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"Say, 0 thou king of Berlin, give ear to the voice speaking through this body that there is no God except me, the eternal and the everlasting and without an associate." (,j3 L. I_,......~I l~ )_"~I "'l.... J ~~rl S j) _,.L. 4 JJ.Q.;JI ~}~\ UI "-.II ':J oJl &o~:J1 ~ J-'" &ol9_rJ1 A.! _~)JI "Ruler of America and leaders of the people! listen to the message which the dove is singing, perched on the tree of immortality that there is no God except me, the eternal. the forgiver and the compassionate." Bahaullah, we said, asserted his claim Divinity in quite unmistakable terms:
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The one who is speaking from this great prison is the creator of all things, who condescended to suffer all the troubles in order to infuse life into the world; who created the prophets and apostles by word of his mouth:
37 and directed the Bahais to turn their faces in worship towards him during the life-time and towards his tomb after his death: In his own words:
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The Bahais, it is a matter of fact prostrate before the tomb of Bahaullah at Akka, and kiss it in worshipful reverence, and perform the sacred circuit around it :
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And the places of their pilgrimage are the two houses at Shiraz and Baghdad in which lived Ali Muhammad Bab and Bahaullah respectively during their life- time :
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During his sojourn in America, we read in the well-known Bahai Book, Bada al-Asaar, vol. 1, page 367, Abdul Baha assured the Bahais of that country when he would return to Akka, he would rub his forehead on the door of Bahaullah's tomb, and tear his hair, and .pray for all of them:
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It was to safeguard against this sort of polytheistic worship, the worship of a dead man and his tomb, that the Holy Prophet of Islam, the greatest torch-bearer of the Unity and Oneness of Godhead, had prayed at the time of his death: ~A:! t;J s is.J':i J~ "j ~ 1 "Most High God! I beseech Thee that my tomb may not become an idol which people may worship and adore."
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Be is also reported to have said: "Curse of God be on the Jews and the Christians, for they have made the tom bs of their prophets as the objects of their worship and adoration." The teaching of Bahaullah, it can thus be easily seen, intend to pull the people back into the pre-Islamic idolatry and man- worship. In support of his quixotic claim, Bahaullah has advanced an argument from the Holy Quran, saying:
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the fire and tree, in the same way, He is today speaking through the mouth of Bahaullah. This theory of Incarnation, ftS stated in the foregoing pages, had been completely exploded and overthrown by the Holy Quran ; and it will be out of the limit of impudence and audacity to interpret its verses in support of this polytheistic principle. It is nowhere stated in the Holy Quran that the Most High God ever spoke to Moses through the agency of any material fire or tree: nor can He speak through the mouth of Bahaullah, entering into and assuming his flesh. Moses received Divine Revelation in the same manner as did the other prophets. He was journeying with his family when the call came to him; ana in order to be made the recipient of Divine Revelation, he was, under a Providential plan, separated from his companions. He saw with the spiritual eye like fire in the distance. We read in the Holy Quran (28 : 29, 30) : "Moses was travelling with his family when he perceived a fire on the side of mountain. He said to his family: Wait, I see a fire; may be I will bring to you from it some news or a brand of fire, so that you may warm yourselves. And when he came to it, he
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