This is the Day whereon the most grievous veil was torn
asunder and the Scene of transcendent purity was made manifest; the Day whereon
the face of God smiled with the joy of reunion, and the gates of His presence
were flung open to the embodiments of His beauty and majesty and to them that
had pierced the veils of glory through the power born of God, the Almighty, the
All-Knowing, the All-Wise; the Day whereon all things visible and invisible
cried out: “Hallowed be the Lord, the most excellent of all creators!”
Whereupon the Most Great Spirit was summoned to silence, and
the rapture of God seized the inhabitants of the cities of eternity, the
inmates of the crimson chambers, and the dwellers of the kingdom of names. One
and all they descended from their habitations until they stood betwixt earth
and heaven, with utmost humility and submissiveness, before His Countenance.
Blessed, then, be God, Who hath made manifest this resistless, this
all-glorious and transcendent Cause!
Then were their voices lifted up in praise and exultation on
this glorious Day, a Day whose radiance deriveth not from the sun and its rays
but from the effulgent light of the Countenance of God, the King, the Exalted,
the All-Bountiful. Blessed, then, be He Who hath caused it to appear through
the power of truth and Who hath resurrected therein the souls of all humankind!
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)