"What aileth this people that they speak of that which they
understand not? They raise the same objections as did the followers of the
Qur'án when their Lord came unto them with His Cause. They, verily, are a
rejected people. They hindered others from appearing before Him Who is the
Ancient Beauty, and from sharing the bread of His loved ones. "Approach
them not," one was even heard to say, "for they cast a spell upon the
people and lead them astray from the path of God, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting." By the righteousness of the one true God! He who is
incapable of speaking in Our presence hath uttered such words as none among the
former generations hath ever spoken, and hath committed such acts as none of
the unbelievers of bygone ages hath ever committed."
Comments
- As we explored in the previous paragraph: Baha’u’llah made us aware of some of the indignities that He, as the Manifestation of God, was subjected to, by a group of people that He designates as “infidels”. These individuals, Baha’u’llah reminds us, were those who “repudiated His Self” and rose up “against His Cause”, and claimed that His divine verses were “contrived”.
- In this Paragraph, Baha’u’llah elaborates further on the words and influence exerted by such individuals. As we read and reflect on Baha’u’llah’s explanation, one may wonder how many people continue to act in this way and to what degree this will increase as the Cause of God continues to grow in future.
- The pitiful plight of such people becomes very obvious when we read Baha’u’llah’s remarks that: “they speak of that which they understand not”.
- These people, according to Baha’u’llah, provided two main obstacles:
- “They hindered others from appearing before Him Who is the Ancient Beauty [Baha’u’llah, the latest Manifestation of God], and
- from sharing the bread of His loved ones.”
