The Day of God
"Verily I say! No one hath apprehended the root of this Cause. It is incumbent upon
everyone, in this day, to perceive with the eye of God, and to hearken with His ear.
Whoso beholdeth Me with an eye besides Mine own will never be able to know Me.
None among the Manifestations of old, except to a prescribed degree, hath ever
completely apprehended the nature of this Revelation."
"I testify before God to the greatness, the inconceivable greatness of this Revelation.
Again and again have We, in most of Our Tablets, borne witness to this truth, that
mankind may be roused from its heedlessness." "How great is the Cause, how staggering
the weight of its Message!" "In this most mighty Revelation all the Dispensations of the
past have attained their highest, their final consummation." "That which hath been made
manifest in this preeminent, this most exalted Revelation, stands unparalleled in the
annals of the past, nor will future ages witness its like."
"The purpose underlying all creation is the revelation of this most sublime, this most holy
Day, the Day known as the Day of God, in His Books and Scriptures -- the Day which all
the Prophets, and the Chosen Ones, and the holy ones, have wished to witness." "The
highest essence and most perfect expression of whatsoever the peoples of old have either
said or written hath, through this most potent Revelation, been sent down from the
heaven of the Will of the All-Possessing, the Ever-Abiding God."
"This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men,
the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things." "This
is the Day whereon the Ocean of God's mercy hath been manifested unto men, the Day in
which the Daystar of His loving-kindness hath shed its radiance upon them, the Day in
which the clouds of His bountiful favor have overshadowed the whole of mankind."
"By the righteousness of Mine own Self! Great, immeasurably great is this Cause!
Mighty, inconceivably mighty is this Day!" "Every Prophet hath announced the coming
of this Day, and every Messenger hath groaned in His yearning for this Revelation -- a
revelation which, no sooner had it been revealed than all created things cried out saying,
'The earth is God's, the Most Exalted, the Most Great!'"
"The Day of the Promise is come, and He Who is the Promised One loudly proclaimeth
before all who are in heaven and all who are on earth, 'Verily there is none other God but
He, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting!' I swear by God! That which had been
enshrined from eternity in the knowledge of God, the Knower of the seen and unseen, is
revealed. Happy is the eye that seeth, and the face that turneth towards, the Countenance
of God, the Lord of all being."
"Great indeed is this Day! The allusions made to it in all the sacred Scriptures as the Day
of God attest its greatness. The soul of every Prophet of God, of every Divine Messenger,
hath thirsted for this wondrous Day. All the divers kindreds of the earth have, likewise,
yearned to attain it."
This Day a door is open wider than both heaven and earth. The eye of the mercy of Him
Who is the Desire of the worlds is turned towards all men. An act, however infinitesimal,
is, when viewed in the mirror of the knowledge of God, mightier than a mountain. Every
drop proffered in His path is as the sea in that mirror. For this is the Day which the one
true God, glorified be He, hath announced in all His Books, unto His Prophets and His
Messengers."
"This is a Revelation, under which, if a man shed for its sake one drop of blood, myriads
of oceans will be his recompense." "A fleeting moment, in this Day, excelleth centuries
of a bygone age.... Neither sun nor moon hath witnessed a day such as this Day." "This is
the Day whereon the unseen world crieth out, 'Great is thy blessedness, O earth, for thou
hast been made the footstool of thy God, and been chosen as the seat of His mighty
throne.'"
"The world of being shineth, in this Day, with the resplendency of this Divine Revelation.
All created things extol its saving grace, and sing its praises. The universe is wrapt in an
ecstasy of joy and gladness. The Scriptures of past Dispensations celebrate the great
Jubilee that must needs greet this most great Day of God. Well is it with him that hath
lived to see this Day, and hath recognized its station."
"This Day a different Sun hath arisen, and a different Heaven hath been adorned with its
stars and its planets. The world is another world, and the Cause another Cause." "This is
the Day which past ages and centuries can never rival. Know this, and be not of the
ignorant."
"This is the Day whereon human ears have been privileged to hear what He Who
conversed with God [Moses] heard upon Sinai, what He Who is the Friend of God
[Muhammad] heard when lifted up towards Him, what He Who is the Spirit of God
[Jesus] heard as He ascended unto Him, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting."
"This Day is God's Day, and this Cause His Cause. Happy is he who hath renounced this
world, and clung to Him Who is the Dayspring of God's Revelation." "This is the King of
Days, the Day that hath seen the coming of the Best Beloved, He Who through all
eternity hath been acclaimed the Desire of the World."
"This is the Chief of all days and the King thereof. Great is the blessedness of him who
hath attained, through the sweet savor of these days, unto everlasting life, and who, with
the most great steadfastness, hath arisen to aid the Cause of Him Who is the King of
Names. Such a man is as the eye to the body of mankind."
"Peerless is this Day, for it is as the eye to past ages and centuries, and as a light unto the
darkness of the times." "This Day is different from other days, and this Cause different
from other causes. Entreat ye the one true God that He may deprive not the eyes of men
from beholding His signs, nor their ears from hearkening unto the shrill voice of the Pen
of Glory."
"These days are God's days, a moment of which ages and centuries can never rival. An
atom, in these days, is as the sun, a drop as the ocean. One single breath exhaled in the
love of God and for His service is written down by the Pen of Glory as a princely deed.
Were the virtues of this Day to be recounted, all would be thunderstruck, except those
whom thy Lord hath exempted."
"By the righteousness of God! These are the days in which God hath proved the hearts of
the entire company of His Messengers and Prophets, and beyond them those that stand
guard over His sacred and inviolable Sanctuary, the inmates of the celestial Pavilion and
dwellers of the Tabernacle of Glory."
"Should the greatness of this Day be revealed in its fulness, every man would forsake a
myriad lives in his longing to partake, though it be for one moment, of its great glory --
how much more this world and its corruptible treasures!"
"God the true One is My Witness! This is the Day whereon it is incumbent upon
everyone that seeth to behold, and every ear that hearkeneth to hear, and every heart that
understandeth to perceive, and every tongue that speaketh to proclaim unto all who are in
heaven and on earth, this holy, this exalted, and all-highest Name."
"Say, O men! This is a matchless Day. Matchless must, likewise, be the tongue that
celebrateth the praise of the Desire of all nations, and matchless the deed that aspireth to
be acceptable in His sight. The whole human race hath longed for this Day, that
perchance it may fulfill that which well beseemeth its station and is worthy of its
destiny."
(Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 76)