| Kitáb-i-Íqán | 62 |
the heavenly teachings hath been eclipsed, the stars
of the divinely-established laws have fallen, and
the moon of true knowledge--the educator of mankind--
hath been obscured; when the standards of
guidance and felicity have been reversed, and the
morn of truth and righteousness hath sunk in night,
then shall the sign of the Son of man appear in
heaven. By "heaven" is meant the visible heaven,
inasmuch as when the hour draweth nigh on which
the Day-star of the heaven of justice shall be made
manifest, and the Ark of divine guidance shall sail
upon the sea of glory, a star will appear in the
heaven, heralding unto its people the advent of
that most great light. In like manner, in the invisible
heaven a star shall be made manifest who,
unto the peoples of the earth, shall act as a harbinger
of the break of that true and exalted Morn.
These twofold signs, in the visible and the invisible
heaven, have announced the Revelation of each of
the Prophets of God, as is commonly believed.
Among the Prophets was Abraham, the Friend
of God. Ere He manifested Himself, Nimrod
dreamed a dream. Thereupon, he summoned the
soothsayers, who informed him of the rise of a star
in the heaven. Likewise, there appeared a herald
