“The verses which have rained from this Cloud of Divine
mercy,” [the Báb’s] is Bahá’u’lláh’s testimony in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, “have been
so abundant that none hath yet been able to estimate their number. A score of
volumes are now available. How many still remain beyond our reach! How many
have been plundered and have fallen into the hands of the enemy, the fate of
which none knoweth!” No less arresting is the variety of themes presented by
these voluminous writings, such as prayers, homilies, orations, Tablets of
visitation, scientific treatises, doctrinal dissertations, exhortations,
commentaries on the Qur’án and on various traditions, epistles to the highest
religious and ecclesiastical dignitaries of the realm, and laws and ordinances
for the consolidation of His Faith and the direction of its activities.
- Shoghi
Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
