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

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)