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Selections From the Writings of the Báb
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Pages 69-70
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"GOD had, in truth, proposed Our Mission unto the ..."
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GOD had, in truth, proposed Our Mission unto the
heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused
to bear it and were afraid thereof. However, Man, this
`Alí, Who is none other but the Great Remembrance of
God, undertook to bear it. Hence God, the All-Encompassing,
hath referred to Him in His Preserved Book as the
`Wronged One', and by reason of His being undistinguished
before the eyes of men, He hath, according to the
judgement of the Book, been entitled `the Unknown'...
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Erelong We will, in very truth, torment such as waged
war against Husayn [Imám Husayn], in the Land of the
Euphrates, with the most afflictive torment, and the most
dire and exemplary punishment....
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God knoweth well the heart of Husayn, the heat of His
burning thirst and His long-suffering for the sake of God,
the Incomparable, the Ancient of Days; and unto Him
God is verily a witness. Chapter XII.
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Notes
1. [cf. Qur'án 33:72]
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