Quddús, immortalized by Him as Ismu’lláhi’l-Ákhir
(the Last Name of God); on whom Bahá’u’lláh’s Tablet of Kullu’t-Tá’am later
conferred the sublime appellation of Nuqtiy-i-Ukhrá (the Last Point);
whom He elevated, in another Tablet, to a rank second to none except that of
the Herald of His Revelation; whom He identifies, in still another Tablet, with
one of the “Messengers charged with imposture” mentioned in the Qur’án; whom
the Persian Bayán extolled as that fellow-pilgrim round whom mirrors to the
number of eight Vahíds revolve; on whose “detachment and the sincerity of whose
devotion to God’s will God prideth Himself amidst the Concourse on high;” whom
‘Abdu’l-Bahá designated as the “Moon of Guidance;” and whose appearance the
Revelation of St. John the Divine anticipated as one of the two “Witnesses”
into whom, ere the “second woe is past,” the “spirit of life from God” must
enter—such a man had, in the full bloom of his youth, suffered, in the
Sabzih-Maydán of Barfurúsh, a death which even Jesus Christ, as attested
by Bahá’u’lláh, had not faced in the hour of His greatest
agony. (Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)
