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Study of Baha’u’llah’s Kitab-i-Iqan, The Book of Certitude
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Summary of Iqan, part 2
97) Daystars of Truth are sovereign over all things.
98) No direct connection between God and His creatures.
99) Since God is unknowable He raised the Manifestations from the realm of spirit, in the form of human temple.
100) Muhammad: I am He and He is I.
101) All the attributes of God are potentially in man.
102) He hath known God who hath known himself.
102) Revelation of attributes of God is all pervasive.
103) But for Thee I would not have created the heavens.
104) Manifestations differ only in intensity of their revelation.
107) Spiritual meaning of Sovereignty, wealth, life, death, judgment and resurrection.
108) Sufferings of Muhammad in early days; same as of Baha'u'llah.
109) His case had no remedy: "Seek out an opening into the earth or a ladder into heaven".
110) The sovereignty of Muhammad is evident today.
112) The Word of God breaks up every relation and binds the believers.
113) Meaning of the Wolf and the Lamb feeding together.
114) Meaning of life and death.
114) Circumstances of the Qu'ranic verse about physical resurrection.
115) "And there was a blast on the trumpet" in the past tense.
118) Meaning of born again and born of the Spirit.
119) Meaning of "Let the dead bury their dead"; "...dead man bought...".
121) Meaning of "...the dead, whom we have quickened..." in reference to Hamzih.
122) Manifestations of the Prince of Darkness.
123) Spiritual sovereignty is superior to the physical one.
124) Meanings are inexhaustible.
125) Outward sovereignty is not true even of God.
126) "Our Host shall conquer"; but Husayn was crushed and subjugated.
127) Meanings of ascendancy, power and authority.
128) Effect of the blood of Husayn.
129) Spiritual ascendancy is of profit to Husayn even after his martyrdom.
130) Richness of Christ in the midst of His poverty.
131) Rich in love of God.
132) Rich means independence of all else but God.
133) Christ declared His power at His trial.
134) Christ has power to forgive sins.
135) Muslims today say what Jews said to Muhammad: ours is the last prophet, God's hands are chained up.
136) "The hand of God is above their hands".
137) No mind can contemplate the cessation of revelation.
138) Their punishment is their deprivation.
138) Highest grace is attaining unto the Presence of God.
139) Attaining the Presence of God is the most emphatically asserted theme in the Qu'ran.
139) Universal vs. specific revelation.
140) Universal revelation and knowledge of God are not specific to the Day of Resurrection.
141) Specific revelation is of two types: in the essence, in the world of creation.
143) Presence of God through revelation in the Manifestation is only possible in the Day of Resurrection.
144) Meaning of Resurrection.
145) Knowledge is in recognition of the Manifestation.
146) "The abased amongst you, He shall exalt, and they that are exalted He shall abase".
146) The meaning of the poor shall inherit the earth.
148) Meaning of the return of the enemies of the Faith.
149) Adam was a prophet.
150) Muhammad is the return of Moses and Jesus, meaning of the Qu'ranic verse.
152) Twofold station of Manifestations.
153) Unity of Manifestations.
154) Meaning of rebirth.
155) Faith brings detachment.
156) Transformation of believers.
157) From copper to gold.
158) Return of followers.
159) Analogy of rose.
161) Analogy of sun.
162) "Seal of the Prophets" is a sore test.
164) Veils of glory are the divines.
166) Veils of glory are terms such as Seal of the Prophets.
166) Imam `Ali: "A thousand Fatimihs I have espoused".
167) Manifestations have no beginning and no end.
167) Imam Husayn explains "end" and "return".
169) Attainment unto the Divine Presence is the most explicit term in the Qu'ran.
170) God doeth whatsoever He willeth. How can man be so bold as to question Him?
173) God reckoned the people by their countenance.
174) Qu'ran: "And God calleth to the Abode of Peace"; Baghdad.
176) Each Manifestation has a specific mission.
178) Manifestations can declare I am God or I am the Messenger of God.
180) Self-effacement of the Manifestations.
182) Man should not interpret the Holy Words according to his own understanding.
183) Muhammad's answer about the spirit aroused clamour.
184) Knowledge is a point and a light; the meaning of knowledge.
185) Book by Haji Mirza Karim Khan.
186) "But for Thee I would not have created the spheres".
187) The mystery of Miraj and how to understand it.
188) Idle pursuits are forbidden; veil of knowledge and glory.
189) Baha'u'llah's challenge about alchemy.
190) Qu'ran refers to Karim by name!
191) Samiri of this dispensation.
192) Conditions for a true seeker: free from hate or love, humble, patient, silent, no backbiting, content, avoid boastful and evil doers, pray, charity, kind to animals and people, sacrificial, wish for others as himself, never despise others.
194) None knows his end.
196) Intensity of search will lead one to God.
199) Once in about a thousand years.
200) In every dispensation the book is the standard.
201) Muhammad's twin weighty testimonies : the book of God and my family
202) The disconnected letters of Quran ; outwardly they signify Muhammad.
203) Traditions are not reliable.
205) The mightiest proof of Muhammad was the text of Quran.
207) People asked of miracles, Muhammad offered only the verses of God as proof.
209) The proof of the sun is the light thereof.
210) The book is a proof unto all people; even "common" people.
211) "common" people are infinitely superior above their religious leaders who have turned away from God.
211) Understanding of words of God is not dependent upon human learning.
212) Enemies charge that: "He has compiled these words from the words of old".
213) People in every age have said that there should be no new independent prophets.
214) Denials instigated by the divines.
215) Muhammad was accused as a calumniator and a lunatic by the divines.
216) Each manifestation had one book, but the revelation of the Bab is unnumbered; many lost.
218) Sufferings of the faithful in early days of Islam; similar to today; accused of misbelief.
220) Proof of the Bab: "bring forth a myriad verses, discourses, epistles, and prayers, non of which have been acquired through learning"
220) Certain prophets are "endowed with constancy" because they revealed a book.
221) Quran : "All have a quarter of the heaven to which they turn"
222) Proof of the Bab: transformed many people ; nearly 400 self sacrificing and learned followers
223) Mullah-Husayn; "But for him God would not have been established upon the seat of His mercy nor ascended the throne of eternal glory."
224) Proof of the Bab: self sacrifice of followers.
225) Sufferings of Imam Husayn lasted half a day; that of Bab's followers many years.
225) Divines pursue wealth in day and carnal desires at night.
227) Proof from the Qur'an: "Wish for death if ye are men of truth."
228) The divines who were leaders did not accept the faith of the Bab.
229) The Bab wrote to the divines of every city.
229) The Bab specified that the followers of Bayan should not object if non of the divines accept the manifestation of Mustaghath
230) Proof: Constancy of the Bab; His courage
231) The Bab longed for martyrdom.
232) Divines: ...carcasses from whose bellies ascendeth the cry of the swallowed substance of the faithful.
234) Proof: the Bab's ascendancy , transcendent power and supremacy as shown in steadfastness and knowledge of His followers.
236) Proof: opposition to Babis; prophesied.
239) People expect the promised one to promote the laws of their own religion.
240) A new law and a new revelation prophesied in traditions.
243) Knowledge is 27 letters; Q'aim brings 25.
245) Character of Q'aim, His sufferings and that of His followers prophesied in Ka'fi.
246) If Qa'im not author of a new law then why the opposition.
246) Martyrdoms in Persia prophesied.
248) Foresee future oppositions.
249) Reference to envy and malice of Mirza Yahya.
250) Harm of false friends worse than that of enemies.
251) Reasons for retirement to Sulaymaniyyih.
252) Wish for martyrdom in the path of the Bab.
253) The year 60.
254) Sufferings and new laws of the Bab prophesied.
255) Twofold language of the word of God: plain and concealed.
256) God will forget those who forget Him.