Bahai Provisions: A Rehash Of Bayan

8.     Did Baha In His Mind Abrogate Bayan?
There is no documentary evidence to indicate that Baha has abrogated the Bayan.
The available evidence is to the contrary. In fact Baha admits to have maintained the Bayan, pp.356-357, from the Risala-i-Badi.

In addition to the documentary evidence quoted supra, Baha in the Ishraq says: “His Holiness the Forerunner [i.e. the Primal Point] revealed laws, but the world of command was dependent on acceptance. Therefore this wronged one implemented some of them and revealed in Al-Kitab Al-Aqdas couched in other terms. In some others we tarried. The command is in his hands. He doeth what He willeth and he ordaineth what He pleaseth. He is the Mighty, the praise worthy. Some laws of new doctrines were also revealed.”

Further Baha had in 1862 in Baghdad written definitely that the Bayan had not been abrogated. He saith: “I swear to god that if any of the people of the Bayan (Bayanis) was to mention that the Book (Bayan) is abrogated may god break the mouth of the speaker and caluminator”.

The Tablet of Ishraqat (Illuminations) made up of nine Ishraq was written by Baha subsequent to the composition of Aqdas. It was incorporated in a book entitled the Ishraqat (Illuminations), Tarazat (Ornaments), Tajaliat (Effulgences). This book like the Aqdas and other holy writings of Baha was first revised by his son Mirza Muhammad Ali and Baha’s amanuensis Mirza Aqa Jan of Kashan and then printed by the said son in Bombay in 1890. Enclosure II; The Bahai World 1926-1928, Vol. II., P.200.

The following is an extract from one of Baha's letter during the Baqdad period:
“I swear by God,” Baha places on record with firm conviction, “that if any one of the People of the Bayan were to mention that the Book [i.e. Bayan] is abrogated, may god smash the mouth of the speaker and the calumniator, and by him who holds my soul and myself in his hands one letter from the Bayan is the most loved with me than all that are in the heavens and on the earth.”