Baha\'i Writings: When Will a New \"Manifestation of God\" Appear?
BahÄ’u’llÄh:
Never! [1]
BahÄ’u’llÄh:
Not before a thousand years![2]
`Abdu’l-BahÄ:
Not before 500000 years![3]
[1] “I swear by my True Self, all manifestations have come to an end by this Most Great Manifestation (meaning BahÄ’u’llÄh). Whoever claims (to be a manifestation) after that is a slandering  liar,†BahÄ’u’llÄh, IqtidÄrÄt wa chand lauḥ dÄ«gar, p. 327.
[2] “The Dispensation of BahÄ’u’llÄh will last until the coming of the next Manifestation of God, Whose advent will not take place before at least ‘a full thousand years’ will have elapsed,†BahÄ’u’llÄh, The KitÄbi Aqdas, p. 195.
[3] `Abdu’l-BahÄ uses the word cycle to refer to dispensation: “. . . in the first manifestation the sun will stop in the middle of the sky for ten days, in the second manifestation twenty days and in the third manifestation thirty days. Know that the first manifestation in this report is the manifestation of his Highness the Messenger (meaning Prophet Muhammad) in which the sun of reality stopped for ten days in that constellation and every day is equal to one century and by this calculation [those ten days] are a thousand years and that was the Muhammadan cycle and cycle (daur and kaur) [!] . . . the second manifestation, was the manifestation of the Primal point, may my soul be sacrificed for him, in which the Sun of Truth stopped in that cycle (daur) for twenty years . . . in the cycle (daur) of the blessed beauty . . . whose length will be at least 500000 years . . .†`Abdu’l-BahÄ, MakÄtÄ«b (Egypt), vol. 2, pp. 75–76.
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