4.    Station of Light
4.1  Baha’s Risala
Risala, P. 108:
The station of Light is like a lamp, and it burns itself to illuminate others. There is no I-ness in the light. “If you remain alive,” the Primal Point addresses his questioner, “you shall see the lights of this [i.e. the Point’s] Dispensation, who will forgo their I-ness to establish the Divine Unity and His injunctions and prohibitions.”

The Primal Point invokes this passage in support of his own cause and spoke of ‘Light’ who will uphold his Dispensation.

4.2  Shoghi’s Translation of Iqan
In his pre-declaration Kitab-i-Iqan of 1862 of the Baghdad period, Shoghi Effendi’s translation, P. 223, and P. 226, Mirza Husayn Ali confirms that the Primal Point refers to “these holy lights” and adds: “with what love, what devotion, what exaltation and holy rapture, they sacrificed their lives in the path of the All-Glorious! [Subhan, i.e. the Primal Point].” Yet in his Risala, section 4.1 refers, Mirza Husayn Ali copies the same passage for his own pretensions, and repeats it in his Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Shoghi Effendi’s translation, P. 140, which Shoghi Effendi mistranslated as follows: “O My God! I beseech thee by thy Most Glorious Light, and all thy Lights are verily glorious,”.

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