Baha'u'llah's book Kitab'i'Iqan (The Book of Certitude) is his apocalyptic masterwork.
The topical subject of the Iqan is the reader himself, that person who changes and transforms as he/she works to understand the various themes and sub-themes of this book.
Written as a treatise on past religious scriptures, the text works to unveil the hidden foundations of those various historical religious entities which are founded upon those texts. Such foundations are invariably hidden, just as the physical foundation of a large building is generally hidden, and can only be uncovered through an effort of great mental imagination and vision.
Baha'u'llah accomplishes this feat by deconstructing the religious scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all of which have been written in a highly symbolic form of apocalyptic grammar, thus allowing the hidden under-structure to be viewed by his readers, or rather to become unveiled-within-understanding within their consciousness as a part of mankind's continuing apocalyptic odyssey towards their ultimate self-becoming.
Thus Baha'u'llah makes his claim to be the revelator of our day, revealing all those things that had previously been hidden in human affairs and in human destiny.
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