Know then that when Muhammad, the Point of the Qur’án and the Light of
the All-Glorious, came with perspicuous verses and luminous proofs manifested
in such signs as are beyond the power of all existence to produce, He bade all
men follow this lofty and outstretched Path in accordance with the precepts
that He had brought from God. Whoso acknowledged Him, recognized the signs of
God in His inmost Being, and saw in His beauty the changeless beauty of God,
the decree of “resurrection”, “ingathering”, “life”, and “paradise” was passed
upon him. For he who had believed in God and in the Manifestation of His beauty
was raised from the grave of heedlessness, gathered together in the sacred
ground of the heart, quickened to the life of faith and certitude, and admitted
into the paradise of the divine presence. What paradise can be loftier than
this, what ingathering mightier, and what resurrection greater? Indeed, should
a soul be acquainted with these mysteries, he would grasp that which none other
hath fathomed.
(Baha’u’llah,
‘The Tabernacle of Unity, Bahá’u’lláh’s Responses to Mánikchí Sáhib and Other
Writings’)
