unto His good-pleasure. II, 6.

"The One true God may be compared unto the sun and ..."

The One true God may be compared unto the sun and the believer unto a
mirror. No sooner is the mirror placed before the sun than it reflects its
light. The unbeliever may be likened unto a stone. No matter how long it
is exposed to the sunshine, it cannot reflect the sun. Thus the former
layeth down his life as a sacrifice, while the latter doeth against God
what he committeth. Indeed, if God willeth, He is potent to turn the stone
into a mirror, but the person himself remaineth reconciled to his state.
Had he wished to become a crystal, God would have made him to assume
crystal form. For on that Day whatever cause prompteth the believer to
believe in Him, the same will also be available to the unbeliever. But
when the latter suffereth himself to be wrapt in veils, the same cause
shutteth him out as by a veil. Thus, as is clearly evident today, those
who have set their faces toward God, the True One, have believed in Him
because of the Bayan, while such as are veiled have been deprived because
of it. VI, 4.

"I swear by the most holy Essence of God--exalted and ..."

I Swear by the most holy Essence of God--exalted and glorified be He--that
in the Day of the appearance of Him Whom God shall make manifest a
thousand perusals of the Bayan cannot equal the perusal of a single verse
to be revealed by Him Whom God shall make manifest.

Ponder a while and observe that everything in Islam hath its ultimate and
eventual beginning in the Book of God. Consider likewise the Day of the
Revelation of Him Whom God shall make manifest, He in Whose grasp lieth
the source of proofs, and let not erroneous considerations shut thee out
from Him, for He is immeasurably exalted above them, inasmuch as every
proof proceedeth from the Book of God which is itself the supreme
testimony, as all men are powerless to produce its like. Should myriads of
men of learning, versed in logic, in the science of grammar, in law, in
jurisprudence and the like, turn away from the Book of God, they would
still be pronounced unbelievers. Thus the fruit is within the supreme
testimony itself, not in the things derived therefrom. And know thou of a
certainty that every letter revealed in the Bayan is solely intended to
evoke submission unto Him Whom God shall make manifest, for it is He Who
hath revealed the Bayan prior to His Own manifestation. V, 8.