A certain Muhammad Karím, a native of Shíráz, who had
been a witness to the rapidity and the manner in which the Báb had penned the
verses with which He was inspired, has left the following testimony to
posterity, after attaining, during those days [in Baghdad], the presence of
Bahá’u’lláh, and beholding with his own eyes what he himself had considered to
be the only proof of the mission of the Promised One: “I bear witness that the
verses revealed by Bahá’u’lláh were superior, in the rapidity with which they
were penned, in the ease with which they flowed, in their lucidity, their
profundity and sweetness to those which I, myself saw pour from the pen of the
Báb when in His presence. Had Bahá’u’lláh no other claim to greatness, this
were sufficient, in the eyes of the world and its people, that He produced such
verses as have streamed this day from His pen.”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes
By’)
