Siyyid Kázim [a forerunner of the Báb] explicitly specified,
in the preamble of his book “Sharh-iQasídih”, the name of Bahá’u’lláh: “Praise
be to God Who hath adorned the preamble of the book of His Essence with the
mystery of distinction, the ornament of that Point wherefrom the Há is
manifested, with neither assimilation nor separation, through the Alif.” To
fully explain this expression to you would take a long time, since you are
unfamiliar with such words and expressions, and were I to do so it would fill
an entire book. But since time is short I will briefly provide a word-for-word
translation [Arabic to Persian] so that you will understand the general
meaning. He says: Praise be to God who
has adorned the book of existence with the mystery of distinction through
degrees, for it is through such differences that the world of existence is
adorned. If all things were of one kind and there were no distinctions,
existence would be imperfect. The realm of God and the realm of creation, the realm
above and the realm below, the realm of truth and the realm of illusion: All
these distinctions are among the inherent requirements of existence. He then
says that the book of existence is adorned with that Point wherefrom the letter
Há’ appears and the letter Alif is manifested. And in the same book he explains
in numerous passages that the Point is the letter Bá’. And when the letters
Bá’, Há’, and Alif are brought together it makes “Bahá.”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a
Talk, ‘Twelve table talks given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in ‘Akká’; Online Baha’i
Reference Library, Baha’i World Centre)
