Shoghi Effendi feels that the unity of the Bahá’í Revelation
as one complete whole embracing the Faith of the Báb should be emphasized...
The Faith of the Báb should not be divorced from that of Bahá’u’lláh. Though
the teachings of the Bayán have been abrogated and superseded by the laws of
the Aqdas, yet due to the fact that the Báb considered Himself as the
Forerunner of Bahá’u’lláh, we would regard His Dispensation together with that
of Bahá’u’lláh as forming one entity, the former being introductory to the
advent of the latter.
The Báb states that His laws are provisional and depend upon
the acceptance of the future Manifestation. This is why in the Book of Aqdas
Bahá’u’lláh sanctions some of the laws found in the Bayán, modifies others and
sets aside many.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi cited in a
letter from the Universal House of Justice dated 1992; ‘Introduction to the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
