7.    The Order of Bahaullah
7.2  Shoghi’s God Passes By
In God Passes By, PP. 25-26, Shoghi Effendi says: “It should be noted, in this connection, that in the third Wáhid of this Book [i.e. the Bayan] these verses a passage which, alike in its explicit reference to the name of the promised One, and in its anticipation of the Order which, in a later age, was to be identified with his Revelation, deserves to rank as one of the most significant statements recorded in any of the Point’s writings. ‘Well is it with him,’ is his prophetic announcement, ‘who fixeth his gaze upon the Order of Bahaullah and rendereth thanks unto his Lord. For he will assuredly be made manifest, god hath indeed irrevocably ordained it in the Bayan.’ It is with that self-same Order that the Founder of the promised Revelation, twenty years later incorporating that same term in his Kitab-i-Aqdas, identified the system envisaged in that Book, affirming that ‘this most great order’ had deranged the world’s equilibrium, and revolutionized mankind’s ordered life. It is the features of that self-same Order which, at later stage in the evolution of the faith, the Centre of Bahaullah’s Covenant and the appointed Interpreter of his teachings [i.e. Sir Abbas Effendi] delineated through the provision of his Will and Testament.�? In ibid, P. 223, Shoghi Effendi states that “It [i.e. Baha’ism’s] fundamental laws and cardinal principals, the warp and woof of the future world order, had been clearly enunciated.�?

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