God hath in truth testified in His Book and so also have
testified the company of His angels, His Messengers and those endued with
divine knowledge, that thou hast believed in God and in His signs and that
everyone is guided aright by virtue of thy guidance. This is indeed a boundless
grace which God, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, hath graciously
conferred upon thee aforetime and will confer hereafter. And since thou didst
believe in God before the creation, He hath in truth, at His own behest, raised
thee up in every Revelation. There is no God but Him, the Sovereign Protector,
the All-Glorious.
It behooveth you to proclaim the Cause of God unto all
created things as a token of grace from His presence; no God is there but Him,
the Most Generous, the All-Compelling.
Say: All matters must be referred to the Book of God; I am
indeed the First to believe in God and in His signs; I am the One Who divulgeth
and proclaimeth the Truth and I have been invested with every excellent title
of God, the Mighty, the Incomparable. Verily I have attained the Day of the
First Manifestation and by the bidding of the Lord and as a token of His grace,
I shall attain the Day of the Latter Manifestation. There is no God but Him and
at the appointed hour everyone shall bow down unto Him in adoration.
- The Báb (From Tablet to the First Letter of the Living; ‘Selections from the Writings of
the Báb)
