10: "Consider, how can he that faileth in the day of God's Revelation..."

Consider, how can he that faileth in the day of God's Revelation to attain

unto the grace of the "Divine Presence" and to recognize His

Manifestation, be justly called learned, though he may have spent aeons in

the pursuit of knowledge, and acquired all the limited and material

learning of men? It is surely evident that he can in no wise be regarded

as possessed of true knowledge. Whereas, the most unlettered of all men,

if he be honoured with this supreme distinction, he verily is accounted as

one of those divinely-learned men whose knowledge is of God; for such a

man hath attained the acme of knowledge, and hath reached the furthermost

summit of learning.

("The Kitab-i-Iqan" (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1983), pp.

145-146) [10]

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