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               Selections From the Writings of the Báb 
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               Pages 43-44 
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 "VERILY We made the revelation of verses to be a testimony ..."
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     VERILY We made the revelation of verses to be a testimony 
for Our message unto you.  Can ye produce a single 
letter to match these verses?  Bring forth, then, your proofs, 
if ye be of those who can discern the one true God.  I 
solemnly affirm before God, should all men and spirits 
combine to compose the like of one chapter of this Book, 
they would surely fail, even though they were to assist one 
another.
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     O concourse of divines!  Fear God from this day onwards 
in the views ye advance, for He Who is Our Remembrance 
in your midst, and Who cometh from Us, is, 
in very truth, the Judge and Witness.  Turn away from that 
which ye lay hold of, and which the Book of God, the True 
One, hath not sanctioned, for on the Day of Resurrection 
ye shall, upon the Bridge, be, in very truth, held answerable 
for the position ye occupied....  And unto you We have 
sent down this Book which truly none can mistake...  
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     O concourse of the people of the Book!  Fear ye God 
and pride not yourselves in your learning.  Follow ye the 
Book which His Remembrance hath revealed in praise of 
God, the True One.  He Who is the Eternal Truth beareth 
me witness, whoso followeth this Book hath indeed followed 
all the past Scriptures which have been sent down 
from heaven by God, the Sovereign Truth.  Verily, He is 
well informed of what ye do...  Such as are the true followers 
of Islám would say:  `O Lord our God!  We have 
hearkened to the call of Thy Remembrance and obeyed 
Him.  Forgive us our sins.  Thou art, verily, the Eternal 
Truth, and unto Thee, our infallible Retreat, must we all 
return.'
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  Chapter II.  
 
 
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 Notes
1. [cf. Qur'án 17:90] 
2. [cf. Qur'án 2:285] 
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