The Sadratu’l-Muntahá: Literally “the furthermost
Lote-Tree”, translated by Shoghi Effendi as “the Tree beyond which there is no
passing”. This is used as a symbol in Islám, for example in the accounts of
Muhammad’s Night Journey, to mark the point in the heavens beyond which neither
men nor angels can pass in their approach to God, and thus to delimit the
bounds of divine knowledge as revealed to mankind. Hence it is often used in
the Bahá’í Writings to designate the Manifestation of God Himself. - The
Universal House of Justice (The ‘Notes’ section of the Kitab-i-Aqdas)
