Judge fairly: Were the prophecies recorded in the Gospel to
be literally fulfilled; were Jesus, Son of Mary, accompanied by angels, to
descend from the visible heaven upon the clouds; who would dare to disbelieve,
who would dare to reject the truth, and wax disdainful? Nay, such consternation
would immediately seize all the dwellers of the earth that no soul would feel
able to utter a word, much less to reject or accept the truth. It was owing to
their misunderstanding of these truths that many a Christian divine hath
objected to Muhammad, and voiced his protest in such words: “If Thou art in
truth the promised Prophet, why then art Thou not accompanied by those angels
our sacred Books foretold, and which must needs descend with the promised
Beauty to assist Him in His Revelation and act as warners unto His people?”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
