This is the Day whereon the All-Merciful
hath come down in the clouds of
knowledge, clothed with manifest
sovereignty. He well knoweth the actions of
men. He it is Whose glory none can
mistake, could ye but comprehend it. The
heaven of every religion hath been
rent, and the earth of human understanding
been cleft asunder, and the angels
of God are seen descending. Say: This is
the Day of mutual deceit; whither
do ye flee? The mountains have passed away,
and the heavens have been folded
together, and the whole earth is held within
His grasp, could ye but understand
it. Who is it that can protect you? None, by
Him Who is the All-Merciful! None,
except God, the Almighty, the All-Glorious,
the Beneficent. Every woman that
hath had a burden in her womb hath cast
her burden. We see men drunken in
this Day, the Day in which men and
angels have been gathered together.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 45
Know ye that the world and its vanities
and its embellishments shall pass away.
Nothing will endure except God's
Kingdom which pertaineth to none but Him,
the Sovereign Lord of all, the Help
in Peril, the All-Glorious, the Almighty. The
days of your life shall roll away,
and all the things with which ye are occupied
and of which ye boast yourselves
shall perish, and ye shall, most certainly, be
summoned by
a company of His angels to appear at the spot where the limbs
of the entire creation shall be made
to tremble, and the flesh of every oppressor
to creep. Ye shall be asked of the
things your hands have wrought in this, your
vain life, and shall be repaid for
your doings. This is the day that shall inevitably
come upon you, the hour that none
can put back. To this the Tongue of Him
that speaketh the truth and is the
Knower of all things hath testified.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 125
Certain ones among you have said:
"He it is Who hath laid claim to be God." By
God! This is a gross calumny. I am
but a servant of God Who hath believed in Him
and in His
signs, and in His Prophets and in His angels. My tongue,
and My heart,
and My inner and My outer being testify
that there is no God but Him, that all others
have been created by His behest,
and been fashioned through the operation of His
Will. There is none other God but
Him, the Creator, the Raiser from the dead, the
Quickener, the Slayer. I am He that
telleth abroad the favors with which God hath,
through His bounty, favored Me. If
this be My transgression, then I am truly the first
of the transgressors. I and My kindred
are at your mercy. Do ye as ye please, and
be not of them that hesitate, that
I might return to God My Lord, and reach the
place where I can no longer behold
your faces. This, indeed, is My dearest wish,
My most ardent desire. Of My state
God is, verily, sufficiently informed, observant.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 228
4:136 O ye who believe! Believe in
God and His Apostle, and the scripture
which He hath sent to His Apostle and the scripture which He sent to
those before (him). Any who denieth God, His angels,
His Books, His
Apostles, and the Day of Judgment, hath gone far, far astray.
-- Qur'an: 4 - AN-NISA.
LXXII. Let not your hearts be perturbed,
O people, when the glory of My Presence
is withdrawn, and the ocean of My
utterance is stilled. In My presence amongst you
there is a wisdom, and in My absence
there is yet another, inscrutable to all but
God, the Incomparable, the All-Knowing.
Verily, We behold you from Our realm of
glory, and shall aid whosoever will
arise for the triumph of Our Cause with the
hosts of the Concourse on high and
a
company of Our favored angels.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 139
CLVII. They that have forsaken their
country for the purpose of teaching Our
Cause--these shall the Faithful Spirit
strengthen through its power. A company
of Our chosen
angels shall go forth with them, as bidden by Him Who is the
Almighty, the All-Wise. How great
the blessedness that awaiteth him that hath
attained the honor of serving the
Almighty! By My life! No act, however great,
can compare with it, except such
deeds as have been ordained by God, the
All-Powerful, the Most Mighty. Such
a service is, indeed, the prince of all goodly
deeds, and the ornament of every
goodly act. Thus hath it been ordained by Him
Who is the Sovereign Revealer, the
Ancient of Days.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 334
At that time, the signs of the Son
of man shall appear in heaven, that is, the
promised Beauty and Substance of
life shall, when these signs have appeared, step
forth out of the realm of the
invisible into the visible world. And He saith: at that
time, all the peoples and kindreds
that dwell on earth shall bewail and lament, and
they shall see that divine Beauty
coming from heaven, riding upon the clouds with
power, grandeur, and magnificence,
sending
His
angels with a great sound of a
trumpet.
Similarly, in the three other Gospels, according to Luke, Mark, and John,
the same statements are recorded.
As We have referred at length to these in Our
Tablets revealed in the Arabic tongue,
We have made no mention of them in
these pages, and have confined Ourselves
to but one reference.
-- Bahá'u'lláh, The
Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 25
Every one who hath turned aside from
Me hath clung to his own idle words,
and therewith voiced his objections
to Him Who is the Truth. Gracious God! Such
references as have been made to Divinity
and Godhead by the holy ones and
chosen ones of God have been made
a cause for denial and repudiation. The
Imám Sádiq hath said:
"Servitude is a substance, the essence of which is Divinity."
The Commander of the Faithful (Imám
`Alí) answered an Arab, who had questioned
him concerning the soul, as follows:
"The third is the soul which is divine and celestial.
It is a divine energy, a substance,
simple, and self-subsistent." And further he --
peace be upon him--said: "Therefore
it is the Most Sublime Essence of God, the
Tree of Blessedness, the Lote-Tree
beyond which there is no passing, the Garden
of Repose." The Imám
Sádiq hath said: "When our Qá'im will arise, the earth will
shine with the light of her Lord."
Likewise, a lengthy tradition is attributed to
Ábí-`Abdi'lláh--peace
be upon him--in which these sublime words are found: "Thereupon
will He Who is the All-Compelling--
exalted and glorified be He--descend from the
clouds with
the angels." And in the mighty Qur'án: "What
can such expect but that
God should come down to them overshadowed
with clouds?" And in the tradition of
Mufaddál it is said: "The
Qá'im will lean His back against the Sanctuary, and will
stretch forth His hand, and lo, it
shall be snow-white but unhurt. And He shall say:
`This is the hand of God, the right
hand of God, that cometh from God, at the
command of God!'" In whichever
manner these traditions are interpreted, in that
same manner let them also interpret
that which the Most Sublime Pen hath set down.
The Commander of the Faithful (Imám
`Alí) hath said: "I am He Who can neither be
named, nor described." And
likewise He hath said: "Outwardly I am an Imám; inwardly
I am the Unseen, the Unknowable."
-- Bahá'u'lláh, Epistle
to the Son of the Wolf, p. 111
16:27 For the
Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels;
and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
16:28 Verily I say unto you, There
be some standing here, which shall not taste
of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
-- Bible: Matthew.