“Certainly the fact of writing, currente calamo, a new commentary on a súrih whose meaning is so obscure, should deeply astonish the Siyyid Yahyá, but that which surprised him even more was to find, in this commentary, the explanation that he, himself, had found in his meditation on these three verses. Thus he found himself in agreement with the Reformer in the interpretation that he had believed himself to be the only one to have reached and that he had not made known to anyone.”
(A. L. M. Nicolas’ “Siyyid
‘Alí-Muhammad dit le Báb,” p. 234.; footnotes provided by Shoghi Effendi to
chapter 9)
