If the mystic knowers be of those
who have reached to the beauty of the Beloved One (Mahbúb), this station [the
Fourth Valley] is the apex of consciousness and the secret of divine guidance.
This is the center of the mystery: “He doth what He willeth, ordaineth what He
pleaseth.” [Qur’án 2:254; 5:1, etc]
Were all the denizens of earth and
heaven to unravel this shining allusion, this darksome riddle, until the Day
when the Trumpet soundeth, yet would they fail to
comprehend even a letter thereof, for this is the station of God’s immutable
decree, His foreordained mystery. Hence, when searchers inquired of this, He
made reply, “This is a bottomless sea which none shall ever fathom.” [Statement
attributed to ‘Alí.] And they asked again, and He answered, “It is the blackest of nights
through which none can find his way.”
(Baha’u’llah, The Four Valleys)
