Praise be to Him Who hath honoured the Land of Bá [1]
through the presence of Him round Whom all names revolve. All the atoms of the
earth have announced unto all created things that from behind the gate of the
Prison-city there hath appeared and above its horizon there hath shone forth
the Orb of the beauty of the great, the Most Mighty Branch of God—His ancient
and immutable Mystery—proceeding on its way to another land. Sorrow, thereby,
hath enveloped this Prison-city, whilst another land rejoiceth. Exalted,
immeasurably exalted is our Lord, the Fashioner of the heavens and the Creator
of all things, He through Whose sovereignty the doors of the prison were
opened, thereby causing what was promised aforetime in the Tablets to be
fulfilled. He is verily potent over what He willeth, and in His grasp is the
dominion of the entire creation. He is the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, the
All-Wise.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] Beirut. This Tablet is ‘a letter dictated by Bahá’u’lláh
and addressed by Mírzá Áqá Ján, His amanuensis, to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá while the latter
was on a visit to Beirut.’ (The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 136.)
