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In a communication addressed to the American believers I have in the course of my explanation of the station of the Bab made a passing reference to the incomparable greatness of the Revelation of which He considered Himself to be the humble Precursor. He Whom Baha'u'llah has acclaimed in the Kitab-i-Iqan as that promised Qa'im Who has manifested no less than twenty-five out of the twenty-seven letters which all the Prophets were destined to reveal so great a Revealer has Himself testified to the preeminence of that superior Revelation that was soon to supersede His own. "The germ," the Bab asserts in the Persian Bayan, "that holds within itself the potentialities of the Revelation that is to come is endowed with a potency superior to the combined forces of all those who follow me." "Of all the tributes," He again affirms, "I have paid to Him Who is to come after Me, the greatest is this, My written confession, that no words of Mine can adequately describe Him, nor can any reference to Him in My Book, the Bayan, do justice to His Cause." "The Bayan," He in that same Book categorically declares, "and whosoever is therein revolve round the saying of 'Him Whom God shall make manifest,' even as the Alif (the Gospel) and whosoever was therein revolved round the saying of Muhammad, the Apostle of God." "A thousand perusals of the Bayan," He further remarks, "cannot equal the perusal of a single verse to be revealed by "Him Whom God shall make manifest.' ... Today the Bayan is in the stage of seed; at the beginning of the manifestation of 'Him Whom God shall make manifest' its ultimate perfection will become apparent... The Bayan and such as are believers therein yearn more ardently after Him than the yearning of any lover after his beloved... The Bayan deriveth all its glory from 'Him Whom God shall make manifest.' All blessing be upon him who believeth in Him and woe betide him that rejecteth His truth."
(100:2)
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