Kitáb-i-Íqán

The Book of Certitude (Persian كتاب ايقان Ketab -e Ighan, DMG Ketab -e Íqán, Bahai transcription Kitáb -i - Íqán ) is a 1861 in Baghdad, written by Baha'ullah scripture. As an apology for the claim of Babs, it relates ostensibly Shiite Mahdi expectations, but shall specify the metaphysical foundations of the Baha'i faith and accesses within the exegesis of the Bible and Quran topics in the areas of theology, eschatology and epistemology.

Background

1862 Baha'ullah lived as an exile in Baghdad, which belonged at that time to the Ottoman Empire. Baha'ullah received his revelation already about ten years before the writing of this book in the Siyah Chal, a dungeon in Tehran, had not yet declared his revelation to the public. References to his own revelation ie found only in an indirect and implied. This book is an answer to the questions which were of an uncle of the Bab maternal Hajj Mirza Siyyid Muhammad to be in terms of cause and validity of the claim of the Bab, the promised Qa'im and thus the harbinger of a new religion posed. The Kitab -i - Iqan was written within two days and nights.

It sets the theological core teachings of Baha'ullah and consequently of the Bahai faith. For Baha'is, it is the fulfillment of the Persian Bayan.

Content

The book is divided into two parts. The first part represents the underlying the Baha'i faith principle of the unity of God and the stage of the Manifestations of God, by which alone man can know God. Based on this, the work deals with the unity of the teachings of all the Prophets of God, and introduces the idea that divine revelation is progressive and build on each other religions by any monotheistic religion the preceding and following accepted. Often you can find evidence for the prophecy of the next prophet. Since the person to whom the Kitab -i - Iqan was addressed, a Muslim, was used Baha'u'llah verses from the Bible to show how a Christian could interpret his own sacred texts allegorically, unlike the Christian clergy does so in order to accept the following religion can. The same method he uses the Koran to prove the validity of the claims of the Bab. The second and larger part of the book is the detailed presentation and discussion of specific evidence, theological and logical in nature, for the divine mission of the Bab.