This is an epistle from God, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting, unto Sulaymán in the land of Masqat, to the right of the Sea.
In truth there is none other God but Him, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting.… Indeed, were all the inhabitants of heaven and earth and
whatever existeth between them to assemble together, they would utterly fail
and be powerless to produce such a book, even though We made them masters of
eloquence and learning on earth. Since thou dost adduce proofs from the Qur’án,
God shall, with proofs from that self-same Book, vindicate Himself in the
Bayán. This is none other than a decree of God; He is truly the All-Knowing,
the All-Powerful.
- The Báb (From a Tablet to a Muslim cleric; ‘Selections from
the Writings of the Báb)
