Abrogated Laws: Offering Priceless Gifts to the Founder of the Faith

Offering Priceless Gifts to the Founder of the Faith

God had formerly laid upon each one of the believers the duty of offering before Our throne priceless gifts from among his possessions. Now, in token of Our gracious favor, We have absolved them of this obligation. He, of a truth, is the Most Generous, the All-Bountiful**.**

(The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The Most Holy Book, Bahá’u’lláh, para. 114)

“God had formerly laid upon each one of the believers the duty of offering before Our throne priceless gifts from among his possessions. Now … We have absolved them of this obligation”

This passage abrogates a provision of the Bayán which decreed that all objects unparalleled of their kind should, upon the appearance of Him Whom God will make manifest, be rendered unto Him. The Báb explained that, since the Manifestation of God is beyond compare, whatever is peerless in its kind should rightfully be reserved for Him, unless He decrees otherwise.

(The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The Most Holy Book, Notes NO. 141)