Brief compilation on Quddus, a Moon in the era of the Bab.
1)
Tablet of Visitation for the martyrs[2], on them be peace, who have
sacrificed themselves for the Last Name of God[3], Quddus, Quddus,
Quddus.
In the Name of God, the Most Inaccessible, the Most Holy!
Holy, holy, holy (quddus, quddus, quddus)! The glory from God, no other
God is there but He, rest upon thy heart and the heart of whomsoever is
in thy heart, and upon thy spirit and the spirit of whomsoever is in
thy spirit, and upon thy soul and whomsoever is in thy soul, and upon
thy body and whomsoever is in thy body. Then, the exaltation from God
rest upon thy heart and the heart of whomsoever hath been created from
the light of thy praise, and upon thy spirit and whomsoever hath been
created from the spirit of thy benediction, and upon thy soul and
whomsoever hath been created from the soul of thy unification,[4] and
upon thy body and whomsoever hath been created from the light of thy
glorification. Thou hast been raised up, nor is there above thee anyone
possessed of exaltation like unto thee; thou hast come near, nor is
there anyone possessed of proximity like unto thine. All created things
have given praise in unison out of the essence of thy praise, and all
atoms have rendered glorification out of the camphor of thy
glorification, and all the psychic entities have extolled the oneness
of God in unison out of the substance of thine extolling of His unity,
and all the individual realities have lauded the greatness of God in
unison out of the absolute reality of thy glorification of His
greatness. All render praise unto God through thee, and all sanctify
God through thee, and all extol God's singleness through thee, and all
magnify God through thee. So great hath been thine affliction that the
afflictions of all created things are cut off from any connection with
it; the calamity that hath overwhelmed thee hath reached so high a
station that no other calamity of any created thing may be mentioned in
the same breath as it. By thy glory, there is nothing in existence
apart from God that weepeth not sore over thee, that is not established
under thy shadow, that doth not praise God with the praise thou didst
offer, that doth not sanctify His name with the sanctification thou
didst render, that doth not extol the unity of God with the praise of
His unity that thou didst utter, and that doth not magnify God with the
magnification whereby thou didst honour His greatness. From all
eternity and unto all eternity thou hast been in the exaltation of
holiness and majesty, and unto all eternity thou shalt be in the height
of sanctity and beauteousness. Thou art he that hath become manifest
through the manifestation of thy Lord, and kept hidden through the
concealment of thy Lord, and thou art the First, for there is no first
save thee, and the Last, for there is no last other than thee. Thou
hast ascended through the degrees of creation unto that horizon where
none hath gone before thee; and thou hast been raised upon the throne
of thy glory on the highest horizon of paradise, higher than which
there is nothing whatever in the knowledge of God. I call upon thee and
upon all things as witnesses that thy blood is pure, untainted and
unsullied, and that through the residue of its very mention the
realities of all created things have been made manifest . . . I call
upon God and upon all things as witnesses that God hath sanctified thee
from all likenesses and hath given unto thee what He hath given unto no
one in His creation - not the dominion of earth and all that is on it,
but the dominion of Paradise and all that dwell therein. Thus, there
shall not come into the heart of anyone a mention of grandeur or might,
save that he shall come unto thee with a mention of humility and shall
descend to the door of thy courtyard in the utmost degree of abasement
. . . Verily, I call to witness the angels of the Throne and the Seat
and the heavens and the Most Exalted Paradise and the most glorious
garden, that circle about thy grave, and ask that they may take the
water that poureth from the eyes of whomsoever exhibiteth love for thee
and may bring it into the presence of God, thy Lord, and that God may
look upon him that hath performed that act of grace and that His
paradise may lament over him, and that He may single him out for all
His grace and all that He may fashion, for there is no drop of water
more loved by God than that which hath flowed out over thy tribulations
and hath appeared on the cheek by reason of thy sufferings ...
-- Baha'u'llah, Tablet of Visitation for Quddus (Provisional Translation by Denis MacEoin).
2)
11:11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell
upon them which saw them.
-- Bible: Revelation
"And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered
into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon
them that saw them." Three days and a half, as we before explained, is
twelve hundred and sixty years. Those two persons whose bodies were
lying spiritless are the teachings and the law that Muhammad
established and `Alí promoted, from which, however, the reality had
departed and only the form remained. The spirit came again into them
means that those foundations and teachings were again established. In
other words, the spirituality of the Religion of God had been changed
into materiality, and virtues into vices; the love of God had been
changed into hatred, enlightenment into darkness, divine qualities into
satanic ones, justice into tyranny, mercy into enmity, sincerity into
hypocrisy, guidance into error, and purity into sensuality. Then after
three days and a half, which by the terminology of the Holy Books is
twelve hundred and sixty years, these divine teachings, heavenly
virtues, perfections and spiritual bounties were again renewed by the
appearance of the Báb and the devotion of Jináb-i-Quddús.
-- `Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 54
11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
-- Bible: Revelation
"And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up
hither. And they ascended up to heaven," meaning that from the
invisible heaven they heard the voice of God, saying: You have
performed all that was proper and fitting in delivering the teachings
and glad tidings; you have given My message to the people and raised
the call of God, and have accomplished your duty. Now, like Christ, you
must sacrifice your life for the Well-Beloved, and be martyrs. And that
Sun of Reality, and that Moon of Guidance, both, like Christ, set on the horizon of the greatest martyrdom and ascended to the Kingdom of God.
-- `Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 55
3)
Verily, the three birds are the three holy souls. The one on the right
is His Holiness the great BÁB, the one on the left is His Honor
Khudoos,[1] the glorious soul, and the great bird in the middle is the
Greatest Name.[2] The light shining from the Supreme Horizon is the
Beauty of El-ABHA. These birds descended from an infinite height and
the nearer they came to earth the more their majesty and glory became
manifest. All nations were promised by a sure promise and were awaiting
with anxiety and longing the coming of the Promised One. The two birds
accompanying the great bird in the center signifies that the BÁB and
His Honor the Khudoos were both under the wings of the Greatest Name.
As those birds descended and their shadows extended vertically over the
expectants, as the sun approacheth the zenith at noontide, at this time
thou hast seen a majestic being in the form of man upon the back of the
huge bird in the center. This person in the human form is the "divine
station" mentioned in the Bible: "Let us make man in our image after
our likeness." And the divine lights were reflected from the reality of
the Greatest Name. Although this station is far from the minds and
understandings, yet its lights are apparent, its rays reflected and its
brilliancy manifested throughout the universe.
[1 Khudoos, [Quddus] literally, Holy; the title given to one of the great martyrs of Persia.]
[2 BAHA'O'LLAH.]
-- Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v3, p. 678
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