Mullá Ḥusayn, the first Letter of the Living, surnamed the
Bábu’l-Báb (the Gate of the Gate); designated as the “Primal Mirror;” on whom
eulogies, prayers and visiting Tablets of a number equivalent to thrice the
volume of the Qur’án had been lavished by the pen of the Báb; referred to in
these eulogies as “beloved of My Heart;” the dust of whose grave, that same Pen
had declared, was so potent as to cheer the sorrowful and heal the sick; whom
“the creatures, raised in the beginning and in the end” of the Bábí
Dispensation, envy, and will continue to envy till the “Day of Judgment;” whom
the Kitáb-i-Íqán acclaimed as the one but for whom “God would not have been
established upon the seat of His mercy, nor ascended the throne of eternal
glory;” to whom Siyyid Kázim had paid such tribute that his disciples suspected
that the recipient of such praise might well be the promised One Himself—such a
one had likewise, in the prime of his manhood, died a martyr’s death at
Tabarsí.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
