Wishing to stress
the sublimity of the Báb’s exalted station as compared with that of the
Prophets of the past, Bahá’u’lláh in that same epistle asserts: “No
understanding can grasp the nature of His Revelation, nor can any knowledge
comprehend the full measure of His Faith.” He then quotes, in confirmation of
His argument, these prophetic words: “Knowledge is twenty and seven letters.
All that the Prophets have revealed are two letters thereof. No man thus far
hath known more than these two letters. But when the Qá’im shall arise, He will
cause the remaining twenty and five letters to be made manifest.” “Behold,” He
adds, “how great and lofty is His station! His rank excelleth that of all the
Prophets and His Revelation transcendeth the comprehension and understanding of
all their chosen ones.” “Of His Revelation,” He further adds, “the Prophets of
God, His saints and chosen ones, have either not been informed, or, in
pursuance of God’s inscrutable decree, they have not disclosed.”
- Shoghi
Effendi (From a letter dated February 8, 1934, ‘The Dispensation of
Baha’u’llah’)
