 admitted to the presence of the Sultan of Turkey. It is an historical untruth. The Holy Quran cannot even be recited in six hours, much less to write a hook bigger and larger than it in that time. And where is that miraculous book? It exists not among the known writings of Bahaullah. The poet has very rightly said ;"0, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." The Bah ai Creed, as shown in the foregoing pages, was a religio-political movement which provoked, on the one side, the wrath of the
19 Muslim Ulama who pronounced the sentence of heresy against them, and, on the other side, it aroused the Government of Persia to take necessary administrative action and incarcerate the Bab in the fort at Maku. It may be remarked in passing that the Bab had inculcated on his followers riotous and turbulent means for the achievement of their object. Wrote Abdul Baha in his Makoteeb, vol 2, page '266 :
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i. e. At the time of the appearance of the Most High Bab, the teaching of the Bayan, briefly, was that heads of the people should struck off, books and scriputres should be consigned to the flames, houses and buildings should be razed to the ground, and, with the exception of those who believe in the Bab, all others should Le ruthlessly massacred. The followers of the Bab held a Conference at Badasht in Khurasan, in 1264 A. H., under the guidance of Mirza Husain Ali, j\lulla Muhammad Ali, Mulla Husain of Bushraweh and Qurrat-ul-A'fu, to discuss and deliberate upon the further course of their action. It
20 was resolved that they should assemble at Maku, and liberate the Bab by force of arms; and in order to wreak their vengeance on the Muslim Ulama for their sentence of heresy, it should be declared that the Law of Islam had been abrogated. It was purely a retaliatory measure, this abrogation of the Law of Islam, and Bahaullah confessed it in clear and unambiguous terms:
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e. If the followers of Islam had not refused to acknowledge and accept the Bab and the Baha, the Law of Islam would not have been set aside and abrogated. Otherwise, Bahaullah believed in his heart of hearts that the Law of Islam was perfect, eternal and comprehensive to meet the requirements of all ages to come. Towards the closing years of his life, he wrote in one of his letters:
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21 i. e. "In this last age, if the Muslims had lived up to the Luminous Law of the Holy Prophet, the Khatam-an-nabiyyin (sacrificed be all of us for him), and held fast to the string of His Law, the firm foundation of the fort of religion would not have been shaken, and populous cities would not have been ruined, and towns and villages would have been attractive and pleasing. But the Muslim nation, on account of its indifference, apathy and the dark deeds of the wicked people, looks weak and disrupted." The Bahai movement, it is now abundantly clear, had not its origin in the Divine source and inspiration. It was induced and impelled by vengeful ire against the Muslims. And the Holy Prophet had foretold it centuries before. The movement for the abrogation of the Islamic Law took its birth, as stated in the foregoing lines, at Badasht which is situated in the country of Khurasan. The Prophet had said: ~ 0L..1~ 4J J~ -.Jr-J4
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i. e. The Dajjal (Anti-Christ who will fill the world with wickedness) will arise at a place
called Khurasan in the Eastern Countries; and those people whose faces will be like hammer- beaten shields will follow him. That this Dajjal will claim to have brought a new law forms an essential part of the Bahai belief. Abul Fazal, an accredited scholar and preacher of the Bahai creed, states:
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(11"''' ~ i. e. ·'It should not be unknown to the people of wisdom and understand