Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh
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89,P138

It would be more correct, and in consonance with the established principles of Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb, if instead of maintaining this fictitious identity with reference to `Abdu'l-Bahá, we regard the Forerunner and the Founder of our Faith as identical in reality-- a truth which the text of the Súratu'l-Haykal unmistakably affirms. "Had the Primal Point (the Báb) been someone else beside Me as ye claim," is Bahá'u'lláh's explicit statement, "and had attained My presence, verily He would have never allowed Himself to be separated from Me, but rather We would have had mutual delights with each other in My Days." "He Who now voiceth the Word of God," Bahá'u'lláh again affirms, "is none other except the Primal Point Who hath once again been made manifest." "He is," He thus refers to Himself in a Tablet addressed to one of the Letters of the Living, "the same as the One Who appeared in the year sixty (1260 A.H.). This verily is one of His mighty signs." "Who," He pleads in the Súriy-i-Damm, "will arise to secure the triumph of the Primal Beauty (the Báb) revealed in the countenance of His succeeding Manifestation?" Referring to the Revelation proclaimed by the Báb He conversely characterizes it as "My own previous Manifestation."
Soroush Shakib
(© NSA of the Baha'is of USA)

Title and Main Idea:

A testimony in the Writings of Baha'u'llah to the Station of the Bab.

Question (© Morten Bergsmo):

What is the relationship of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh as enunciated in the Súratu'l-Haykal?

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Fundamental Verities:

The Unity of The Manifestation of God even when they appear at the same time on this planet