16.    “Ere Nine”
In the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p.152, Baha produces the following passage in support of his claim: “He [i.e. the Primal Point] saith “Ere Nine will have elapsed from the inception of this cause, the relatives of the Created beings will not be made manifested. All that thou hast yet seen is but the stage from the mist germ until we clothed it with blood. Be patient thou beholdest a new creation. Say: “Blessed therefore, be god, the most excellent of Makers!” As usual Baha does not specify the Point’s particular book or writing from which this is extracted. The passage is quoted by Shoghi Effendi in god passes by, p.29. Shoghi Effendi also does not specify the Point’s particular book or writing from which the passage is extracted.

In the Quran, Sura xxiii the Believers, verses 11, 13, read as follows: “Now of fine clay have we created men; There we placed him, in a moist germ, in a safe abode; Then made we the moist germ a clot of blood; Then made the clothed blood into a piece of flesh; Then made the piece of flesh into bones; and we clothed the bones with flesh; then brought forth man of yet another make, Blessed therefore be god, the most Excellent of Martyrs” (Rodwell’s translation).

In his Sahifa-i-Adliyya which he wrote after his return to Iran from the pilgrim to Mecca the Primal Point says: “the days of the moist germ of religion was in the days of the First Manifestation Adam when men of those times were in the stage of moist germ of Truth.” Both religion and men proceeded in their evolution and at the time of the manifestation of Muhammad they had both attended unto the stage of “we clothed the bones with flesh: then brought forth man of yet another make, Blessed therefore be god, the Most Excellent of Makers.”

Hence the abrogation of divine laws and religions; because the application of what was prescribed for “the day of the moist germ”. To “the day of piece of flesh” is sheer injustice. The Primal Point then speaks of the dissensions and differences that arose among the Shia sect and claims that he was chosen for his mission to which he refers by intimation and implication. There is no mention of “Ere Nine” in the text “Be patient until thou beholdest a new creation.” Should read “then we brought forth man of yet another make”, which is a quotation from the Quran, with which one is not at liberty to tamper.

Text in which the passage appears is as follows:

حال که ملاحظه نقطه حقیقت را در کل شیئ نمودی حکم دین را هم چنان یقین کن که در یوم نطفه در ایام اول بدیع آدم علیه السلام بوده که اهل آن زمان حق واقع در مقام نطفه حقیقت واقع بوده اند وهمین قسم نفس دین و اهل آن به قدرت الله ترقی نموده اند تا یوم ظهور حقیقت محمدیه صلی الله علیه و آله که مقام دین و اهل آن به مقام فکسونا العظام لحماتم انشأناه خلقا آخر رسیده بوده فتبارک الله احسن الخالقین و از این جهت است نسخ شرایع و ملل لاجل آنکه تکلیفی که بیوم نطفه بوده هرگاه بیوم مضغه شود محض ظلم است و بعد از آنکه تکلیف بمقام خلق لحمیه تعلق گرفت بعلت اینکه تبدیلی از برای او مقدر نشده این شریعت مقدسه هم نسخ نخواهد شد بل حلال محمد صلی الله علیه و آله حلال الی یوم القیمه و حرام محمد صلی الله علیه و آله حرام الی یوم القیمة و بعد از آنکه نطفه دین باوامر دین مبین فرموده

There is nothing in the text to connect it with Baha.

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