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“THOU beholdest how vast is the number of people who …” |
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THOU beholdest how vast is the number of people who
go to Mecca each year on pilgrimage and engage in circumambulation,
while He, through the potency of Whose
Word the Ka‘bah [the sanctuary in Mecca] hath become
the object of adoration, is forsaken in this mountain. He is
none other but the Apostle of God Himself, inasmuch as
the Revelation of God may be likened to the sun. No matter
how innumerable its risings, there is but one sun, and upon
it depends the life of all things. It is clear and evident that
the object of all preceding Dispensations hath been to pave
the way for the advent of Muḥammad, the Apostle of God.
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These, including the Muḥammadan Dispensation, have
had, in their turn, as their objective the Revelation proclaimed
by the Qá’im. The purpose underlying this
Revelation, as well as those that preceded it, has, in like
manner, been to announce the advent of the Faith of Him
Whom God will make manifest. And this Faith—the Faith
of Him Whom God will make manifest—in its turn, together
with all the Revelations gone before it, have as their
object the Manifestation destined to succeed it. And the
latter, no less than all the Revelations preceding it, prepare
the way for the Revelation which is yet to follow. The
process of the rise and setting of the Sun of Truth will thus
indefinitely continue—a process that hath had no beginning
and will have no end.
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