f you will seek
guidance while pursuing the promptings of your own desires. Some of you
are filled with pride by reason of your religion, others because of your
learning. Ye will, one and all, cling unto some part of the Bayan as a
means of self-glorification. XVI, 19.(71)

"God is sanctified from His servants and no direct relationship ..."

God is sanctified from His servants and no direct relationship ever
existeth between Him and any created thing, while ye have all arisen at
His bidding. Verily He is your Lord and your God, your Master and your
King. He ordaineth your movements at His behest throughout the day-time
and in the night season.

Say, He Whom God shall make manifest is indeed the Primal Veil of God.
Above this Veil ye can find nothing other than God, while beneath it ye
can discern all things emanating from God. He is the Unseen, the
Inaccessible, the Most Exalted, the Best Beloved.

If ye seek God, it behooveth you to seek Him Whom God shall make manifest,
and if ye cherish the desire to dwell in the Ark of Names, ye will be
distinguished as the guides to Him Whom God shall make manifest, did ye
but believe in Him. Verily then make your hearts the daysprings of His
exalted Names as recorded in the Book, and ye shall, even as mirrors
placed before the sun, be able to receive enlightenment. XVI, 17.

"Should a person lay claim to a cause and produce his ..."

Should a person lay claim to a cause and produce his proofs, then those
who seek to repudiate him are required to produce proofs like unto his. If
they succeed in doing so, his words will prove vain and they will prevail;
otherwise neither his words will cease nor the proofs he hath set forth
will become void. I admonish you, O ye who are invested with the Bayan, if
ye would fain assert your ascendancy, confront not any soul unless ye give
proofs similar to that which he hath adduced; for Truth shall be firmly
established, while aught else besides it is sure to perish.

How numerous the people who engaged in contests with Muhammad, the Apostle
of God, and were eventually reduced to naught, inasmuch as they were
powerless to bring forth proofs similar to that which God had sent down
unto Him. Had they been abashed and modest, and had they realized the
nature of the proofs wherewith He was invested, they would never have
challenged Him. But they regarded themselves as champions of their own
religion. Therefore God laid hold on the