Selections from the Writings of the Báb

2 EXCERPTS FROM THE QAYYÚMU'L-ASMÁ

THE people, during the ...

THE people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted the episode of the Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal features in human form[cf. ibid. 7:146; 20:90]...

Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say: Verily the knowledge of it is only with My Lord,[cf. ibid. 7:186] Who is the Knower of the unseen. There is none other God but Him--He Who hath created you from a single soul,[cf. ibid. 4:1] and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth.[cf. ibid. 10:50] Indeed God is Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord, standeth supreme over all things.