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the One Who incarnateth in Himself the kingdom
of utterance. Fear God, O people, and peruse, then,
that which hath been sent down with truth in the
eighth Chapter of the sixth Vahíd of the Bayán, and
be not of such as have turned aside. He, likewise,
hath commanded: "Once every nineteen days this
Chapter should be read, that haply they may not be
veiled, in the time of the revelation of Him Whom
God shall make manifest, by considerations foreign
to the verses, which have been, and are still, the
weightiest of all proofs and testimonies."
John, son of Zacharias, said what My Forerunner
hath said: "Saying, repent ye, for the Kingdom
of heaven is at hand. I indeed baptize you with
water unto repentance, but He that cometh after Me
is mightier than I, Whose shoes I am not worthy to
bear." Wherefore, hath My Forerunner, as a sign of
submissiveness and humility, said: "The whole of the
Bayán is only a leaf amongst the leaves of His Paradise."
And likewise, He saith: "I am the first to
adore Him, and pride Myself on My kinship with
Him." And yet, O men, the people of the Bayán
have acted in such a manner that Dhi'l-Jawshan, and
Ibn-i-Anas, and Asbáhí have sought and still seek
refuge with God against such deeds. This Wronged
One hath, in the face of all religions, busied Himself
day and night with the things that are conducive unto
the exaltation of the Cause of God, whereas those men
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