with the light of
her Lord, and the Book shall be set, and the Prophets shall be brought up,
and the witnesses; and judgment shall be given between them with equity;
and none shall be wronged."

The plenitude of His glory the Apostle of God had, moreover, as attested
by Baha'u'llah Himself, compared to the "full moon on its fourteenth
night." His station the Imam 'Ali, the Commander of the Faithful, had,
according to the same testimony, identified with "Him Who conversed with
Moses from the Burning Bush on Sinai." To the transcendent character of
His mission the Imam Husayn had, again according to Baha'u'llah, borne
witness as a "Revelation whose Revealer will be He Who revealed" the
Apostle of God Himself.

About Him _Sh_ay_kh_ Ahmad-i-Ahsa'i, the herald of the Babi Dispensation,
who had foreshadowed the "strange happenings" that would transpire
"between the years sixty and sixty-seven," and had categorically affirmed
the inevitability of His Revelation had, as previously mentioned, written
the following: "The Mystery of this Cause must needs be made manifest, and
the Secret of this Message must needs be divulged. I can say no more, I
can appoint no time. His Cause will be made known after Hin (68)" (i.e.,
after a while).

Siyyid Kazim-i-Ra_sh_ti, _Sh_ay_kh_ Ahmad's disciple and successor, had
likewise written: "The Qa'im must needs be put to death. After He has been
slain the world will have attained the age of eighteen." In his
_Sh_arh-i-Qasidiy-i-Lamiyyih he had even alluded to the name "Baha."
Furthermore, to his disciples, as his days drew to a close, he had
significantly declared: "Verily, I say, after the Qa'im the Qayyum will be
made manifest. For when the star of the former has set the sun of the
beauty of Husayn will rise and illuminate the whole world. Then will be
unfolded in all its glory the 'Mystery' and the 'Secret' spoken of by
_Sh_ay_kh_ Ahmad.... To have attained unto that Day of Days is to have
attained unto the crowning glory of past generations, and one goodly deed
performed in that age is equal to the pious worship of countless
centuries."

The Bab had no less significantly extolled Him as the "Essence of Being,"
as the "Remnant of God," as the "Omnipotent Master," as the "Crimson,
all-encompassing Light," as "Lord of the visible and invisible," as the
"sole Object of all previous Revelations, including The Revelation of the
Qa'im Himself." He had formally designated Him as "He Whom God shal