All praise be to God Who hath, through the power of Truth,
sent down this Book unto His servant, that it may serve as a shining light for
all mankind.… Verily this is none other than the sovereign Truth; it is the Path
which God hath laid out for all that are in heaven and on earth. Let him then
who will, take for himself the right path unto his Lord. Verily this is the
true Faith of God, and sufficient witness are God and such as are endowed with
the knowledge of the Book. This is indeed the eternal Truth which God, the
Ancient of Days, hath revealed unto His omnipotent Word—He Who hath been raised
up from the midst of the Burning Bush. This is the Mystery which hath been
hidden from all that are in heaven and on earth, and in this wondrous
Revelation it hath, in very truth, been set forth in the Mother Book by the
hand of God, the Exalted.…
- The Báb (From the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’; ‘Selections from
the Writings of the Báb)
