Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
hear what He Who conversed with God [Moses] heard upon Sinai, what He Who
is the Friend of God [Muḥammad] heard when lifted up towards Him, what He
Who is the Spirit of God [Jesus] heard as He ascended unto Him, the Help
in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.” “This Day is God’s Day, and this Cause His
Cause. Happy is he who hath renounced this world, and clung to Him Who is
the Dayspring of God’s Revelation.” “This is the King of Days, the Day
that hath seen the coming of the Best Beloved, He Who through all eternity
hath been acclaimed the Desire of the World.” “This is the Chief of all
days and the King thereof. Great is the blessedness of him who hath
attained, through the sweet savor of these days, unto everlasting life,
and who, with the most great steadfastness, hath arisen to aid the Cause
of Him Who is the King of Names. Such a man is as the eye to the body of
mankind.” “Peerless is this Day, for it is as the eye to past ages and
centuries, and as a light unto the darkness of the times.” “This Day is
different from other days, and this Cause different from other causes.
Entreat ye the one true God that He may deprive not the eyes of men from
beholding His signs, nor their ears from hearkening unto the shrill voice
of the Pen of Glory.” “These days are God’s days, a moment of which ages
and centuries can never rival. An atom, in these days, is as the sun, a
drop as the ocean. One single breath exhaled in the love of God and for
His service is written down by the Pen of Glory as a princely deed. Were
the virtues of this Day to be recounted, all would be thunderstruck,
except those whom thy Lord hath exempted.” “By the righteousness of God!
These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of the entire
company of His Messengers and Prophets, and beyond them those that stand
guard over His sacred and inviolable Sanctuary, the inmates of the
celestial Pavilion and dwellers of the Tabernacle of Glory.” “Should the
greatness of this Day be revealed in its fulness, every man would forsake
a myriad lives in his longing to partake, though it be for one moment, of
its great glory—how much more this world and its corruptible treasures!”
“God the true One is My Witness! This is the Day whereon it is incumbent
upon everyone that seeth to behold, and every ear that hearkeneth to hear,
and every heart that understandeth to perceive, and every tongue that
speaketh to proclaim unto all who are in heaven and on earth, this holy,
this exalted, and all-highest Name.” “Say, O men! This is a matchless Day.
Matchless must, likewise, be the tongue that celebrateth the praise of the
Desire of all nations, and matchless the deed that aspireth to be
acceptable in His sight. The whole human race hath longed for this Day,
that perchance it may fulfill that which well beseemeth its station and is
worthy of its destiny.”
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