e Point of the Bayan--exalted is His
glory. He pronounced the First One(62) to believe in Him to be Muhammad,
the Messenger of God. Doth it beseem a man to dispute with Him by saying
that this man is from Persia, the Other from Arabia, or this one was
called Husayn while the Other bore the name of Muhammad? Nay, I swear by
God's holy Being, the Exalted, the Most Great. Surely no man of
intelligence and insight would ever pay attention unto limitations or
names, but rather unto that with which Muhammad was invested, which was
none other than the Cause of God. Such a man of insight would likewise
consider Husayn and the position he occupied in the Cause of God, the
Omnipotent, the Exalted, the Knowing, the Wise. And since the First One to
believe in God in the Dispensation of the Bayan was invested with command
similar to that with which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was invested,
therefore the Bab pronounced him to be the latter, namely His return and
resurrection. This station is sanctified from every limitation or name,
and naught can be seen therein but God, the One, the Peerless, the
All-Knowing.

Know thou moreover that in the Day of Revelation were He to pronounce one
of the leaves to be the manifestation of all His excellent titles, unto no
one is given the right to utter why or wherefore, and should one do so he
would be regarded as a disbeliever in God and be numbered with such as
have repudiated His Truth.

Beware, beware lest thou behave like unto the people of the Bayan. For
indeed they erred grievously, misguided the people, ignored the Covenant
of God and His Testament and joined partners with Him, the One, the
Incomparable, the All-Knowing. Verily they failed to recognize the Point
of the Bayan, for had they recognized Him they would not have rejected His
manifestation in this luminous and resplendent Being. And since they fixed
their eyes on names, therefore when He replaced His Name 'the Most
Exalted' by 'the Most Glorious' their eyes were dimmed. They have failed
to recognize Him in these days and are reckoned with those that perish.
Indeed, had they known Him through His own Self or by virtue of that which
He hath revealed, they would not have repudiated Him when He appeared in
this glorious and incomparable Name, which God hath ordained to be the
Sword of His Revelation between heaven and earth, and through which truth
is separated from error, even from now until the Day when mankind shall
stand be