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Prophethood of Báb and Bahá'u'lláh
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Prophethood of Báb and Bahá'u'lláh
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The more we study the lives and teachings of the Báb and
Bahá'u'lláh, the more impossible does it seem to find any explanation
of Their greatness, except that of Divine Inspiration.
They were reared in an atmosphere of fanaticism and bigotry.
They had only the most elementary education. They had no
contact with Western culture. They had no political or
financial power to back Them. They asked nothing from men,
and receive little but injustice and oppression. The great ones
of earth ignored or opposed Them. They were scourged and
tortured, imprisoned and subjected to direst calamities in the
fulfillment of Their mission. They were alone against the
world, having no help but that of God, yet already Their
triumph is manifest and magnificent.
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The grandeur and sublimity of Their ideals, the nobility
and self-sacrifice of Their lives; Their dauntless courage and
conviction, Their amazing wisdom and knowledge, Their
grasp of the needs of both Eastern and Western peoples, the
comprehensiveness and adequacy of Their teachings, Their
power to inspire wholehearted devotion and enthusiasm in
Their followers, the penetration and potency of Their influence,
the progress of the Movement They founded -- surely
these constitute proofs of Prophethood as convincing as any
which the history of religion can show.
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