…strive thou to comprehend the meaning of the melody of that
eternal beauty, Husayn, [Imám Husayn] son of ‘Alí, [Imám ‘Alí] who, addressing
Salmán, spoke words such as these: “I was with a thousand Adams, the interval
between each and the next Adam was fifty thousand years, and to each one of
these I declared the Successorship conferred upon my father… Endeavour… to
apprehend… the mysteries of “end,” “return,” and “creation without beginning or
end.” Endeavour now to apprehend from these two traditions the mysteries of
“end,” “return,” and “creation without beginning or end.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Iqan’)
