sence of the One Who was the sole Object of their adoration
and love. To _Sh_ay_kh_ Hasan-i-Zunuzi He declared while in Mah-Ku that he
would behold in Karbila the countenance of the promised Husayn. On Dayyan
He conferred the title of "the third Letter to believe in Him Whom God
shall make manifest," while to Azim He divulged, in the
Kitab-i-Panj-_Sh_a'n, the name, and announced the approaching advent, of
Him Who was to consummate His own Revelation.

A successor or vicegerent the Bab never named, an interpreter of His
teachings He refrained from appointing. So transparently clear were His
references to the Promised One, so brief was to be the duration of His own
Dispensation, that neither the one nor the other was deemed necessary. All
He did was, according to the testimony of 'Abdu'l-Baha in "A Traveller's
Narrative," to nominate, on the advice of Baha'u'llah and of another
disciple, Mirza Yahya, who would act solely as a figure-head pending the
manifestation of the Promised One, thus enabling Baha'u'llah to promote,
in relative security, the Cause so dear to His heart.

"The Bayan," the Bab in that Book, referring to the Promised One, affirms,
"is, from beginning to end, the repository of all of His attributes, and
the treasury of both His fire and His light." "If thou attainest unto His
Revelation," He, in another connection declares, "and obeyest Him, thou
wilt have revealed the fruit of the Bayan; if not, thou art unworthy of
mention before God." "O people of the Bayan!" He, in that same Book, thus
warns the entire company of His followers, "act not as the people of the
Qur'an have acted, for if ye do so, the fruits of your night will come to
naught." "Suffer not the Bayan," is His emphatic injunction, "and all that
hath been revealed therein to withhold you from that Essence of Being and
Lord of the visible and invisible." "Beware, beware," is His significant
warning addressed to Vahid, "lest in the days of His Revelation the Vahid
of the Bayan (eighteen Letters of the Living and the Bab) shut thee out as
by a veil from Him, inasmuch as this Vahid is but a creature in His
sight." And again: "O congregation of the Bayan, and all who are therein!
Recognize ye the limits imposed upon you, for such a One as the Point of
the Bayan Himself hath believed in Him Whom God shall make manifest before
all things were created. Therein, verily, do I glory before all who are in
the kingdom of heaven and earth."

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