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, and was styled
- the “Lord of Lords,”
- the “Most Great Name,”
- the “Ancient Beauty,”
- the “Pen of the Most High,”
- the “Hidden Name,”
- the “Preserved Treasure,”
- “He Whom God will make manifest,”
- the “Most Great Light,”
- the “All-Highest Horizon,”
- the “Most Great Ocean,”
- the “Supreme Heaven,”
- the “Pre-Existent Root,”
- the “Self-Subsistent,”
- the “Day-Star of the Universe,”
- the “Great Announcement,”
- the “Speaker on Sinai,”
- the “Sifter of Men,”
- the “Wronged One of the World,”
- the “Desire of the Nations,”
- the “Lord of the Covenant,”
- the “Tree beyond which there is no passing.”
- Shoghi Effendi ('God Passes By', chapter 6)