In the name He bore He combined those of the Imám Husayn,
the most illustrious of the successors of the Apostle of God—the brightest
“star” shining in the “crown” mentioned in the Revelation of St. John—and of
the Imám ‘Alí, the Commander of the Faithful, the second of the two “witnesses”
extolled in that same Book. He was formally designated Bahá’u’lláh, an
appellation specifically recorded in the Persian Bayán, signifying at once the
glory, the light and the splendor of God, and was styled the “Lord of Lords,”
the “Most Great Name,” the “Ancient Beauty,” the “Pen of the Most High,” the
“Hidden Name,” the “Preserved Treasure,” “He Whom God will make manifest,” the
“Most Great Light,” the “All-Highest Horizon,” the “Most Great Ocean,” the
“Supreme Heaven,” the “Pre-Existent Root,” the “Self-Subsistent,” the “Day-Star
of the Universe,” the “Great Announcement,” the “Speaker on Sinai,” the “Sifter
of Men,” the “Wronged One of the World,” the “Desire of the Nations,” the “Lord
of the Covenant,” the “Tree beyond which there is no passing.”
- Shoghi Effendi
(God Passes By)
