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Selections From the Writings of the Báb
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Pages 134-135
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"ON the Day of Resurrection when He Whom God will ..."
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ON the Day of Resurrection when He Whom God will
make manifest cometh unto you, invested with conclusive
proofs, ye shall hold His Cause as being devoid of truth,
whereas God hath apprised you in the Bayán that no
similarity existeth between the Cause of Him Whom God
will make manifest and the cause of others. How can anyone
besides God reveal a verse such as to overwhelm all
mankind? Say, great is God! Who else but Him Whom
God will make manifest can spontaneously recite verses
which proceed from His Lord--a feat that no mortal man
can ever hope to accomplish?
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Truth can in no wise be confounded with aught else
except itself; would that ye might ponder His proof. Nor
can error be confused with Truth, if ye do but reflect upon
the testimony of God, the True One.
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How great hath been the number of those who have
falsely laid claim to a cause within Islám, and ye followed
in their footsteps without having witnessed a single proof.
What evidence can ye then produce in the presence of
your Lord, if ye do but meditate a while?
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Take ye good heed in your night
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lest ye be a cause of
sadness to any soul, whether ye be able to discover proofs
in him or not, that haply on the Day of Resurrection ye
may not grieve Him within Whose grasp lieth every proof.
And when ye do not discern God's testimony in a person,
he will verily fail in manifesting the power of Truth; and
God is sufficient to deal with him. Indeed on no account
should ye sadden any person; surely God will put him to
the proof and bring him to account. It behooveth you to
cling to the testimony of your own Faith and to observe
the ordinances laid down in the Bayán.
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You are like unto the man who layeth out an orchard
and planteth all kinds of fruit trees therein. When the time
is at hand for him, the lord, to come, ye will have taken
possession of the orchard in his name, and when he doth
come in person, ye will shut him out from it.
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Verily We planted the Tree of the Qur'án and provided
its Orchard with all kinds of fruit, whereof ye all have been
partaking. Then when We came to take over that which
We had planted, ye pretended not to know Him Who is
the Lord thereof.
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Be ye not a cause of grief unto Us, nor withhold Us
from this Orchard which belongeth unto Us, though independent
are We of all that ye possess. Moreover, unto
none of you shall We make this property lawful, were it
even to the extent of a mustard seed. Verily, the Reckoner
are We.
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We have planted the Garden of the Bayán in the name
of Him Whom God will make manifest, and have granted
you permission to live therein until the time of His
manifestation; then from the moment the Cause of Him
Whom God will make manifest is inaugurated, We forbid
you all the things ye hold as your own, unless ye may, by
the leave of your Lord, be able to regain possession thereof.
XVIII, 3.
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Notes
1. [By `night' is meant the period between two divine Revelations when the Sun of Truth is not manifest among men. In the Persian Bayán, II, 7, the Báb says, `O people of the Bayán! Act not as the people of the Qur'án have acted, for if you do so the fruits of your night will come to naught'. ]
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