A new version of the Bahá’í Reference Library is now available. This ‘old version’ of the Bahá’í Reference Library will be replaced at a later date.
The new version of the Bahá’i Reference Library can be accessed here »
“O PEOPLE of the Bayán! If ye believe in Him Whom God …” 93 |
O PEOPLE of the Bayán! If ye believe in Him Whom God
shall make manifest, to your own behoof do ye believe. He
hath been and ever will remain independent of all men.
For instance, were ye to place unnumbered mirrors before
the sun, they would all reflect the sun and produce impressions
thereof, whereas the sun is in itself wholly independent
of the existence of the mirrors and of the suns which
they reproduce. Such are the bounds of the contingent
beings in their relation to the manifestation of the Eternal
Being…
|
In this day no less than seventy thousand people make
pilgrimage every year to the holy House of God in compliance
with the bidding of the Apostle of God; while He
Himself Who ordained this ordinance took refuge for
seven years in the mountains of Mecca. And this notwithstanding
that the One Who enjoined this commandment is
far greater than the commandment itself. Hence all this
people who at this time go on pilgrimage do not do so with
true understanding, otherwise in this Day of His Return
which is mightier than His former Dispensation, they
would have followed His commandment. But now behold
what hath happened. People who profess belief in His
former religion, who in the daytime and in the night
season bow down in worship in His Name, have assigned
Him to a dwelling place in a mountain, while each one of
them would regard attaining recognition of Him as an
honour. VII, 15.
|