…the Báb’s holy dust. So precious is this dust that the very
earth surrounding the edifice enshrining this dust has been extolled by the
Center of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant, in one of His Tablets in which He named the
five doors belonging to the six chambers which He originally erected after five
of the believers associated with the construction of the Shrine, as being endowed
with such potency as to have inspired Him in bestowing these names, whilst the
tomb itself housing this dust He acclaimed as the spot round which the
Concourse on high circle in adoration.
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter dated
March 29, 1951; ‘Citadel of Faith’)
