God hath caused to stream forth from the tongue of the
Point of the Bayán. Indeed, if any living creature were to pause to meditate he would undoubtedly realize that these verses are not the work of man, but are solely to be ascribed unto God, the One, the Peerless, Who causeth them to flow forth from the tongue of whomsoever He willeth, and hath not revealed nor will He reveal them save through the
Focal Point of God’s Primal Will. He it is, through Whose dispensations divine Messengers are raised up and heavenly Books are sent down. Had human beings been able to accomplish this deed surely someone would have brought forth at least one verse during the period of twelve hundred and seventy years which hath elapsed since the
revelation of the
Qur’án until that of the
Bayán. However, all men have proved themselves impotent and have utterly failed to do so, although they endeavoured, with their vehement might, to quench the flame of the Word of God.
II, 1.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.