…in this Dispensation of the Blessed Beauty (Baha’u’llah)
among its distinctions is that He did not leave people in perplexity. He
entered into a Covenant and Testament with the people. He appointed a Center of
the Covenant. He wrote with His own pen and revealed it in the Kitab-i-Aqdas,
the Book of Laws, and Kitab-i-Ahd, the Book of the Covenant, appointing him
(‘Abdu’l-Baha) the Expounder of the Book. You must ask him (‘Abdu’l-Baha)
regarding the meanings of the texts of the verses. Whatsoever he says is
correct.
Outside of this, in numerous Tablets He (Baha’u’llah) has
explicitly recorded it, with clear, sufficient, valid and forceful statements.
In the Tablet of the Branch He explicitly states: “Whatsoever the Branch says
is right, or correct; and every person must obey the Branch with his life, with
his heart, with his tongue. Without his will, not a word shall anyone utter.”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, 1912, USA; (Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 15,
December 12, 1914)
