17.    Point’s Reply to The Letter of the Living Mulla Baqir

17.2.   Introduction

1. No one is at liberty to inquire about He-Whom-God-Shall-Make-Manifest before his appearance. Enclosure I, the Arabic Bayan, Wáhid vi, BÁB 19, p.62, printed text. For reasons not far to seek Baha repealed this commandment: “In al-Bayan it was for you to ask. God has exempted you from the commandment…. “ Elder’s translation, p.57.
2. Mulla Baqir of Tabriz was one of the Point’s Letters of the Living. He put a question in writing to the Primal Point concerning He-Whom-God-Shall-Make-Manifest.
3. The Point’s reply to Mulla Baqir is available. Enclosure II, complete text of the Point’s reply to Mulla Baqir, typed, typing mistakes excepted, seven pages.
4. Excerpts from the Point’s reply to Mulla Baqir appear in the Kitab-i-Zuhur-al-Haq Vol III. Written anonymously by a Bahai missionary reportedly One Fadil, to whom Niku refers as Avicena of Bahais (Kashf-al-Hiyal by Awara, Vol. II., 2nd printing, p.144, footnote 1).
5. Excerpts from the Point’s reply to Mulla Baqir appear in Nicholas French translation of the Persian Bayan, Vol. III., preface pp. v-x.
6. As usual Baha does not specify the Point’s particular writings to which the excerpts relate. To mislead and confuse the reader or the investigator, the excerpts quoted by Baha are sandwiched in between other quotations from here and there that have nothing to do with the Point’s reply to Mulla Baqir. In god passes by Shoghi Effendi has walked in the footsteps of his great grandfather.

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