(64) O loved ones of God, These two precious and most exalted
treasures,(65) these two keepsakes of the sacred Beauty of Abhá, have now
been joined to the third trust from Him, that is, to the daughter of Bahá
and His remnant, the token of the Master’s Remembrance.
Their resting-places are in one area, on an elevation close by the Spot
round which do circle the Concourse on High, and facing the Qiblih of the
people of Bahá—Akká, the resplendent city, and the sanctified, the
luminous, the Most Holy Shrine.
Within the shadow of these honoured tombs has also been laid the remains
of the consort(66) of Him round Whom all names revolve.
For joy, the Hill of God is stirred at so high an honour, and for this
most great bestowal the mountain of the Lord is in rapture and ecstasy.
31: His nine-year-old son, later surnamed the ...
(67) His(68) nine-year-old son, later surnamed the ‘Most Great Branch’,
destined to become the Centre of His Covenant and authorized Interpreter
of His teachings, together with His seven-year-old sister, known in later
years by the same title(69) as that of her illustrious mother, and whose
services until the ripe old age of four score years and six, no less than
her exalted parentage, entitle her to the distinction of ranking as the
outstanding heroine of the Bahá’í Dispensation, were ... included among
the exiles who were now bidding their last farewell to their native
country.
32: ...as a further testimony to the majestic ...
(70) ...as a further testimony to the majestic unfoldment and progressive
consolidation of the stupendous undertaking launched by Bahá’u’lláh on
that holy mountain, may be mentioned the selection of a portion of the
school property situated in the precincts of the Shrine of the Báb as a
permanent resting-place for the Greatest Holy Leaf, the ‘well-beloved’
sister of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the ‘Leaf that hath sprung’ from the ‘Pre-existent
Root’, the ‘fragrance’ of Bahá’u’lláh’s ‘shining robe’, elevated by Him to
a ‘station such as none other woman hath surpassed’, and comparable in
rank to those immortal heroines such as Sarah, Ásíyih, the Virgin Mary,
Fátimih and Táhirih, each of whom has outshone every member of her sex in
previous Dispensations.
33: The raising of this Edifice will in turn ...
(71) The raising of this Edifice(72) will in turn herald the construction,
in the course of successive epochs of the Formative Age of the Faith, of
several other structures...
These Edifices will, in the shape of a far-flung arc, and following a
harmonizing style of architecture, surround the resting-places of the
Greatest Holy Leaf, ranking as foremost among the members of her sex in
the Bahá’í Dispensation, of her Brother, offered up as a ransom by
Bahá’u’lláh for the quickening of the world and its unification, and of
their Mother, proclaimed by Him to be His chosen ‘consort in all the
worlds of God’.
IV: PASSAGES FROM LETTERS WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
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