'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Station of Those Who Deny the Appointed Interpreter

“He hath made us assemble under the Shadow of the Tree of the Covenant and under the flag of the Testament confessing His Oneness, Singleness, Greatness, Power and Might, which have spread and shown forth upon all side and regions while all the enemies bore witness to His Greatness, the supremacy of His Word, the success of His Authenticity, the Power of His Teachings and the rapidity of their divulgence, so that in His Day His Name became universally known in such a case which had never happened before in the days of the past Dawning-Places with such good success and victorious power. We beseech God to make us prosperous for doing His Will, acting on his Precepts, keeping His Ordinances, sincere in His Cause. Clothe ourselves with His Characteristics and Heavenly Attributes, and overflowed with the abundance of His Divine Bounty. We thank Him for His Bounty, Liberality and Beneficence and for that He hath elucidated before us His Right-Path, made clear for us the Straight Way, prepared for us a Light to be guided by in the darkest night, established for us the Great Covenant and distinctly pointed out by the Trace of His Supreme Pen the Manifested Center (which is clearly stated by the Manifestation as the confirmed establishment), the Commentator of His Signs (verses), the explainer of His Words, the dissolver of the dilemma of all the difficult questions, the vanisher of the suspicions of the ancient and modern (people), the annihilator of the contrariness from all the regions because His utterances are the only true facts and the permanent reality which is explicitly recorded in the Kitab-i-Ahd (Book of the Covenant) and Kitab el-Akdas* (The Book of the Laws). He said, and what he said is the Truth: “Return what ye do not know in the Book to the one who is branched from their Ancient Root,” and in the Kitab-i-Ahd He hath conclusively said: “It is intended by the branched One to be the Manifested Center, who is known, famous and praiseworthy amongst all the sects and the nations and through all the countries and regions; so that the feet should not deviate when the Sun of Truth disappears, so that the aberrant people would not lay the suspicions for the purpose of satisfying their passions and lusts. How wonderful! All these Divine Ordinances are well known and admitted by all without the slightest doubt to any single soul, even by all the other creeds of all regions, yet some deceivers (hypocrites), in order to create discord in the Cause of God and attain the seductions of the world, have denied after they had believed, boasted after they had submitted, disavowed after they had confessed, and doubted after they had praised; accordingly they are destroyed in the waterless desert of loss, and gone astray in the wilderness of contempt and shame. Alas! For them on account of the future. Ah, men, I say unto ye that their loss, indeed, is the same as the loss of the Pharisees, and their contempt is that of the soothsayers of Baal in the time of Elijah the Israelite.” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas (1900). Tablets Revealed by the Blessed Perfection and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas Brought to This Country by Haji Mirza Hassan, Mirza Assad’ullah, and Mirza Hussien*. New York: Board of Counsel, pp.7-8. *Spelling in original

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