amal was one of those who read the text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas soon after it was revealed

amal was one of those who read the text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas soon after it was revealed. Bahá’u’lláh permitted him to copy some excerpts and share them with the believers. According to his own testimony, he asked Bahá’u’lláh to make him exempt from obedience to the laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Bahá’u’lláh granted him his wish and conveyed to him that he was free and did not have to obey the laws of that book.

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It is interesting to note that on one occasion when he was boasting about the freedom which Bahá’u’lláh had granted him, someone recited these words of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to him: 'Know ye that the embodiment of liberty and its symbol is the animal.'

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