The angels and the spirits, arrayed rank upon rank, descend,
by the leave of God, upon this Gate [cf. Qur’án 78:38] and circle round this
Focal Point in a far-stretching line. Greet them with salutations, O
Qurratu’l-‘Ayn, for the dawn hath indeed broken; then proclaim unto the
concourse of the faithful: ‘Is not the rising of the Morn, foreshadowed in the Mother
Book, to be near at hand? [cf. Qur’án 11:83]...’
O Qurratu’l-‘Ayn! Turn Thou eagerly unto God in Thy Cause,
for the peoples of the world have risen in iniquity, and but for the outpouring
of the grace of God and Thy mercy unto them, no one could purge even a single
soul for evermore. [cf. Qur’án 24:21] O Qurratu’l-‘Ayn! The life to come is
indeed far more advantageous unto Thee and unto such as follow Thy Cause than
this earthly life and its pleasures. This is what hath been foreordained
according to the dispensations of Providence... (The Báb, an excerpt from the
Qayyumu’l-Asma, ‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
