A
Study of Baha’u’llah’s Kitab-i-Iqan, The Book of Certitude
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Summary of the Content given
by Shoghi Effendi
Within
a compass of two hundred pages it
- proclaims
unequivocally the existence and oneness of a personal God, unknowable,
inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient,
omnipresent and almighty;
- asserts
the relativity of religious truth and the continuity of Divine Revelation;
- affirms
the unity of the Prophets, the universality of their Message, the identity
of their fundamental teachings, the sanctity of their scriptures, and the
twofold character of their stations;
- denounces
the blindness and perversity of the divines and doctors of every age;
- cites
and elucidates the allegorical passages of the New Testament, the abstruse
verses of the Qur'án, and the cryptic Muhammadan traditions which
have bred those age-long misunderstandings, doubts and animosities that
have sundered and kept apart the followers of the world's leading
religious systems;
- enumerates
the essential prerequisites for the attainment by every true seeker of the
object of his quest;
- demonstrates
the validity, the sublimity and significance of the Báb's Revelation;
- acclaims
the heroism and detachment of His disciples;
- foreshadows,
and prophesies the world-wide triumph of the Revelation promised to the
people of the Bayán;
- upholds
the purity and innocence of the Virgin Mary;
- glorifies
the Imáms of the Faith of Muhammad;
- celebrates
the martyrdom, and lauds the spiritual sovereignty, of the Imám Husayn;
- unfolds
the meaning of such symbolic terms as "Return,"
"Resurrection," "Seal of the Prophets" and "Day
of Judgment";
- adumbrates
and distinguishes between the three stages of Divine Revelation; and
- expatiates,
in glowing terms, upon the glories and wonders of the "City of
God," renewed, at fixed intervals, by the dispensation of Providence,
for the guidance, the benefit and salvation of all mankind.
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