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She was also an eloquent speaker and experienced in the intricate measures of Persian poetry. Who was this Personage? It appears that Ḳurratu'l 'Ayn thought Him slow in bringing forward these claims. Is there any one who can be thought of but Baha-'ullah? The Bahaite tradition confidently answers in the negative.
This is correct if we lay stress on the qualifying word 'perfect, especially if we hold that St. Paul has the credit of having expanded and enriched the somewhat meagre representation of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels. It must be conceded that Baha-'ullah had a greater opportunity than Christ of lifting both His own and other peoples to a higher plane, but the ideal of both was the same.
Unfortunately religious dissensions began to arise. In the Bābī colony at Baghdad there were some who were not thoroughly devoted to Baha-'ullah. The Teacher was rather too radical, too progressive for them.
Like his half-brother, he attended the important Council of Badasht, where, with God's Heroine Ḳurratu'l 'Ayn he defended the cause of progress and averted a fiasco. It was, in fact, too trying a time for any new teacher, and we can now see the wisdom of Baha-'ullah in waiting for the call of events. The Bābī community was too much divided to yield a new Head a frank and loyal obedience.
But who would find fault with the Great Compassion for arranging it so? And who would deny that there are more important events at this period which claim our interest? At any rate Baha-'ullah believed that his brother was an assassin and a liar.
They were aided, however, by the devotion of some of their fellow-believers, who rendered many voluntary services; indeed, their affectionate zeal needed to be restrained, as St. Paul doubtless found in like circumstances. Baha-'ullah himself was intensely, divinely happy, and the little band of refugees thirsty for truth rejoiced in their untrammelled intercourse with their Teacher.
How, for instance, did he get possession of the relics? And, is there any independent evidence for the intermingling of the parts of the two corpses? How did he procure a crystal coffin to receive the relics? How comes it that there were Bahaites at the time of the Bāb's death, and how was Ṣubḥ-i-Ezel able to conceal the crystal coffin, etc., from his brother Baha-'ullah?
Teachers and investigators would, of course, always be wanted. The practice of Asceticism, living the hermit life or in secluded communities, is prohibited. Monogamy is enjoined. Baha-'ullah, no doubt, had two wives. This was 'for the hardness of men's hearts'; he desired the spread of monogamy.
The claim of infallibility has done harm enough already in the Roman Church! Baha-'ullah may no doubt be invoked on the other side. This is the absolutely correct statement of his son Abdul Baha. The question of Sinlessness I postpone. I do not myself think that the interval of nineteen years for the Great Manifestation was meant by the Bāb to be taken literally.
In both cases a doubt has arisen in the minds of some spectators whether the reformers have anything to offer which has not already been given by the Hebrew prophets and by the finest efflorescence of these Jesus Christ. I am bound to express the opinion that they have. I do not say that Baha-'ullah is unique or that His revelations are final.
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