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126. Various petitions have come before Our throne from the believers, concerning laws from God… We have, in consequence, revealed this Holy Tablet and arrayed it with the mantle of His Law that haply the people may keep the commandments of their Lord. # 98 |
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“For a number of years”, Bahá’u’lláh states in one of His
Tablets, “petitions reached the Most Holy Presence from various
lands begging for the laws of God, but We held back the Pen ere the
appointed time had come.” Not until twenty years from the
birth of His Prophetic Mission in the Síyáh-Chál of Ṭihrán
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had elapsed did Bahá’u’lláh reveal the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the
Repository of the laws of His Dispensation. Even after its
revelation the Aqdas was withheld by Him for some time
before it was sent to the friends in Persia. This divinely
purposed delay in the revelation of the basic laws of God for
this age, and the subsequent gradual implementation of
their provisions, illustrate the principle of progressive
revelation which applies even within the ministry of each
Prophet.
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