object of all the Prophets gone before Him has been fulfilled, is a truth which I feel it my duty to demonstrate and emphasize. We would assuredly be failing in our duty to the Faith we profess and would be violating one of its basic and sacred principles if in our words or by our conduct we hesitate to recognize the implications of this root principle of Bahá'í belief, or refuse to uphold unreservedly its integrity and demonstrate its truth. Indeed the chief motive actuating me to undertake the task of edi ting and translating Nabíl's immortal Narrative has been to enable every follower of the Faith in the West to better understand and more readily grasp the tremendous implications of His exalted station and to more ardently admire and love Him.	Pananampalatayang Bahá'í, na sa Kanyang katauhan, na pinatutunayan Niya Mismo sa Persianong Bayán, ang pakay ng lahat ng mga Propeta na dumating nang una sa Kanya ay natupad na, ay isang katotohanan na pakiramdam ko ay tungkulin kong ipakita at bigyang-diin.
There can be no doubt that the claim to the twofold station ordained for the Báb by the Almighty, a claim which He Himself has so boldly advanced, which Bahá'u'lláh has repeatedly affirmed, and to - á which the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l Bah has finally given the sanction of its testimony, á'í constitutes the most distinctive feature of the Bah Dispensation. It is a further evidence of its uniqueness, a tremendous accession to the strength, to the mysterious power and authority with which this holy cycle has been invested. Indeed the greatness of the Báb consists primarily, not in His being the divinely-appointed Forerunner of so transcendent a Revelation, but rather in His having been invested with the powers inherent in the inaugurator of a separate religious Dispensation, and in His wielding, to a degree unrivaled by the Messengers gone before Him, the scepter of independent Prophethood.	2. Hindi maaaring magkaroon ng alinlangan na ang karapatan sa dalawang katayuan na itinalaga sa Báb ng Makapangyarihan sa Lahat, isang karapatan na lubhang pangahas na ipinahayag Niya Mismo, na paulit- ulit na pinagtibay ni Bahá'u'lláh, at sa katapusan, na ibinigay ng Habilin at Testamento ni 'Abdu'l -Bahá, ang pagpapatibay sa katunayan nito, ay bumubuo sa pinaka-namumukod na katangian ng Pananampalatayang Bahá'í. Ito ay isa pang karagdagang katibayan ng pagiging bukod- tangi nito, isang kahanga-hangang karagdagan sa lakas, sa mahiwagang lakas at kapangyarihan na ipinagkaloob sa banal na pag-inog nito. Tunay na ang kadakilaan ng Báb ay nangungunang nasasalalay, hindi sa Kanyang pagiging banal na hinirang na Tagapagbalita ng isang lubhang nangingibabaw na Pagpapahayag, kundi dahilan sa Kanyang pagiging pinagkalooban ng mga kapangyarihan na likas sa tagapag-pasinaya ng isang nabubukod na pangrelihiyong Dispensasyon, at sa Kanyang paggamit sa setro ng isang may malayang katayuan bilang Propeta, sa isang antas na hindi natularan ng mga Sugo na nauna sa Kanya.
The short duration of His Dispensation, the restricted range within which His laws and ordinances have been made to operate, supply no criterion whatever wherewith to judge its Divine origin and to evaluate the potency of its message. 'That so brief a span,' Bahá'u'lláh Himself explains, 'should have separated this most mighty and wondrous Revelation from Mine own previous Manifestation, is a secret that no man can unravel and a mystery such as no mind can fathom. Its duration had been foreordained, and no man shall	3. Ang maikling panahon ng Kanyang Dispensasyon, ang mga hangganang itinakda upang ang Kanyang mga batas at alituntunin ay maisagawa, ay hindi makapagbibigay ng anumang batayan upang husgahan ang Banal na pinagmulan nito at 'Na isang upang mataya ang bisa ng mensahe nito. napakaikling panahon,' ipinaliliwanag ni 'ang naghiwalay sa pinaka - Bahá'u'lláh Mismo, makapangyarihan at kamangha-manghang Rebelasyong ito sa Aking sariling dating Kahayagan, ay isang lihim na walang sinuman ang

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