeed,
as one dead, though to outward seeming he may walk
and converse with his neighbors, and share with them
their food and their drink. |
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Oh, would that the world could believe Me! Were
all the things that lie enshrined within the heart of
Bahá, and which the Lord, His God, the Lord of all
names, hath taught Him, to be unveiled to mankind,
every man on earth would be dumbfounded. |
3 |
How great the multitude of truths which the garment
of words can never contain! How vast the
number of such verities as no expression can adequately
describe, whose significance can never be unfolded,
and to which not even the remotest allusions
can be made! How manifold are the truths which
must remain unuttered until the appointed time is
come! Even as it hath been said: "Not everything
that a man knoweth can be disclosed, nor can everything
that he can disclose be regarded as timely, nor
can every timely utterance be considered as suited to
the capacity of those who hear it." |
4 |
Of these truths some can be disclosed only to the
extent of the capacity of the repositories of the light
of Our knowledge, and the recipients of Our hidden
grace. We beseech God to strengthen thee with His
power, and enable thee to recognize Him Who is the
Source of all knowledge, that thou mayest detach
thyself from all human learning, for, "what would it
profit any man to strive after learning when he hath
already found and recognized Him Who is the Object
of all knowledge?" Cleave to the Root of Knowledge,
and to Him Who is the Fountain thereof, that
thou mayest find thyself independent of all who
claim to be well versed in human learning, and whose
claim no clear proof, nor the testimony of any enlightening
book, can support. |