| Kitáb-i-Íqán | 35 |
as you have observed and are now observing,
is due solely to the imperfect and limited comprehension
of certain minds. Otherwise, they have
been at all times, and will through eternity continue
to be, exalted above every praising name, and
sanctified from every descriptive attribute. The
quintessence of every name can hope for no access
unto their court of holiness, and the highest and
purest of all attributes can never approach their
kingdom of glory. Immeasurably high are the
Prophets of God exalted above the comprehension
of men, who can never know them except by their
own Selves. Far be it from His glory that His
chosen Ones should be magnified by any other than
their own persons. Glorified are they above the
praise of men; exalted are they above human understanding!
The term "suns" hath many a time been applied
in the writings of the "immaculate Souls" unto the
Prophets of God, those luminous Emblems of Detachment.
Among those writings are the following
words recorded in the "Prayer of Nudbih": (1)
"Whither are gone the resplendent Suns? Whereunto
have departed those shining Moons and
