He is the Eternal.
Husayn, son of ‘Ayn [1]
Wealth and children are the adornment of this present life; but good works, which are lasting, are better in the sight of thy Lord as to recompense, and better as to hope. [2]
This son hath been an adornment of the Most Exalted Paradise and we see him now, through God’s grace and bounty, engaged in sightseeing [3] in the heavenly realms.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh’; Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World Center)
[1] Inscription on the tombstone of Husayn, son of the beloved Master. ‘Ayn is the first letter of his Father’s name, ‘Abbás.
[2] Cf. Qur’án 18:46.
[3] In the original Persian Bahá’u’lláh makes a fond play on the word “tamáshá” which means “sightseeing”, a word which the little child mispronounced as “tabáshá”, which has no meaning. Thus in the inscription: “we see Our ‘tabáshá’ now engaged in ‘tamáshá’ in the heavenly realms”.
