| Kitáb-i-Íqán | 153 |
&Muhammad, the Point of the Qur'án, revealed: "I
am all the Prophets." Likewise, He saith: "I am
the first Adam, Noah, Moses, and Jesus." Similar
statements have been made by `Alí. Sayings such
as this, which indicate the essential unity of those
Exponents of Oneness, have also emanated from
the Channels of God's immortal utterance, and the
Treasuries of the gems of divine knowledge,
and have been recorded in the scriptures. These
Countenances are the recipients of the Divine
Command, and the day-springs of His Revelation.
This Revelation is exalted above the veils of plurality
and the exigencies of number. Thus He saith:
"Our Cause is but one." (1) Inasmuch as the Cause
is one and the same, the Exponents thereof also
must needs be one and the same. Likewise, the
&Imams of the Muhammadan Faith, those lamps of
certitude, have said: "&Muhammad is our first,
&Muhammad our last, Muhammad our all."
It is clear and evident to thee that all the Prophets
are the Temples of the Cause of God, Who
have appeared clothed in divers attire. If thou wilt
observe with discriminating eyes, thou wilt behold
them all abiding in the same tabernacle, soaring
