Siyyid Kázim also spoke of triliterals and quadriliterals. A
triliteral is a word comprising three letters, such as “‘Alí”, and a
quadriliteral is a word comprising four, such as “Muhammad”.[1] When these two
are combined it makes “‘Alí-Muhammad”, which is the blessed name of the Báb. In
numerous passages of the same book [by Siyyid Kazim] he explicitly refers to
the Báb and extols Him with boundless laudations and attributes, saying that
the mysteries of all that has been and all that shall be are found in Him. He
also says that all the inner truths and meanings of the Sacred Scriptures are
enfolded and allusively expressed in the verse “Bismi’lláhi’r-Rahmáni’r-Rahím”
(In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate), that all the meanings of
“Bismi’lláh” (in the name of God) are encapsulated and comprehended in the
letter Bá’, which is the sum total of all truths and mysteries, and that the
Bá’ refers to Bahá’u’lláh. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, new resources prepared
by the Baha’i World Center, 2019; Online Baha’i Reference Library)
[1] In Arabic, only consonants and long vowels are written,
and the word “Muhammad” is therefore spelled with the letters M, H, M, and D.
