d from the right side of the valley in the blessed spot of the bush: o Moses, surely I am Allah, the Lord of the worlds. It is evidently clear that when Moses reached the blessed spot covered with bushes and trees, a voice came to him from the right side of the valley, and not from any tree or fire. The Law of Bahaullah has remained a deadletter ever since the time of its birth. Frustration and failure seemed to have been born with it. In the first instance, Bahaullah, the founder of the new law spent all his life behind the prison bars and could not set an example of acting up to his law for the people to follow. He, however, practised taqiyya, and directed his followers also to act in contravention of their principles when overtaken by fear of the enemy. The abrogater of the Great Law of Islam fell into disuse and became inoperative since the very first day 0 f its birth. Before proceeding further with the post-mortem examination of this still-born law, we should like to put it to the Bahais which law they have been conforming their actions to during the whole century that has passed over their movement, the Law of Islam having been abrogated
41 and the new law having been kept a sealed: secret which never saw the light of the day. Says the Most High God in the Holy Quran (2: 106): "Whatever message We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than it or one like it". The Law of the Quran abrogated and abolished all previous. scriptures. And it is a matter of fact that the Holy Quran gave a law which is decidedly superior to and more comprehensive than the previous laws in most respects. If, therefore, the Kitab al-Aqdas has come to repeal and replace the Holy Quran, it should essentially give us a law which should be better than and superior to the law of the Quran, Let us, to begin with, consider the doctrine of Divine Unity which is the fundamental principle, the foundation of all revealed religions. (1) The Holy Quran, it has been admitted on all hands, has taught the Unity and Oneness of God in the most perfect form: "Say, He, Allah is One, Allah is He on Whom all depend. He begets not, nor is He begotten; and none is like Him." The verse "none is like Him" negatives in clear, concise terms the doctrine of Incarnation according to which a mere, mortal man, as Bahaullah was, is likened to the Most High God. As against this most,
42 -exoellent teaching, Bahaullah said that he was himself the Divine Being in human flesh who had come into the world with immense and irresistable power to judge and rule: ":I 0l1L.!
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inhabitants of the earth and the hea vens, verily the revealer of signs and guidance has \ come with such a powerful predominance that all the armies of the world cannot stand against it, nor will the glory and grandeur of those who are indifferent to the advent of amr-i-azeem (i.e., Bahaullah) will now be of any avail to them."
But it was a mere empty brag. The God of the Bahais pasaed all his life miserably in a prison-cell. The Bahai's formula of faith, Kalima, which sums up the teaching of the Kitab al-Aqdas in one short sentence is ~ ":II .I..l1 i.e., there is no god but Bahaullah, ":I as against the Islamic Kalima -U'll ":II .I..l1 ":I i.e., there is no god but Allah. Dr. Khair Ullah, the well-known Bahai missionary, preached in America that Bahaullah was God the
Father who appeared on the stage of the world in human form, and on his death he consigned his Kingdom into the hands of Abbas Effendi who was God the Son. U this book, the Kitab al-Aqdas, is said to be the abrogater of the Holy Quran, it means that the Most High God Himself wished to obliterate His Oneness and Unity established in the world, by polytheism and manworship. (2) In the Quranic Law of Marriage it is stated that: "Forbidden to you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your paternal aunts, and your maternal aunts, and brother's daughters and sister's daughters, and your mothers that have suckled you, and your foster-sisters, and mothers of your wives, and y