ether with all the Revelations gone before it, have as their object the
Manifestation destined to succeed it. And the latter, no less than all the
Revelations preceding it, prepare the way for the Revelation which is yet
to follow. The process of the rise and setting of the Sun of Truth will
thus indefinitely continue--a process that hath had no beginning and will
have no end.

Well is it with him who in every Dispensation recognizeth the Purpose of
God for that Dispensation, and is not deprived therefrom by turning his
gaze towards the things of the past. IV, 12.

"The substance of this chapter is this, that what is intended ..."

The substance of this chapter is this, that what is intended by the Day of
Resurrection is the Day of the appearance of the Tree of divine Reality,
but it is not seen that any one of the followers of _Sh_i'ih Islam hath
understood the meaning of the Day of Resurrection; rather have they
fancifully imagined a thing which with God hath no reality. In the
estimation of God and according to the usage of such as are initiated into
divine mysteries, what is meant by the Day of Resurrection is this, that
from the time of the appearance of Him Who is the Tree of divine Reality,
at whatever period and under whatever name, until the moment of His
disappearance, is the Day of Resurrection.

For example, from the inception of the mission of Jesus--may peace be upon
Him--till the day of His ascension was the Resurrection of Moses. For
during that period the Revelation of God shone forth through the
appearance of that divine Reality, Who rewarded by His Word everyone who
believed in Moses, and punished by His Word everyone who did not believe;
inasmuch as God's Testimony for that Day was that which He had solemnly
affirmed in the Gospel. And from the inception of the Revelation of the
Apostle of God--may the blessings of God be upon Him--till the day of His
ascension was the Resurrection of Jesus--peace be upon Him--wherein the Tree
of divine Reality appeared in the person of Muhammad, rewarding by His
Word everyone who was a believer in Jesus, and punishing by His Word
everyone who was not a believer in Him. And from the moment when the Tree
of the Bayan appeared until it disappeareth is the Resurrection of the
Apostle of God, as is divinely foretold in the Qur'an; the beginning of
which was when two hours and eleven minutes had passed on the eve of the
fifth of Jamadiyu'l-Avval, 1260 A.H.,(66)