Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - The Untranscribed Verses

16. The Untranscribed Verses
P. 171. Shoghi Effendi quotes Baha as saying: “Such are the outpouring … from the clouds of Divine Bounty that within the space of an hour the equivalent of a thousand verses hath been revealed”.
“So great is the grace vouchsafed in this day that in a single day and night, were an amanuensis capable of accomplishing it to be found, the equivalent of the Persian Bayan would be sent down from the heaven of divine holiness”. I swear by god! In those days the equivalent of all that hath been sent from aforetime unto the prophets hath been revealed.” “that which hath already been revealed in this land (Edirne) secretaries are incapable of transcribing. It has, therefore, remained for the most part untranscribed”.

In Baha’s pre-declaration days “the unrecorded verses that streamed from his lips averaged, in a single day and night, the equivalent of the Quran … Hundreds of thousands of verses, mostly written by his own hand, were obliterated and cast into the river [in Baghdad], as none is to be found at this time worthy to hear these melodies.” Ibid, P. 138.

In his post declaration days. In Edirne Baha’s “verses remained for the most part untranscribed.” Shoghi Effendi does not tell us why these verses, presumably intended for the instruction of mankind, should have been sent down at all, if they were to be cast into the river or were to remain untranscribed.

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