That City is none other than the Word of God revealed in every age and dispensation. In the days of
Moses it was the
Pentateuch; in the days of Jesus, the
Gospel; in the days of
Muḥammad, the Messenger of God, the
Qur’án; in this day, the
Bayán; and in the
Dispensation of Him Whom God will make manifest, His own Book—the Book unto which all the Books of former Dispensations must needs be referred, the Book that standeth amongst them all transcendent and supreme.
CXXVITo whatever place We may be banished, however great the tribulation We may suffer, they who are the people of God must, with fixed resolve and perfect confidence, keep their eyes directed towards the
Day Spring of Glory, and be busied in whatever may be conducive to the betterment of the world and the education of its peoples. All that hath befallen Us in the past hath advanced the interests of Our
Revelation and blazoned its fame; and all that may befall Us in the future will have a like result. Cling ye, with your inmost hearts, to the Cause of God, a Cause that hath been sent down by Him Who is the Ordainer, the All-Wise. We have, with the utmost kindliness and mercy, summoned and directed all peoples and nations to that which shall truly profit them.
The Day Star of Truth that shineth in its meridian splendor beareth Us witness! They who are the people