Selections From the Writings of the Báb
Excerpts from the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’
desired fruit; and for them God hath provided
Arks of ruby, tender, crimson-coloured, wherein none shall sail but the
people of Bahá, by the leave of God, the Most Exalted; and verily He is the All-Glorious, the All-Wise.
Chapter LVII.THE Lord hath, in truth, inspired Me: Verily, verily, I am God, He besides Whom there is none other God, and I am indeed the
Ancient of Days...
O people of the Kingdom! By the righteousness of the true God, if ye remain steadfast upon this line which standeth upright between the two lines, ye shall, in very truth, quaff the living waters from the Fountain of this wondrous
Revelation as proffered by the hand of His Remembrance...
I swear by your true Lord, by Him Who is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that the divine Promise concerning His Remembrance is naught but the sovereign truth and, as decreed in the
Mother Book, it shall come to pass...
Say, O peoples of the earth! Were ye to assemble together in order to produce the like of a single letter of My Works, ye would never be able to do so,1 and verily God is cognizant of all things...
O Qurratu’l-‘Ayn! Say: Behold! Verily the Moon hath faded; verily the night hath retreated; verily the dawn hath brightened;2 verily the command of God, your true Lord, hath been accomplished...
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