Such is the greatness of this Day that the Hour itself is
seized with perturbation, and all heavenly Scriptures bear evidence to its
overpowering majesty. In this Day the Book solemnly testifieth to His glory and
the Balance is moved to lift up its voice. This is the Day wherein the Siraṭ
[1] calleth aloud: ‘I am the straight Path’, and Mount Sinai exclaimeth:
‘Verily the Lord of Revelation is come.’
Being overcome by the drunkenness of corrupt inclinations,
the people of the earth find themselves in a state of stupor. They are,
therefore, debarred from the wondrous signs of God, are prevented from
attaining the ultimate goal and are deprived of the liberal effusions of divine
grace.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] A symbolic bridge, impassable to sinners, over which the
believer must pass to heaven. In Islamic tradition it is finer than a hair,
sharper than the edge of a sword. Paradise lies beyond it, hell stretches
beneath.
