Nowhere but in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, Bahá’u’lláh’s masterly
exposition of the one unifying truth underlying all the Revelations of the
past, can we obtain a clearer apprehension of the potency of those forces
inherent in that Preliminary Manifestation with which His own Faith stands
indissolubly associated. Expatiating upon the unfathomed import of the signs
and tokens that have accompanied the Revelation proclaimed by the Báb, the
promised Qá’im, He recalls 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,” adds Bahá’u’lláh, “how great and lofty is His station!”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’)
