Know… that He who uttered these words [1] in the realms of glory meant
to describe the attributes of the One Who is to come in such veiled and
enigmatic terms as to elude the understanding of the people of error. Now, when
He saith: “His eyes were as a flame of fire”, He alludeth but to the keenness
of sight and acuteness of vision of the Promised One, Who with His eyes burneth
away every veil and covering, maketh known the eternal mysteries in the
contingent world, and distinguisheth the faces that are obscured with the dust
of hell from those that shine with the light of paradise. [cf. Qur’án 80:41; 83:24] Were His eyes
not made of the blazing fire of God, how could He consume every veil and burn
away all that the people possess? How could He behold the signs of God in the
Kingdom of His names and in the world of creation? How could He see all things
with the all-perceiving eye of God? Thus have we conferred upon Him a
penetrating vision in this day. Would that ye believe in the verses of God!
For, indeed, what fire is fiercer than this flame that shineth in the
Sinai of His eyes, whereby He consumeth all that hath veiled the peoples of the
world? Immeasurably exalted shall God remain above all that hath been revealed
in His unerring Tablets concerning the mysteries of the beginning and the end
until that day when the Crier will cry out, the day whereon we shall all return
unto Him.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’, ‘Javáhiru’l-Asrár’)
[1] “His eyes were as a flame of fire”, and “brass-like were His feet”,
and “out of His mouth goeth a two-edged sword”. [cf. Rev. 1:14–16; 2:18; 19:15]
