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because their implementation depended on the appearance of He whom God shall make manifest, while at the same time all of the laws would be abrogated unless the
Promised One would reaffirm them. Saiedi concludes that these can then only have a strategic and symbolic meaning, and were meant to break through traditions and to focus the Báb's followers on obedience to He whom God shall make manifest. The Báb stresses the importance of the recognition of the symbolic nature and spiritual meaning of each of his laws. In the Baháʼí view, Baháʼu'lláh is regarded as this Promised One. In his
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Persian Bayán, and did considerable work on the compilation of six manuscripts, but the work was never completed. This incomplete compilation, still exists in the Cambridge University Library (classmark Or. 1331–7 ), awaiting the attention of some
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One of the texts that the Azalis use to state that Subh-i-Azal was appointed as a viceregent is the controversial book
Nuqtutu'l-Kaq, but the book's statements are very contradictory and problematic. In one section of the book the author states that the Bayán may become abrogated within a few years
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may appear during Azal's time, then later he states that the abrogation of the Bayán and the appearance of the
Promised One could not occur before two thousand years. Even later the author makes the proposition that the Promised One is Subh-i-Azal himself, showing that the author truly did not
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Among the main themes of the Bayán are the mystic character of action, the prohibition of causing grief to others, refinement, perfection and the spiritualization of life and language. Baháʼí scholar, Nader Saiedi states that the severe laws of the Bayán were never meant to be put in practice,
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The book was intended to be composed of nineteen 'unities' each of nineteen chapters, consisting of a total of 361 sections, which had numerical significance, but this was left incomplete and stops in the ninth 'unity'. It was intended to be finished by
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