Selections From the Writings of the Báb
Excerpts from the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’
Say, O peoples of the world! Do ye dispute with Me about God by virtue of the names which ye and your fathers have adopted for Him at the promptings of the Evil One?
1 God hath indeed sent down this Book unto Me with truth that ye may be enabled to recognize the true names of God, inasmuch as ye have strayed in error far from the Truth. Verily We have taken a
covenant from every created thing upon its coming into being concerning the Remembrance of God, and there shall be none to avert the binding command of God for the purification of mankind, as ordained in the Book which is written by the hand of
the Báb.
Chapter LXVIII.THE people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted the episode of the Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal features in human form2 ...
Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say: Verily the knowledge of it is only with My Lord,3 Who is the Knower of the unseen. There is none other God but Him—He Who hath created you from a single soul,4 and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth.5 Indeed God is Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord, standeth supreme over all things. Chapter LXIX.
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