# The Station of the Kitab-i-Iqan

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> The Station of the Kitab-i-Iqan
> 
> Khazeh Fananapazir
> Seena Fazel
> 
> published in Bahá'í Studies Review3:1
> 
> London: Association for Bahá'í Studies English-Speaking Europe, 1993
> 
> It is the intention of this paper to present a review of the rank and
> station of the Kitáb-i-Íqán according to the primary
> Bahá'í literature - the writings of Bahá'u'lláh,
> 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi - and to provide a study outline
> of its contents.(1)
> 
> Bahá'u'lláh on the Íqán
> 
> In a number of texts Bahá'u'lláh emphasises the importance
> of the Íqán. For instance, Bahá'u'lláh states
> in a Tablet to Mírzá Abú'l-Fadl concerning questions
> of Manakji Limji Hataria, probably revealed between 1877 and 1882, that
> the Kitáb-i-Íqán is "the Lord of Books [Sayyid-i-Kutub]"(2)
> (Má'idiy-i-Ásmání 157, provisional translation).
> Furthermore in the Kitáb-i-Íqán itself, Bahá'u'lláh
> states that, "all the Scriptures, and the mysteries thereof are condensed
> into this brief account," (Íqán 237) and that it can
> unfold "all the allusions and the implications of the utterances of the
> Manifestations of Holiness" (Íqán 28). The following
> are a selection of such quotations:
> . . . the things We have already mentioned suffice the
> world and all that is therein. In fact, all the Scriptures, and the mysteries
> thereof are condensed into this brief account. So much so that were a person
> to ponder it a while in his heart, he would discover from all that hath
> been said the mysteries of the Words of God, and would apprehend the
> meaning of whatever hath been manifested by that ideal King. (Íqán
> 237, emphasis added)
> 
> Were you to ponder, but for a while, these utterances
> in your heart, you would surely find the portals of understanding unlocked
> before your face, and would behold all knowledge and mysteries thereof
> unveiled before your eyes. (ibid. 52, emphasis added, cf. 19)
> 
> This servant will now share with thee a dewdrop out of
> the fathomless ocean of the truths treasured in these holy words, that
> haply discerning hearts may comprehend all the allusions and the implications
> of the utterances of the Manifestations of Holiness, so that the overpowering
> majesty of the Word of God may not prevent them from attaining unto the
> ocean of His names and attributes, nor deprive them of recognising the
> Lamp of God which is the seat of the revelation of His glorified Essence.
> (ibid. 28, emphasis added)
> 
> Briefly, there hath been revealed in the Kitáb-i-Íqán
> (Book of Certitude) concerning the Presence and Revelation of God that
> which will suffice the fair-minded. (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
> 119, cf. 97, 168)
> 
> As to thy question that in the Religion of Zoroaster it
> is stated: "This (Zoroastrianism) is superior and better than the religions
> of the past." By this is meant superiority relative to the past. These
> sanctified Beings in one station are all one. Their first is the last and
> Their last is the first. All have come from God; all have summoned mankind
> to God, and all have returned to Him. These matters are revealed in the
> Kitáb-i-Íqán, which is in truth the Lord of Books
> [Sayyid-i-Kutub], the Book that has flowed from the Pen of the Most
> High. Blessed is the one who hath seen it and been a witness to its testimony
> and hath pondered its contents for the love of God, the Lord of mankind.
> (Má'idiy-i-Ásmání 157, provisional translation,
> emphasis added)
> 
> As to thy question on 'resurrection', in the Kitáb-i-Íqán
> is revealed that which is all-sufficing. (Majmú'ih 166, provisional
> translation)
> 
> Peruse thou the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book
> of Certitude) . . . that thou mayest be made aware of the things that
> have happened in the past, and be persuaded that We have not sought
> to spread disorder in the land after it had been well-ordered. (Epistle
> 97, and Tablets 210, emphasis added)
> 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Íqán
> 
> 'Abdu'l-Bahá refers to the Íqán on a number of
> occasions in explaining the concept of 'return'. For instance, in an explanation
> of the meaning of the "Second Coming of Christ and the Day of Judgement",
> he says: "Bahá'u'lláh has explained these verses in the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
> There is no need of repetition, refer to it, and you will understand these
> sayings" (Some Answered Questions 110). Other references include:
> The "return" which is mentioned in the bygone Scriptures
> is . . . fully explained by the Supreme Pen in the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
> Refer to it, so that you may be informed of the truth of the divine mysteries.
> (ibid. 289)
> 
> In the book of the Íqán we can read the
> Word of God concerning the true Reincarnation, which is the Return of the
> Spiritual Qualities in the Servants of God. (qtd. in Grundy, Ten Days
> 45)(3)
> Howard Colby Ives describes how 'Abdu'l-Bahá answers a question
> of his on the relationship of Christianity to the Bahá'í
> Faith by referring to the Íqán:
> . . . men have entirely forgotten the pure teachings
> of this "Essence of Severance" [Christ]. He ['Abdu'l-Bahá] remarked
> that His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh speaks of this in the Book
> of Certitude and that I should study it carefully. In that book is
> explained how these stars of the Heaven of Christ's Revelation have fallen
> to the earth of worldly desires. On their tongues the mention of God has
> often become an empty name; in their midst His Holy Word a dead letter.
> This condition is that to which Christ refers, He said, when He speaks
> of "oppression or affliction of the Last Days." (Ives, Portals 125)
> Also, in a talk at the home of the Kinneys in New York in 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá,
> in describing the contents of Bahá'u'lláh's writings, says
> of the Íqán:
> In the Kitáb-i-Íqán He has given
> expositions of the meanings of the Gospel and other heavenly Books. ('Abdu'l-Bahá,
> Promulgation 155)
> Shoghi Effendi on the Íqán
> 
> Shoghi Effendi has written that the Íqán is "the most
> fundamental book on the Bahá'í Revelation"(4)
> and the "most important book written on the spiritual significance of the
> Cause" (The Light of Divine Guidance, 37). It is a "book of unsurpassed
> pre-eminence among the writings of the Author of the Bahá'í
> Revelation" (Íqán, foreword), and "from a Bahá'í
> point of view [it is] far more important and significant than any other
> Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, with the exception of the Aqdas."(5)
> On many occasions Shoghi Effendi directed Bahá'ís to "read
> and read over again" the Íqán in their attempts to deepen
> in the Cause,(6) and he writes to George
> Townshend that "the book is so important that the most minute detail is
> worthy of consideration".(7)
> 
> The significance of the Íqán, he states, lies in the fact
> that it "is the most important book wherein Bahá'u'lláh explains
> the basic beliefs of the Faith",(8) and
> "contains the basic tenets of Faith"(9)
> and "the very essence of the Teachings, and because of its clarity and
> relative simplicity can greatly appeal to every thoughtful reader".(10)
> In it "the entire religious philosophy of the Cause is clearly sketched
> and every thoughtful student of religion cannot but be interested in it",(11)
> and it "explains the attitude of the Cause to the Prophets of God and their
> mission in the history of society,"(12)
> describes "the mystic unity of God and His Manifestations" (World Order
> 137, cf. Íqán 4) and "deepens the knowledge of the
> reader by acquainting him with some of the basic theological problems of
> the Faith. It is therefore indispensable for every student of the Movement".(13)
> It is "Bahá'u'lláh's masterful exposition of the one unifying
> truth underlying all the Revelations of the past" (World Order 61-2),
> and can lead the reader to "obtain a clear insight into the old scriptures
> and appreciate the true mission of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh".(14)
> In relation to the Báb's revelation, the Guardian states that "Nowhere
> but in the Kitáb-i-Íqán . . . can we obtain a clearer
> apprehension of the potency of those forces inherent in that Preliminary
> Manifestation . . ." (World Order 61-2). Shoghi Effendi emphasises
> the significance of the Íqán in the history of religions
> in the following way:
> Well may it be claimed that of all the books revealed
> by the Author of the Bahá'í Revelation, this Book alone,
> by sweeping away the age-long barriers that have so insurmountably separated
> the great religions of the world, has laid down a broad and unassailable
> foundation for the complete and permanent reconciliation of their followers.
> (God Passes By 139, emphasis added)
> Moreover Shoghi Effendi hoped that studying the Íqán would
> "infinitely enhance the teaching work in the West"(15)
> and that the "faith [of the Bahá'ís] would be re-inforced
> by a true intellectual understanding"(16)
> and "their comprehension of the essentials of the Faith" would be deepened.(17)
> 
> In an untranslated letter of Shoghi Effendi to the Persian Bahá'ís,
> he stated that despite the virtual extinction of Bábí support
> after the many horrendous persecutions, Bahá'u'lláh enunciated
> that the Cause of God will be victorious in the subsequent Dispensation
> which he inaugurated:
> After the establishment of the throne of the Lord of
> mankind in the City 'Abode of Peace', in His most excellent [mustatáb]
> Kitáb-i-Íqán, He describes the future of the unbelievers(18)
> . . . (Shoghi Effendi, Má'idiy-i-Ásmání
> 163-4, provisional translation)
> God Passes By explains the relationship of the Íqán
> to the other volumes of Bahá'u'lláh's revelation. It may
> be possible, in one perspective, to rank the following three works - the
> Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Kitáb-i-Íqán and The
> Hidden Words:
> Foremost among the priceless treasures cast forth from
> the billowing ocean of Bahá'u'lláh's Revelation ranks the
> Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude). . . This Book, setting
> forth in outline the Grand Redemptive Scheme of God, occupies a position
> unequalled by any work in the entire range of Bahá'í literature,
> except the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá'u'lláh's Most Holy
> Book. (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, 138-139)
> 
> Next to this unique repository of inestimable treasures
> [Kitáb-i-Íqán] must rank that marvellous collection
> of gem-like utterances, the Hidden Words. . . (ibid. 139-140)
> Furthermore, Shoghi Effendi indicates that there are three volumes of Bahá'u'lláh's
> writings that can be considered the most important in their category: the
> Kitáb-i-Íqán as the pre-eminent "doctrinal" work,
> The Hidden Words as the foremost of his "ethical" writings,
> and the Seven Valleys as his "greatest mystical composition":
> To these two outstanding contributions to the world's
> religious literature [Kitáb-i-Íqán and The
> Hidden Words], occupying respectively, positions of unsurpassed
> pre-eminence among the doctrinal and ethical writings of the Author of
> the Bahá'í Dispensation, was added, during that same period,
> a treatise that may well be regarded as His greatest mystical composition,
> designated as the "Seven Valleys,". . . (ibid. 139-140)
> At a time when the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is reaching the Bahá'í
> world through its first authoritative translation with "its world-shaking
> significance" (Universal House of Justice, Ridván 1992 message),
> it is noteworthy that the Universal House of Justice refers to "the incomparable
> Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh" and directs our attention to "all
> that has flowed from His prodigious, truth-bearing pen" (letter to the
> Bahá'ís of the world, 5 March 1993).
> 
> Discussion
> 
> Although the primary Bahá'í literature reiterates the
> importance of the Kitáb-i-Íqán, it is possible to
> see that these writings have also placed complementary emphases on the
> subject matter of the work. Bahá'u'lláh, in the Íqán
> itself, primarily discusses its potential to elucidate and interpret Scripture.
> 'Abdu'l-Bahá focuses on its Christian relevance, relating it to
> the North American culture in which he was living and teaching at the time.
> Shoghi Effendi, however, emphasises its importance in clarifying basic
> Bahá'í tenets and the essence of Bahá'í belief.
> The beloved Guardian also makes the bold claim that it provides the means
> to reconcile the theological barriers between religions.
> 
> It is interesting that Bahá'í writers in the West have
> focused on the Íqán as explaining the Bahá'í
> approach to other religions. Three examples are worthy of mention. Hippolyte
> Dreyfus' introduction to his 1908 translation of the Íqán
> into French, presents it as a work which "examines the writings of Moses,
> of Muhammad and Jesus, analyses certain passages of Scripture, . . . and
> demonstrates the Unity that connects all the divine Manifestations" (Introduction
> xi). George Townshend, who is perhaps the first Western Bahá'í
> to apply the Íqán in a scholarly manner to his work, says,
> in a letter to Shoghi Effendi, that The Heart of the Gospel "applies
> the principles of the Ighan [sic] to the Bible; and the introduction
> [to The Heart of the Gospel] makes this statement" (qtd. in Hofman,
> Townshend 281). His analysis, in the introduction to the 1939 edition,
> emphasises that the Íqán is a work explaining the concept
> of the progressiveness of Divine revelation, and expands and elaborates
> this principle of the Bible "in a more modern manner and with more of philosophic
> detail" (qtd. in ibid. 272). Helen Reed Bishop's introduction to the 1950
> English edition makes the observation that the Íqán argues
> against the Christian rejection of Islam, and consequently the work illustrates
> to "Westerners . . . how vital was Islám's part in the unity of
> religion" (Introduction, xx).
> 
> Few writers, however, have stressed the spiritual experience and rewards
> of reading the Íqán. The only description of this
> that the authors have been able to find was Arthur Agnew's back in 1907:
> At times when reading the Book of Ighan . . .
> the spirit of light, joy and gladness has come over me, which I have not
> been able to ascribe to any word or sentence or to any one idea or thought.
> It seemed like a radiance arising from the Book, from the Certainty of
> Truth. (Agnew, Wonderland 81)
> 
> Works Cited
> 
> 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Promulgation of Universal Peace:
> Talks delivered by 'Abdu'l-Bahá during His visit to the United States
> and Canada in 1912. 2d. ed. Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing
> Trust, 1982.
> 
> ___. Some Answered Questions. Rev. ed. Wilmette:
> Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1984.
> 
> Agnew, A.S. "In Wonderland", in In Galilee by
> T. Chase. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1985.
> 
> Aids for the Study of the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
> n.p., n.d. [198-] (privately published)
> 
> Bahá'u'lláh. Epistle to the Son of the
> Wolf. Trans. Shoghi Effendi. Rev. ed. Wilmette: Bahá'í
> Publishing Trust, 1979.
> 
> ___. Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of
> Certitude. Trans. Shoghi Effendi. Rev. ed. Wilmette: Bahá'í
> Publishing Trust, 1983.
> 
> ___. 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. Má'dih-yi
> Ásmání. Ed. Ishráq-khávarí.
> Tehran: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 129 B.E./1972-73.
> 
> Balyuzi, H.M. Bahá'u'lláh, The King
> of Glory. Oxford: George Ronald, 1980.
> 
> Bishop, Helen Reed. "Introduction" to the Kitáb-i-Íqán:
> The Book of Certitude. 2d edition. Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing
> Trust, 1950.
> 
> Dreyfus, Hippolyte. "Introduction" to Le Livre de
> la Certitude (Kitábou'l Íqán). Repr. Paris: Librairie
> Ernest Leroux, 1928.
> 
> Grundy, J.M. Ten Days in the Light of 'Akká.
> Rev. ed. Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1979.
> 
> Hofman, D. George Townshend. Oxford: George Ronald,
> 1983.
> 
> The Importance of Deepening our Knowledge and Understanding
> of the Faith. Comp. The Universal House of Justice. Wilmette: Bahá'í
> Publishing Trust, 1983.
> 
> Ives. H.C. Portals to Freedom. Repr. Oxford: George
> Ronald, 1983.
> 
> "Know Your Bahá'í Literature: Kitáb-i-Íqán
> or The Book of Certitude." American Bahá'í, January
> 1965.
> 
> Shoghi Effendi. God Passes By. Rev. ed. Wilmette:
> Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1974.
> 
> ___. The Light of Divine Guidance: The Messages from
> the Guardian to the Bahá'ís of Germany and Austria. Vol.1.
> Hofheim-Langenhain: Bahá'í-Verlag, 1982.
> 
> ___. The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh:
> Selected Letters. Rev. ed. Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing
> Trust, 1974.
> 
> Taherzadeh, A. The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh:
> Baghdad, 1853-63. Vol. 1. Oxford: George Ronald, 1974.
> 
> Appendix 1: An Index
> 
> The present editions of the Íqán do not contain an outline
> to its contents. The following one is suggested in an article in The
> American Bahá'í (January 1965, p.7):
> 
> Part One
> 
> 1. To attain the knowledge of God one must put one's trust in Him and
> disregard the standards of men (3-14).
> 
> 2. The reasons for failure to recognise and accept the Manifestations
> of God (14-89).
> 
> 3. In this age the story of past Dispensations is being repeated (13-83).
> 
> 4. The people of the Bayán should take warning not to forget
> the wishes and admonitions of their own Book lest they inflict on the Manifestation
> of God what was inflicted before (92-93).
> 
> Part Two
> 
> 1. The Manifestations reveal an all-compelling power (97-139).
> 
> 2. The greatest of blessings is to attain the presence of the Manifestation
> of God in the Day of the Resurrection (139-147).
> 
> 3. In each Dispensation there occurs a return of the qualities exhibited
> in earlier Dispensations (148-161).
> 
> 4. All the Divine Manifestations are at the same time the First and
> the Last, the Beginning and the End (161-175).
> 
> 5. The Manifestations of God each have a twofold station: the Station
> of Unity and the Station of Distinction (152-154, 176-181).
> 
> 6. The Seeker must turn to the Prophets (182-191).
> 
> 7. The Seeker and his requirements (192-195).
> 
> 8. The Seeker will be transformed (196-199).
> 
> 9. By the "City of Certitude" is meant the Word of God which is the
> greatest testimony and proof of the Manifestation (199-211).
> 
> 10. The peoples of every age at the end of their Dispensation, afflicted
> with the same spiritual disease, believe their Manifestation to be the
> Final One (135-137, 213-221).
> 
> 11. Proofs of the Revelation of God in this age (221-257).
> 
> Appendix 2: Thematic Guide
> 
> Shoghi Effendi in God Passes By (139) sets forth the major themes
> of the Kitáb-i-Íqán. The following is a list,
> reproduced from Aids for the Study of the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
> (Section IV), with suggested page references to the text opposite:
> 
> 1. Proclaims unequivocally:
> the existence and oneness of a personal God (91, 99,
> 176)
> 
> Unknowable (52, 90, 98-99, 142)
> 
> Inaccessible (53, 98-99, 141)
> 
> the source of all Revelation (99, 100)
> 
> Eternal (9, 16, 17, 135)
> 
> Omniscient (98, 170)
> 
> Omnipresent (55, 67, 97, 125, 126)
> 
> Almighty (170, 176, 206, 219, 243)
> 2. Asserts:
> a) the relativity of religious truth (98-99)
> 
> b) the continuity of Divine Revelation (14, 23)
> 3. Affirms:
> a) the unity of the Prophets (20-22, 99, 103-104, 107,
> 152-154, 161-164, 176-177)
> 
> b) the universality of their Message (210, 240)
> 
> c) the identity of their fundamental teachings (21, 38-39,
> 177)
> 
> d) the sanctity of their scriptures (197-200, 205-206)
> 
> e) the twofold character of their stations (21, 150,
> 152-154, 176-181)
> 4. Denounces the blindness and perversity (15-16, 36, 81-83,
> 108)
> of the divines and doctors of every age (122, 164-166,
> 182-184, 210, 214, 247)
> 5. Cites and elucidates:
> a) the allegorical passages of the New Testament (24-80)
> 
> b) the abstruse verses of the Qur'án (255)
> 
> c) and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which have bred those age-long
> misunderstandings, doubts, and animosities that have sundered and kept
> apart the followers of the world's leading religious systems (162,
> 184-188, 201, 238)
> 6. Enumerates the essential pre-requisites for the attainment (3,
> 70, 120, 192-196)
> by every true seeker of the object of his quest (211)
> 7. Demonstrates the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's
> Revelation (229-234)
> 
> 8. Acclaims the heroism and detachment of His disciples (222,
> 235-236)
> 
> 9. Foreshadows and prophecies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation
> promised to the people of the Bayán (77-78, 93)
> 
> 10. Upholds the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary (56-57)
> 
> 11. Glorifies the Imáms of the Faith of Muhammad (35,
> 39, 106, 144, 153)
> 
> 12. Celebrates the martyrdom and lauds the spiritual sovereignty of
> the Imám Husayn 126-129
> 
> 13. Unfolds the meaning of such symbolic terms as:
> a) "Return" 151-161
> 
> b) "Resurrection" 116, 118, 144, 170
> 
> c) "Seal of the Prophets" 162, 169, 179, 213
> 
> d) "Day of Judgement" 116
> 14. Adumbrates and distinguishes between 100-102, 139-142
> the three stages of Divine Revelation 169, 201
> 15. Expatiates in glorious terms upon the glories and wonders of the "City
> of God", renewed at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence,
> for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind 196-200
> 
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> End Notes (Press "Back" to return to article.)
> 
> 1. For background historical information
> on the Íqán, see Balyuzi, Bahá'u'lláh
> 163-5, and Taherzadeh, Revelation (Vol. 1) 153-9.
> 
> 2. The word 'sayyid' in this
> verse can also be translated as 'prince' and 'sovereign'.
> 
> 3. This reference and the next one
> from Portals to Freedom are not authenticated statements of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
> 
> 4. Appended in his own handwriting
> to a letter written on his behalf dated 9 June 1932.
> 
> 5. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi dated 2 December 1936.
> 
> 6. For instance, the following letters
> written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi state:
> 
> "He fully approves the idea of holding study classes,
> for the deeper the friends go in their understanding of their teachings
> the more firm and steadfast they will become and the more unwavering in
> their support of the institutions of the Faith. Books such as the Íqán,
> "Some Answered Questions" and the "Dawn-Breakers" should be mastered by
> every Bahá'í. They should read these books over and over
> again. The first two Books will reveal to them the significance of this
> divine revelation as well as the unity of all the Prophets of Old."
> (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer
> dated 9 June 1932, qtd. in Deepening no. 106).
> 
> "Books such as the Íqán, Some Answered
> Questions, the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Nabíl's Narrative,
> and Dr. Esslemont's Book should be read and read over again by every soul
> who desires to serve the Movement or considers himself an active member
> of the group." (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to
> an individual believer dated 9 November 1932, qtd. in Deepening
> no. 109).
> 
> 7. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to George Townshend [n.d.], qtd. in Hofman, Townshend
> 73.
> 
> 8. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to a National Spiritual Assembly dated 28 June 1930.
> 
> 9. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi dated 14 January 1933 to the Bahá'í youth
> in London.
> 
> 10. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 1 October 1933.
> 
> 11. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 2 December 1933.
> 
> 12. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 9 February 1932.
> 
> 13. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 1 October 1933.
> 
> 14. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to a Local Spiritual Assembly dated 27 March 1931, qtd.
> in Deepening no. 97.
> 
> 15. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to a National Spiritual Assembly dated 28 June 1930.
> It noteworthy that in the Íqán, Bahá'u'lláh
> exemplifies the teaching method on pages 40 and 173.
> 
> 16. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 31 December 1932.
> 
> 17. From a letter written on behalf
> of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 7 August 1934.
> 
> 18. Shoghi Effendi then quotes the
> following from the Íqán: "The more they are told that this
> wondrous Cause of God, this Revelation from the Most High, hath been made
> manifest to all mankind, and is waxing greater and stronger every day,
> the fiercer groweth the blaze of the fire in their hearts. The more they
> observe the indomitable strength, the sublime renunciation, the unwavering
> constancy of God's holy companions, who, by the aid of God, are growing
> nobler and more glorious every day, the deeper the dismay which ravageth
> their souls. In these days, praise be to God, the power of His Word hath
> obtained such ascendancy over men, that they dare breathe no word... Ere
> long, thine eyes will behold the standards of divine power unfurled throughout
> all regions, and the signs of His triumphant might and sovereignty manifest
> in every land." (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán
> 77-78)
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