Names. Happy art
thou in that thou hast been faithful to the Covenant of God and His
Testament, until Thou didst sacrifice thyself before the face of thy Lord,
the Almighty, the Unconstrained. Thou, in truth, hast been wronged, and to
this testifieth the Beauty of Him, the Self-Subsisting. Thou didst, in the
first days of thy life, bear that which hath caused all things to groan,
and made every pillar to tremble. Happy is the one that remembereth thee,
and draweth nigh, through thee, unto God, the Creator of the Morn."

"Glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God!" He, in a prayer, astoundingly
proclaims, "Thou seest me in the hands of Mine enemies, and My son
bloodstained before Thy face, O Thou in Whose hands is the kingdom of all
names. I have, O my Lord, offered up that which Thou hast given Me, that
Thy servants may be quickened and all that dwell on earth be united."

"Blessed art thou," He, in another Tablet affirms, "and blessed he that
turneth unto thee, and visiteth thy grave, and draweth nigh, through thee,
unto God, the Lord of all that was and shall be.... I testify that thou
didst return in meekness unto thine abode. Great is thy blessedness and
the blessedness of them that hold fast unto the hem of thy outspread
robe.... Thou art, verily, the trust of God and His treasure in this land.
Erelong will God reveal through thee that which He hath desired. He,
verily, is the Truth, the Knower of things unseen. When thou wast laid to
rest in the earth, the earth itself trembled in its longing to meet thee.
Thus hath it been decreed, and yet the people perceive not.... Were We to
recount the mysteries of thine ascension, they that are asleep would
waken, and all beings would be set ablaze with the fire of the remembrance
of My Name, the Mighty, the Loving."

Concerning the Most Exalted Leaf, the mother of 'Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah
has written: "The first Spirit through which all spirits were revealed,
and the first Light by which all lights shone forth, rest upon thee, O
Most Exalted Leaf, thou who hast been mentioned in the Crimson Book! Thou
art the one whom God created to arise and serve His own Self, and the
Manifestation of His Cause, and the Day-Spring of His Revelation, and the
Dawning-Place of His signs, and the Source of His commandments; and Who so
aided thee that thou didst turn with thy whole being unto Him, at a time
when His servants and handmaidens had turned away from His Face. ...Happy
art thou, O My han