ss grace which God, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, hath
graciously conferred upon thee aforetime and will confer hereafter. And
since thou didst believe in God before the creation, He hath in truth, at
His own behest, raised thee up in every Revelation. There is no God but
Him, the Sovereign Protector, the All-Glorious.

It behooveth you to proclaim the Cause of God unto all created things as a
token of grace from His presence; no God is there but Him, the Most
Generous, the All-Compelling.

Say: All matters must be referred to the Book of God; I am indeed the
First to believe in God and in His signs; I am the One Who divulgeth and
proclaimeth the Truth and I have been invested with every excellent title
of God, the Mighty, the Incomparable. Verily I have attained the Day of
the First Manifestation and by the bidding of the Lord and as a token of
His grace, I shall attain the Day of the Latter Manifestation. There is no
God but Him and at the appointed hour everyone shall bow down unto Him in
adoration.

I render thanks and yield praise unto God for having been chosen by Him as
the Exponent of His Cause in bygone days and in the days to come; there is
none other God save Him, the Glorified, the All-Praised, the Ever-Abiding.
Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth is His and through Him are we
guided aright.

O people of the Bayan! Those who embrace the Truth must turn unto Me, as
ordained in the Book and divine guidance will be vouchsafed to whosoever
attaineth My presence.

Extracts From An Epistle To Muhammad Shah

The substance wherewith God hath created Me is not the clay out of which
others have been formed. He hath conferred upon Me that which the
worldly-wise can never comprehend, nor the faithful discover ... I am one
of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God. Whosoever hath
recognized Me, hath known all that is true and right, and hath attained
all that is good and seemly; and whosoever hath failed to recognize Me,
hath turned away from all that is true and right and hath succumbed to
everything evil and unseemly.

I swear by the righteousness of Thy Lord, the Lord of all created things,
the Lord of all the worlds! Were a man to rear in this world as many
edifices as possible and worship God through every virtuous deed which
God's knowledge embraceth, and attain the presence of the Lord, and were
he, even to a measure less than that which is accountable before God, to
bear