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Baha'u'llah's House in
Takur, Mazindaran |
In the name He bore He combined those of the Imám Husayn,
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. He was formally designated Bahá’u’lláh, an
appellation specifically recorded in the Persian Bayán, signifying at once the
glory, the light and the splendor of God…
(Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)
