Selections From the Writings of the Báb
Excerpts from the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’
of God concerning Him Who is the supreme Testimony, the Expected
Qá’im, and verily God hath knowledge of all things. This divinely-inspired Book hath firmly established His Proof for all those who are in the East and in the West, hence beware lest ye utter aught but the truth regarding God, for I swear by your Lord that this supreme Proof of Mine beareth witness unto all things...
O servants of God! Be ye patient, for, God grant, He Who is the sovereign Truth will suddenly appear amongst you, invested with the power of the mighty Word, and ye shall then be confounded by the Truth itself, and ye shall have no power to ward it off;1 and verily I am a witness over all mankind. Chapter LIX.
VERILY such as ridicule the wondrous, divine Verses revealed through His Remembrance, are but making themselves the objects of ridicule, and We, in truth, aid them to wax in their iniquity.2 Indeed God’s knowledge transcendeth all created things...
The infidels, of a truth, seek to separate God from His Remembrance,3 but God hath determined to perfect His Light4 through His Remembrance, and indeed He is potent over all things...
Verily, Christ is Our Word which We communicated unto Mary;5 and let no one say what the Christians term
60