In accordance with the explicit text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh hath made the Center of the Covenant the Interpreter of His Word - a Covenant so firm and mighty that from the beginning of time until the present day no religious Dispensation hath produced its like. ('Abdu'l-Bahá, cited by Shoghi Effendi in "The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh - Selected Letters The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, The Covenant)
