“I sat spellbound by His utterance, oblivious of time and of those
who awaited me,” he [Mulla Husayn] himself has testified, after describing the
nature of the questions he had put to his Host and the conclusive replies he
had received from Him, replies which had established beyond the shadow of a
doubt the validity of His claim to be the promised Qá’im. “Suddenly the call of
the Mu’adhdhin, summoning the faithful to their morning prayer, awakened
me from the state of ecstasy into which I seemed to have fallen. All the
delights, all the ineffable glories, which the Almighty has recounted in His
Book as the priceless possessions of the people of Paradise—these I seemed to
be experiencing that night. Methinks I was in a place of which it could be
truly said: ‘Therein no toil shall reach us, and therein no weariness shall
touch us;’ ‘no vain discourse shall they hear therein, nor any falsehood, but
only the cry, “Peace! Peace!”’; ‘their cry therein shall be, “Glory to Thee, O
God!” and their salutation therein, “Peace!”, and the close of their cry,
“Praise be to God, Lord of all creatures!”’ Sleep had departed from me that
night. I was enthralled by the music of that voice which rose and fell as He
chanted; now swelling forth as He revealed verses of the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá, again
acquiring ethereal, subtle harmonies as He uttered the prayers He was
revealing. At the end of each invocation, He would repeat this verse: ‘Far from
the glory of thy Lord, the All-Glorious, be that which His creatures affirm of
Him! And peace be upon His Messengers! And praise be to God, the Lord of all
beings!’”
(Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)
