“The people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted ...”
The people, during the absence of the Báb, re-enacted the episode of the Calf by setting up a blaring figure which embodied animal features in human form[45] ...
Whenever the people ask Thee of the appointed Hour say: Verily the knowledge of it is only with My Lord,[46] Who is the Knower of the unseen. There is none other God but Him—He Who hath created you from a single soul,[47] and I have no control over what profiteth Me or harmeth Me, but as My Lord pleaseth.[48] Indeed God is Self-Sufficient and He, My Lord, standeth supreme over all things. Chapter LXIX.
“Doth it seem strange to the people that We should have ...”
Doth it seem strange to the people that We should have revealed the Book to a man from among themselves in order to purge them and give them the good tidings that they shall be rewarded with a sure stance in the presence of their Lord? He indeed beareth witness unto all things...
When the verses of this Book are recited to the infidels they say: ‘Give us a book like the Qur’án and make changes in the verses.’ Say: ‘God hath not given Me that I should change them at My pleasure.’ I follow only what is revealed unto Me. Verily, I shall fear My Lord on the Day of Separation, whose advent He hath, in very truth, irrevocably ordained.[49] Chapter LXXI.