Of all the tributes which Bahá’u’lláh’s unerring pen has chosen to pay to
the memory of the Báb, His “Best-Beloved,” the most memorable and touching
is this brief, yet eloquent passage which so greatly enhances the value of
the concluding passages of that same epistle. “Amidst them all,” He
writes, referring to the afflictive trials and dangers besetting Him in
the city of Ba_gh_dád, “We stand life in hand wholly resigned to His Will,
that perchance through God’s loving kindness and grace, this revealed and
manifest Letter (Bahá’u’lláh) may lay down His life as a sacrifice in the
path of the Primal Point, the most exalted Word (the Báb). By Him, at
Whose bidding the Spirit hath spoken, but for this yearning of Our soul,
We would not, for one moment, have tarried any longer in this city.”
Dearly-beloved friends! So resounding a praise, so bold an assertion
issued by the pen of Bahá’u’lláh in so weighty a work, are fully re-echoed
in the language in which the Source of the Bábí Revelation has chosen to
clothe the claims He Himself has advanced. “I am the Mystic Fane,” the Báb
thus proclaims His station in the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá, “which the Hand of
Omnipotence hath reared. I am the Lamp which the Finger of God hath lit
within its niche and caused to shine with deathless splendor. I am the
Flame of that supernal Light that glowed upon Sinai in the gladsome Spot,
and lay concealed in the midst of the Burning Bush.” “O Qurratu’l-‘Ayn!”
He, addressing Himself in that same commentary, exclaims, “I recognize in
Thee none other except the ‘Great Announcement’—the Announcement voiced by
the Concourse on high. By this name, I bear witness, they that circle the
Throne of Glory have ever known Thee.” “With each and every Prophet, Whom
We have sent down in the past,” He further adds, “We have established a
separate Covenant concerning the ‘Remembrance of God’ and His Day.
Manifest, in the realm of glory and through the power of truth, are the
‘Remembrance of God’ and His Day before the eyes of the angels that circle
His mercy-seat.” “Should it be Our wish,” He again affirms, “it is in Our
power to compel, through the agency of but one letter of Our Revelation,
the world and all that is therein to recognize, in less than the twinkling
of an eye, the truth of Our Cause.”
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