Selections From the Writings of the Báb
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"THE people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted ..."
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THE people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted the episode of the Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal features in human form
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...
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Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say: Verily the knowledge of it is only with My Lord,
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Who is the Knower of the unseen. There is none other God but Him--He Who hath created you from a single soul,
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and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth.
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Indeed God is Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord, standeth supreme over all things.
Chapter LXIX.
Notes
1.
[cf.
Qur'án 7:146
;
20:90
]
2.
[cf.
Qur'án 7:186
]
3.
[cf.
Qur'án 4:1
]
4.
[cf.
Qur'án 10:50
]