Thou hast asked regarding the subject of the return. Know
thou that the end is like unto the beginning. Even as thou dost consider the
beginning, similarly shouldst thou consider the end, and be of them that truly
perceive. Nay, rather consider the beginning as the end itself, and so
conversely, that thou mayest acquire a clear perception. Know thou moreover that
every created thing is continually brought forth and returned at the bidding of
thy Lord, the God of power and might.
As to the Return, as God hath purposed in His sacred and
exalted Tablets wherein He hath made this theme known unto His servants; by this
is meant the return of all created things in the Day of Resurrection, and this
is indeed the essence of the Return as thou hast witnessed in God’s own days
and thou art of them that testify to this truth.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
