To Him Muhammad, the Apostle of God, had alluded in His Book as
- the “Great Announcement,”
- and declared His Day to be the Day whereon “God” will “come down” “overshadowed with clouds,”
- the Day whereon “thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank,” and “The Spirit shall arise and the angels shall be ranged in order.”
- His advent He, in that Book, in a súrih said to have been termed by Him “the heart of the Qur’án,” had foreshadowed as that of the “third” Messenger, sent down to “strengthen” the two who preceded Him.
- To His Day He, in the pages of that same Book, had paid a glowing tribute, glorifying it as
- the “Great Day,”
- the “Last Day,”
- the “Day of God,”
- the “Day of Judgment,”
- the “Day of Reckoning,”
- the “Day of Mutual Deceit,”
- the “Day of Severing,”
- the “Day of Sighing,”
- the “Day of Meeting,”
- the Day “when the Decree shall be accomplished,”
- the Day whereon the second “Trumpet blast” will be sounded,
- the “Day when mankind shall stand before the Lord of the world,” and “all shall come to Him in humble guise,”
- the Day when “thou shalt see the mountains, which thou thinkest so firm, pass away with the passing of a cloud,”
- the Day “wherein account shall be taken,”
- “the approaching Day, when men’s hearts shall rise up, choking them, into their throats,”
- the Day when “all that are in the heavens and all that are on the earth shall be terror-stricken, save him whom God pleaseth to deliver,”
- the Day whereon “every suckling woman shall forsake her sucking babe, and every woman that hath a burden in her womb shall cast her burden,”
- the Day “when the earth shall shine with the light of her Lord, and the Book shall be set, and the Prophets shall be brought up, and the witnesses; and judgment shall be given between them with equity; and none shall be wronged.”
(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, chapter 6)