15.    Perquisites of Him Whom God Will Make Manifest

15.2.   Definitions

15.2.2  Interval Between Two Manifestations
“The Appearing-Place of the Volition (Mashiya) is manifest and in the ascendant in each Resurrection. On the fall of the night, called Barzakh, the divine Volition is in concealment.” II, 9.
There must, therefore, be an interval between two manifestations.

Interval of 1511-2001 years
The Primal Point has fixed an interval of time of a minimum of 1511 years and of a maximum of 2001 years to separate his own dispensation from the next manifestation, Him whom god will make manifest, the promised One of the Bayan. The relevant provision of the Persian Bayan are quoted hereunder:

“I bequeath to all the people of Bayan that if at the moment of the Manifestation of Him whom god will make manifest you attain the Most Great Paradise and Most Mighty Presence the blessedness is of you! Then the blessedness is of you! And then the blessedness is of you! Otherwise, if you heard that the manifestation has appeared with the earlier verses [i.e. like those of the Bayan] of the number of the Name of god Al-Qiyath [=1511years after the Point’s declaration], then all shall enter [to his faith]. If he has not been made manifest and [his coming] is [as late as] to reach the number of the name of god Al-Mustaghath [Mustaghath = 2001 years after the Point’s declaration], and you have heard that the Point has appeared, and you are not all convinced, take pity upon yourselves and seek you, all refuge in the shadow of that Manifest Point, into which you have all entered. If you hear that a master of breath [Sahib Nafas; Nafas means a miraculous power exercised by saints, who blow upon the sick in order to cause them in whose words are effective] with verses has appeared and possessors of knowledge of the times have acknowledged him … hesitate not and enter in you all to the shadow of his owning, for he is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden. If you have not heard [that such a person has appeared] then entreat and crave that the favor of god is not withheld from you till Mustaghath. If you have heard that He is my Beloved and your Beloved, my King and your King, has appeared ere Mustaghath, then tarry not so much as a breathing-while, and enter in you all together to the shadow of god and say not why and wherefore this is My Most Great Command unto you to deliver from the fire of your remoteness .. of anyone tarries so much as a breathing-while after two thousand and one years without doubt he is not of the religion of the Bayan, and is in the Fire, save where the divine Manifestation may not have appeared, when you are all enjoined upon to entreat and crave,” II, 16.

“How many the Fires … which god converts into Light through Him whom god will make manifest; and how numerous the Lights which are turned into Fire through him! If he appears in the number of Ghiyath [= 1511 years after the Point’s declaration] and all enter in [to his faith], but one will remain in the Fire. If [his coming] is [as late as] to reach [the number of] Mustaghath [= 2001 years after the Point’s declaration] and all shall enter in, Not one will remain in the Fire, but all will be converted into Light. Such this favor from Him whom god, will make manifest, for this is the Most Great Favor and the Most Mighty Salvation; that you tarry not as other people, even like the Letters of the Gospel [i.e. the Christians], who still await ‘Him who shall come, by Name Ahmad [i.e. Muhammad]’, while two other Books [i.e. the Quran and the Bayan] have been sent down by god. If he appears not ere [the lapse of a number of years equivalent to) these two names [i.e. Ghiyath and Mustaghath], [still] he will certainly appear, and there is no escape for him [from this] though I see his appearance even as this Sun in the midmost heaven and the disappearance of all even as that of the stars of the Night by day, [I see this] from the point of view of the faith and truth, and not from the point of view of mortal frame and visible means”. II, 17.

“and so likewise if all the believers in the Bayan believe in Him whom God will make manifest, none will remain in the Fire, and none will be adjuged an unbeliever. But watch for the manifestation, that there may not be an interval of so much as a moment between the Manifestation and the belief of all who believe in the Bayan. For even so long as until [the number of years by] Mustaghath it is not meet that they should remain [in expectation], if cautions should lay hold of their skirts, for such caution has been and is in Fire. But it is hoped of the Grace of God, the Gracious and Compassionate, that at the moment of the Manifestation, He will by His Light commands [contained] in his Tablets awaken all his servants from sleep and will not suffer them to remain in the Fire [of expectation] until the authoritative command [decreed] in the Bayan, which is till [the fulfilment of the number of] Ghiyath. For none knows the [time of the] manifestation except God; whenever it takes place all must acknowledge the Point of Truth and render thanks unto God; though it is hoped of His Grace that it will not reach [the number of] Mustaghath, and that the word of God will be raised up ere this. Surely the Proof is His Words (ayat), and [the testimony] His existence, His own Self, since all else is known through Him, while he cannot be known through anyone except Himself. Glorious is God above that which they ascribe to Him”, III, 15.

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