It, [The Báb’s “commentary
on the súrih of Joseph, entitled the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá”] moreover, directs the
“people of the West” to “issue forth from your cities and aid the Cause of
God;” warns the peoples of the earth of the “terrible, the most grievous
vengeance of God;” threatens the whole Islamic world with “the Most Great Fire”
were they to turn aside from the newly-revealed Law; foreshadows the Author’s
martyrdom; eulogizes the high station ordained for the people of Bahá, the
“Companions of the crimson-colored ruby Ark;” prophesies the fading out and utter
obliteration of some of the greatest luminaries in the firmament of the Bábí
Dispensation; and even predicts “afflictive torment,” in both the “Day of Our
Return” and in “the world which is to come,” for the usurpers of the Imamate,
who “waged war against Ḥusayn (Imám Ḥusayn) in the Land of the Euphrates.”
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
