Verses from the Súratu’l-Haykal [Tablet of the Temple] “each of which testifies to the resistless power infused into the Revelation proclaimed by” Bahá’u’lláh
In the Súratu’l-Haykal, one of the most challenging works of
Bahá’u’lláh, the following verses, each of which testifies to the resistless
power infused into the Revelation proclaimed by its Author, have been recorded:- “Naught
is seen in My temple but the Temple of God, and in My beauty but His Beauty,
and in My being but His Being, and in My self but His Self, and in My movement
but His Movement, and in My acquiescence but His Acquiescence, and in My pen
but His Pen, the Mighty, the All-Praised. There hath not been in My soul but
the Truth, and in Myself naught could be seen but God.”
- “The
Holy Spirit Itself hath been generated through the agency of a single letter
revealed by this Most Great Spirit, if ye be of them that comprehend.”…
- “Within
the treasury of Our Wisdom there lies unrevealed a knowledge, one word of
which, if We chose to divulge it to mankind, would cause every human being to
recognize the Manifestation of God and to acknowledge His omniscience, would
enable every one to discover the secrets of all the sciences, and to attain so
high a station as to find himself wholly independent of all past and future
learning. Other knowledges We do as well possess, not a single letter of which
We can disclose, nor do We find humanity able to hear even the barest reference
to their meaning. Thus have We informed you of the knowledge of God, the
All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” “
- The day
is approaching when God will have, by an act of His Will, raised up a race of
men the nature of which is inscrutable to all save God, the All-Powerful, the
Self-Subsisting.”
- “He
will, ere long, out of the Bosom of Power draw forth the Hands of Ascendancy
and Might—Hands who will arise to win victory for this Youth and who will purge
mankind from the defilement of the outcast and the ungodly. These Hands will gird
up their loins to champion the Faith of God, and will, in My name the
self-subsistent, the mighty, subdue the peoples and kindreds of the earth. They
will enter the cities and will inspire with fear the hearts of all their
inhabitants. Such are the evidences of the might of God; how fearful, how
vehement is His might!”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah;
included in ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
