O denizens of earth and heaven! Abandon your couches and
undertake the Most Great Pilgrimage for the sake of this pure and refulgent
Beauty. Should God witness your inability to do so, He will exempt you
therefrom and command you instead to approach Him with heart and soul. And they
alone shall attain this who behold all that is in the heavens and on the earth
as a day wherein none was deemed worthy of mention. [Cf. Qur’án 76:1] These are
they to whom their Lord will give to drink, from His own hands, of the sealed
wine of holiness. Verily, whoso turneth his face towards this most blessed and
luminous Spot, round him shall circle resplendent suns whose effulgence knoweth
neither beginning nor end, and above the horizon of his heart there shall dawn
that Sun of suns before Whose light the orbs of worldly names are wrapped in
darkness, if ye be of them that understand. - Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
