The Kitáb-i-Íqán (Arabic: كتاب الإيقان Persian: كتاب ايقان “The Book of Certitude”) is one of many books held sacred by followers of the Bahá’í Faith; it is their primary theological work. One Bahá’í scholar states that it can be regarded as the “most influential Koran commentary in Persian outside the Muslim world,” because of its international audience. It is sometimes referred to as the Book of Iqan or simply The Iqan.
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In like manner, those words that have streamed forth from the source of power and descended from the heaven of glory are innumerable and beyond the ordinary comprehension of man. To them that are possessed of true understanding and insight the Súrah of Húd surely sufficeth. Ponder a while those holy words in your heart, and, with utter detachment, strive to grasp their meaning. Examine the wondrous behaviour of the Prophets, and recall the defamations and denials uttered by the children of negation and falsehood, perchance you may cause the bird of the human heart to wing its flight away from the abodes of heedlessness and doubt unto the nest of faith and certainty, and drink deep from the pure waters of ancient wisdom, and partake of the fruit of the tree of divine knowledge. Such is the share of the pure in heart of the bread that hath descended from the realms of eternity and holiness.
