Notes to Aqdas, Sentence #87

Notes from the Authorized Translation

62. Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years # 37
The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah will last until the coming of the next Manifestation of God, Whose advent will not take place before at least "a full thousand years" will have elapsed. Baha'u'llah cautions against ascribing to "this verse" anything other than its "obvious meaning", and in one of His Tablets, He specifies that "each year" of this thousand year period consists of "twelve months according to the Qur'an, and of nineteen months of nineteen days each, according to the Bayan".

The intimation of His Revelation to Baha'u'llah in the Siyah-Chal of Tihran, in October 1852, marks the birth of His Prophetic Mission and hence the commencement of the one thousand years or more that must elapse before the appearance of the next Manifestation of God.

Earl Elder's Notes

2. The word amr means "a command, a thing" and is also used by Baha'is to designate their religion or cause. The meaning here seems to be that anyone who claims command before the end of a thousand years is a false prophet. To prevent someone from appearing after a few years with the claim that he is a new Manifestation, and the interpretation of a "thousand years" as meaning a thousand days or something else, Baha'u'llah insists that the plain meaning of the words is the correct meaning.

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