Days of Remembrance
Riḍván
the divine decree was fulfilled with the departure of the Luminary of the heaven of eternity from the city of
Baghdád. This came to pass by reason of what the hands of the malicious had wrought against this Light—a Light that hath outshone every other in its sacred and wondrous splendour. Blessed, then, be He Who hath sent down these
twin Revelations through His most great, His most mighty sovereignty!
6At the advent of this
Manifestation the realities of all created things were filled with joy, and all seized the cup of ecstasy with the hands of longing and rapture and drank thereof the choicest wine for love of this Beauty—a Beauty that hath appeared through the power of truth, arrayed with the ornament of God, the Sovereign, the Just, the All-Wise. Blessed, then, be He Who, through this
Revelation, hath attracted the hearts of the well-favoured of the Lord!
7Say: This is the Day for which the
Pen of the Most High hath ordained no peer, and whose like the denizens of the
Concourse on high and the realities of the Prophets and Messengers of God have never attained. Blessed, then, be He Who hath made manifest this hallowed and sacred, this mighty and wondrous Day!
8This is the Day whereon the pillars of the Throne trembled in their yearning for God to establish Himself thereon, the Day whereon the foundations of the most lofty Seat were stirred into motion. Blessed, then, be God, the Source of this rapture that hath seized the entire creation!
9This is the Day whereon the Sun of Beauty dawned above the horizon of the countenance of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Great, and the clouds of bounty rained down, and the trees of
Paradise yielded such fruits as God hath apportioned to them that turn unto Him with radiant hearts in this
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