But for the sole reason of His being present amongst this
people, We would have neither prescribed any law nor laid down any prohibition.
It is only for the glorification of His Name and the exaltation of His Cause
that We have enunciated certain laws at Our behest, or forbidden the acts to
which We are averse, so that at the hour of His manifestation ye may attain
through Him the good-pleasure of God and abstain from the things that are
abhorrent unto Him.
- The Báb (From the ‘Kitáb-i-Asmá’ [The Book of Names];
‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
