This is the night [Birth of Baha’u’llah] wherein the limbs
of Jibt were made to tremble, and the Most Great Idol fell upon the dust, and
the foundations of iniquity were shattered, and Manát lamented in its inmost being,
and the back of ‘Uzzá was broken and its face blackened;[1] for the Morn of
divine Revelation hath dawned, and there hath appeared that which hath solaced
the eyes of glory and majesty, and beyond them the eyes of all the Prophets and
Messengers of God. All glory, then, to this Dawn which hath broken above the
dayspring of effulgent glory!
- Baha’u’llah (Tablet of the Birth, ‘Days of
Remembrance’)
[1] Jibt, Manát, and ‘Uzzá are the names of idols worshipped
in the days of the pagan Arabs and mentioned in the Qur’án (4:51 and 53:19–20).
