In the name He [Baha’u’llah] bore He combined those of the
Imám Ḥusayn, the most illustrious of the successors of the Apostle of God—the
brightest “star” shining in the “crown” mentioned in the Revelation of St.
John—and of the Imám ‘Alí, the Commander of the Faithful, the second of the two
“witnesses” extolled in that same Book.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
