ok of God as the arrogant one and the accursed.(43)
_Chapter LXVII._

"God, besides Whom there is none other true God, saith: ..."

God, besides Whom there is none other true God, saith: Indeed, whoso
visiteth the Remembrance of God after His passing, it is as though he hath
attained the presence of the Lord, seated upon His mighty Throne. Verily
this is the Way of God, the Most Exalted, which hath been irrevocably
decreed in the Mother Book...

Say, O peoples of the world! Do ye dispute with Me about God by virtue of
the names which ye and your fathers have adopted for Him at the promptings
of the Evil One?(44) God hath indeed sent down this Book unto Me with
truth that ye may be enabled to recognize the true names of God, inasmuch
as ye have strayed in error far from the Truth. Verily We have taken a
covenant from every created thing upon its coming into being concerning
the Remembrance of God, and there shall be none to avert the binding
command of God for the purification of mankind, as ordained in the Book
which is written by the hand of the Bab. _Chapter LXVIII._

"The people, during the absence of the Bab, re-enacted ..."

The people, during the absence of the Bab, re-enacted the episode of the
Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal features in
human form(45) ...

Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say: Verily the
knowledge of it is only with My Lord,(46) Who is the Knower of the unseen.
There is none other God but Him--He Who hath created you from a single
soul,(47) and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but
as My Lord pleaseth.(48) Indeed God is Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord,
standeth supreme over all things. _Chapter LXIX._

"Doth it seem strange to the people that We should have ..."

Doth it seem strange to the people that We should have revealed the Book
to a man from among themselves in order to purge them and give them the
good tidings that they shall be rewarded with a sure stance in the
presence of their Lord? He indeed beareth witness unto all things...

When the verses of this Book are recited to the infidels they say: 'Give
us a book like the Qur'an and make changes in the verses.' Say: 'God hath
not given Me that I should change them at My pleasure.' I follow only what
is revealed unto Me. Verily, I shall fear My Lord on the Day of
Separation, whose advent He hath, in very truth, irrevocably ordained.(49)
_Cha