Where else if not in the Kitáb-i-Íqán can the student of the
Bábí Dispensation seek to find those affirmations that unmistakably attest the
power and spirit which no man, except he be a Manifestation of God, can
manifest? “Could such a thing,” exclaims Bahá’u’lláh, “be made manifest except
through the power of a Divine Revelation and the potency of God’s invincible
Will? By the righteousness of God! Were any one to entertain so great a
Revelation in his heart the thought of such a declaration would alone confound
him! Were the hearts of all men to be crowded into his heart, he would still
hesitate to venture upon so awful an enterprise.” “No eye,” He in another
passage affirms, “hath beheld so great an outpouring of bounty, nor hath any
ear heard of such a Revelation of loving-kindness... The Prophets ‘endowed with
constancy,’ whose loftiness and glory shine as the sun,
were each honored with a Book which all have seen, and the verses of which have
been duly ascertained. Whereas the verses which have rained from this Cloud of
divine mercy have been so abundant that none hath yet been able to estimate
their number... How can they belittle this Revelation? Hath any age witnessed
such momentous happenings?” (Shoghi Effendi, ‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’)
