Gracious God! Notwithstanding the warning which, in marvelously
symbolic language and subtle allusions, hath been uttered in days past, and
which was intended to awaken the peoples of the world and to prevent them from
being deprived of their share of the billowing ocean of God’s grace, yet such
things as have already been witnessed have come to pass! Reference to these
things hath also been made in the Qur’án, as witnessed by this verse: “What can
such expect but that God should come down to them overshadowed with clouds?” [Qur’án 2:210] A number of the divines, who hold firmly to
the letter of the Word of God, have come to regard this verse as one of the
signs of that expected resurrection which is born of their idle fancy. This,
notwithstanding the fact that similar references have been made in most of the
heavenly Books, and have been recorded in all the passages connected with the
signs of the coming Manifestation.
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan)
