Say: 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 Hín.”[2] We honoured the people of the Bayán with these words, that they might ascend thereby unto the heights of holiness and be numbered with the blest. Yet they have so utterly forsaken Our injunction that not a single one among them hath appeared in His presence as We had commanded in Our Tablets. Nay rather, from every side they have hurled at Him the darts of malice. And at this, I, and the denizens of the Kingdom of grandeur, and beyond them the Faithful Spirit, have wept sore.
- Bahá’u’lláh (From a Tablet; Baha'u'llah speaks in the voice of the Báb; ‘Days of Remembrance’)
[1] The Báb
[2] The numerical value of the letters of the word Hín is
68. “After Hín” 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.
