In other instances, they [1] have idly contended that whereas the
Day of Judgment is inevitable, it hath therefore been referred to as an event
not of the future but of the past. How vain their sophistry! How grievous their
blindness! They refuse to recognize the trumpet-blast which so explicitly in
this text was sounded through the revelation of Muhammad. They deprive
themselves of the regenerating Spirit of God that breathed into it, and
foolishly expect to hear the trumpet-sound of the Seraph of God who is but one
of His servants! Hath not the Seraph himself, the angel of the Judgment Day, and
his like been ordained by Muhammad’s own utterance? Say: What! Will ye give that which is for your
good in exchange for that which is evil? Wretched is that which ye have falsely
exchanged! Surely ye are a people, evil, in grievous loss.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan)
[1] People at the time
of Muhammad
