inality for His own Revelation,
Baha'u'llah inculcates the basic principle of the relativity of religious
truth, the continuity of Divine Revelation, the progressiveness of
religious experience. His aim is to widen the basis of all revealed
religions and to unravel the mysteries of their scriptures. He insists on
the unqualified recognition of the unity of their purpose, restates the
eternal verities they enshrine, coordinates their functions, distinguishes
the essential and the authentic from the nonessential and spurious in
their teachings, separates the God-given truths from the priest-prompted
superstitions, and on this as a basis proclaims the possibility, and even
prophecies the inevitability, of their unification, and the consummation
of their highest hopes.

As to Muhammad, the Apostle of God, let none among His followers who read
these pages, think for a moment that either Islam, or its Prophet, or His
Book, or His appointed Successors, or any of His authentic teachings, have
been, or are to be in any way, or to however slight a degree, disparaged.
The lineage of the Bab, the descendant of the Imam Husayn; the divers and
striking evidences, in Nabil's Narrative, of the attitude of the Herald of
our Faith towards the Founder, the Imams, and the Book of Islam; the
glowing tributes paid by Baha'u'llah in the Kitab-i-Iqan to Muhammad and
His lawful Successors, and particularly to the "peerless and incomparable"
Imam Husayn; the arguments adduced, forcibly, fearlessly, and publicly by
'Abdu'l-Baha, in churches and synagogues, to demonstrate the validity of
the Message of the Arabian Prophet; and last but not least the written
testimonial of the Queen of Rumania, who, born in the Anglican faith and
notwithstanding the close alliance of her government with the Greek
Orthodox Church, the state religion of her adopted country, has, largely
as a result of the perusal of these public discourses of 'Abdu'l-Baha,
been prompted to proclaim her recognition of the prophetic function of
Muhammad--all proclaim, in no uncertain terms, the true attitude of the
Baha'i Faith towards its parent religion.

"God," is her royal tribute, "is All, everything. He is the power behind
all beginnings.... His is the Voice within us that shows us good and evil.
But mostly we ignore or misunderstand this voice. Therefore, did He choose
His Elect to come down amongst us upon earth to make clear His Word, His
real meaning. Therefore, the Prophets;