The Cause pg. 67-70
“By the aid of God and His divine grace and mercy, We revealed, as a copious rain, Our verses, and sent them to various parts of the world. We exhorted all men, and particularly this people, through Our wise counsels and loving admonitions, and forbade them to engage in sedition, quarrels, disputes or conflict. As a result of this, and by the grace of God, waywardness and folly were changed into piety and understanding, and weapons of war converted into instruments of peace.”
-Baha’u’llah
After His return to Baghdad, the words of Bahá’u’lláh were revealed in great profusion. They were uttered in the presence of some of the believers but for the most part were not recorded. Nabil-i-A’zam, the immortal chronicler of this Dispensation, has written that Bahá’u’lláh revealed the equivalent of the Qur’án within the space of a single day and night, and that He continued in this way for two whole years after His return from Kurdistan.
In addition, many Tablets were revealed which were either written in Bahá’u’lláh’s own hand, or dictated to His amanuensis, Mirza Aqa Jan. But a great portion of the papers on which they were inscribed, comprising hundreds of thousands of verses, were wiped clean with water and then thrown into the river at the direction of Bahá’u’lláh, Who asserted: ‘None is to be found at this time worthy to hear these melodies’.
The Tablets which were preserved, however, exerted such an influence upon the members of the Bábí community that within a short period of time they were revivified, their vision was broadened, their characters transformed and their minds enlightened. Through the revelation of these Tablets and by His personal contact with them, these companions of Bahá’u’lláh became a new creation and were endowed with great spiritual powers.
-Adib Taherzadeh
