This is the month [Birth of Baha’u’llah’] wherein Paradise
itself was decked forth with the splendours of the countenance of its Lord, the
All-Merciful, and the heavenly Nightingale warbled its melody upon the Divine
Lote-Tree, and the hearts of the favoured ones were filled with rapture. But
alas, the people, for the most part, are heedless. Blessed be the one who hath
recognized Him and apprehended that which was promised in the Books of God, the
Almighty, the All-Praised; and woe betide him that hath turned aside from the
One upon Whom the Concourse on high have fixed their gaze, Him Who hath confounded
every wayward misbeliever.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
