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Bahai Story Library
Not the Work of Man
“Were all the people that dwell on earth to assemble together, they would be unable to produce a single verse like unto the ones which God hath caused to stream forth from the tongue of the Point of the Bayán.”
In this Revelation the Lord of the universe hath deigned
to bestow His mighty utterances and resplendent signs upon the Point
of the Bayán, and hath ordained them as His matchless
testimony for all created things. Were all the people that dwell on
earth to assemble together, they would be unable to produce a single
verse like unto the ones which God hath caused to stream forth from
the tongue of the Point of the Bayán.
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Indeed, if any living
creature were to pause to meditate he would undoubtedly realize that
these verses are not the work of man, but are solely to be ascribed
unto God, the One, the Peerless, Who causeth them to flow forth from
the tongue of whomsoever He willeth, and hath not revealed nor will
He reveal them save through the Focal Point of God’s Primal
Will.
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He it is, through Whose dispensations divine Messengers are
raised up and heavenly Books are sent down. Had human beings been
able to accomplish this deed surely someone would have brought forth
at least one verse during the period of twelve hundred and seventy
years which hath elapsed since the revelation of the Qur’án
until that of the Bayán.
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However, all men have proved
themselves impotent and have utterly failed to do so, although they
endeavoured, with their vehement might, to quench the flame of the
Word of God. II, 1.