Sequential excerpts from the book ‘God Passes By’, written in 1944 by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith

10/29/24

References to Bahá’u’lláh’s Dispensation from Muhammad, the Apostle of God, Imám ‘Ali, and Imám Husayn

The plenitude of His glory the Apostle of God had, moreover, as attested by Bahá’u’lláh Himself, compared to the “full moon on its fourteenth night.” His station the Imám ‘Alí, the Commander of the Faithful, had, according to the same testimony, identified with “Him Who conversed with Moses from the Burning Bush on Sinai.” To the transcendent character of His mission the Imám Ḥusayn had, again according to Bahá’u’lláh, borne witness as a “Revelation whose Revealer will be He Who revealed” the Apostle of God Himself. 

- Shoghi Effendi  ('God Passes By', chapter 6)

10/24/24

References to Bahá’u’lláh and His Day in the Qur'an

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)

10/18/24

Christian references to Bahá’u’lláh’s Day

To His Day Jesus Christ Himself had referred as “the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory.” To the hour of His advent St. Paul had alluded as the hour of the “last trump,” the “trump of God,” whilst St. Peter had spoken of it as the “Day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.” His Day he, furthermore, had described as “the times of refreshing,” “the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy Prophets since the world began.” 

- Shoghi Effendi  ('God Passes By', chapter 6)

10/13/24

References to Bahá’u’lláh from Saint John

To Him the Author of the Apocalypse had alluded as the “Glory of God,” as “Alpha and Omega,” “the Beginning and the End,” “the First and the Last.” Identifying His Revelation with the “third woe,” he, moreover, had extolled His Law as “a new heaven and a new earth,” as the “Tabernacle of God,” as the “Holy City,” as the “New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” 

- Shoghi Effendi  ('God Passes By', chapter 6)

10/8/24

References to Bahá’u’lláh from Jesus

To Him [Bahá’u’lláh] Jesus Christ had referred as the “Prince of this world,” as the “Comforter” Who will “reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment,” as the “Spirit of Truth” Who “will guide you into all truth,” Who “shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak,” as the “Lord of the Vineyard,” and as the “Son of Man” Who “shall come in the glory of His Father” “in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory,” with “all the holy angels” about Him, and “all nations” gathered before His throne. 

- Shoghi Effendi  ('God Passes By', chapter 6)

10/3/24

References to Bahá’u’lláh in Hindus’ Bhagavad-Gita

To Him [Bahá’u’lláh] the Bhagavad-Gita of the Hindus had referred as the “Most Great Spirit,” the “Tenth Avatar,” the “Immaculate Manifestation of Krishna.” 

- Shoghi Effendi  ('God Passes By', chapter 6)