Baha'u'llah confirms Mulla Husayn to be Muhammad, arguing against those who
try to say otherwise:
Consider thou the Revelation of the Point of the Bayan - exalted is His
glory. He pronounced the First One(1) to believe in Him to be Muhammad, the
Messenger of God. Doth it beseem a man to dispute with Him by saying that
this man is from Persia, the Other from Arabia, or this one was called
Husayn while the Other bore the name of Muhammad? Nay, I swear by God's
holy Being, the Exalted, the Most Great. Surely no man of intelligence and
insight would ever pay attention unto limitations or names, but rather unto
that with which Muhammad was invested, which was none other than the Cause
of God. Such a man of insight would likewise consider Husayn and the
position he occupied in the Cause of God, the Omnipotent, the Exalted, the
Knowing, the Wise. And since the First One to believe in God in the
Dispensation of the Bayan was invested with command similar to that with
which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was invested, therefore the Bab
pronounced him to be the latter, namely His return and resurrection. This
station is sanctified from every limitation or name, and naught can be seen
therein but God, the One, the Peerless, the All-Knowing.
(Baha'u'llah: Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Pages: 184-185)
This seems a bit theologically problematic, because wouldn't this mean that
according to the Baha'i Writings Mulla Husayn is greater than 'Abdu'l-Baha?
'Abdu'l-Baha shrunk from comparing Himself to Prophets. What passage in the
Writings could one cite to prove it was the opposite way around? Certainly
I would agree that if people like Mulla Husayn and the Imam Husayn can be
compared to Prophets then 'Abdu'l-Baha can, but I can see why the Writings
do not do so for Him.
Regards,
David
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