This is a Missive from the Primal Point [1] unto them that
have believed in God, the One, the Peerless, the Almighty, the All-Knowing,
wherein He addresseth those among the people of the Bayán who have vacillated
in this Cause, that haply they may apprehend the wondrous words of God and
forsake the couch of heedlessness in this shining and resplendent morn.
Say:[2] We, verily, bid you in Our Book not to advance
yourselves before those from whose ranks would appear He Who is the Beloved of
every understanding heart and the Object of the adoration of the denizens of
earth and heaven. Moreover, We commanded you, should ye attain the presence of
God, to stand before Him and to utter on My behalf these mighty and exalted
words: “Upon Thee, O Glory of God, and upon Thy kinfolk, be the remembrance of
God and the praise of all things at every moment before and after Ḥín.”[3]
- Baha’u’llah (Baha'u'llah speaks in the voice of the Báb, ‘Days of Remembrance’)
[1] The Báb
[2] Bahá’u’lláh speaks in the voice of the Báb
[3] The numerical value of the letters of the word Ḥín is
68. “After Ḥín” is thus an allusion to the year after A.H. 1268, which was 1269
(A.D. 1852–3), the year that marked the birth of the Bahá’í Revelation.
