"Rejoice with exceeding gladness
in your hearts and souls, for the night hath come for the harvesting of the
ages and the gathering up of past cycles,
the night wherein all days and nights
were called into being and the time preordained for this Revelation was
fulfilled...
This is the night wherein the
doors of Paradise were flung open... the night wherein the paradise of the
All-Merciful was unveiled in the midmost heart of creation...
All joy to this night through which all
days have been suffused with light...
...for the Morn of divine
Revelation hath dawned... All glory, then, to this Dawn which hath broken above
the dayspring of effulgent glory!...
This is the Dawn whereat was born
He Who begetteth not and Who is not begotten...
This is the Dawn whereat the
cohorts of the concourse of Paradise and the hosts of the angels of holiness
descended from heaven...
This is the Dawn whereat the Most
Great Tree was planted and bore its exalted and peerless fruits...
One
fruit of that Tree hath proclaimed what the Burning Bush had proclaimed
aforetime in that hallowed and snow-white Spot,
words to which Moses gave ear
and which caused Him to forsake all created things and to direct His steps
towards the retreats of holiness and grandeur...
Another
fruit thereof hath uttered that which enraptured Jesus and raised Him up to the
heaven of manifest splendour...
Yet another fruit
thereof hath disclosed that which captivated the heart of Muhammad, the Apostle
of God, Who,
carried away by the sweet accents of the Voice from on high,
ascended unto the Divine Lote-Tree and heard...
the Voice of God speaking forth
the mystery of My hallowed, My exalted and mighty Name.
All glory, then, to this Tree
which hath been raised up through the power of truth, that all the peoples of
the world may seek the shelter of its shade!"
—
Bahá’u’lláh, Days of Remembrance #42
