126 Various Petitions Have Come Before Our Throne From The Believers
concerning laws from God... We have, in consequence, revealed this Holy
Tablet and arrayed it with the mantle of His Law that haply the people may
keep the commandments of their Lord. 98
For a number of years, Baha'u'llah states in one of His Tablets,
petitions reached the Most Holy Presence from various lands begging for
the laws of God, but We held back the Pen ere the appointed time had
come. Not until twenty years from the birth of His Prophetic Mission in
the Siyah-Chal of Tihran had elapsed did Baha'u'llah reveal the
Kitab-i-Aqdas, the Repository of the laws of His Dispensation. Even after
its revelation the Aqdas was withheld by Him for some time before it was
sent to the friends in Persia. This divinely purposed delay in the
revelation of the basic laws of God for this age, and the subsequent
gradual implementation of their provisions, illustrate the principle of
progressive revelation which applies even within the ministry of each
Prophet.
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