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the Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb (1976)

# “Better is it for a person to write down but one of His ...”

*From the Bahai Story Library — drawn from* **Selections from the Writings of the Báb** *by the Báb* (1976).

> "Better is it for a person to write down but one of His"

Better is it for a person to write down but one of His verses than to transcribe the whole of the Bayán and all the books which have been written in the Dispensation of the Bayán. For everything shall be set aside except His Writings,…

Better is it for a person to write down but one of His verses than to transcribe the whole of the Bayán and all the books which have been written in the Dispensation of the Bayán. For everything shall be set aside except His Writings, which will endure until the following Revelation. And should anyone inscribe with true faith but one letter of that Revelation, his recompense would be greater than for inscribing all the heavenly Writings of the past and all that has been written during previous Dispensations. […]

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