O Maryam! Appreciate the value of these days, for erelong
thou shalt no longer behold the Celestial Youth in this contingent realm, but
shalt perceive the signs of grief in all created things. Soon shall ye bite
your fingers’ ends in remorse, for ye shall fail to find this Youth, even were
ye to search out the reaches of earth and heaven. Thus hath the decree been sent
down from the realm of transcendent glory. Yea, erelong thou shalt behold all
existence biting its fingers in bereavement over this Youth, and, search as it
may through the entirety of every earth and every heaven, yet will it fail to
attain His presence. - Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
