Passages from 'God Passes By': The city of Tihrán: - The “Holy Land,”; “the Mother of the world”;” the “Day-spring of Light”; the “Dawning-Place of the signs of the Lord,”; the “Source of the joy of all mankind.”

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The city of Tihrán: - The “Holy Land,”; “the Mother of the world”;” the “Day-spring of Light”; the “Dawning-Place of the signs of the Lord,”; the “Source of the joy of all mankind.”

Such were the circumstances in which the Sun of Truth arose in the city of Tihrán—a city which, by reason of so rare a privilege conferred upon it, had been glorified by the Báb as the “Holy Land,” and surnamed by Bahá’u’lláh “the Mother of the world,” the “Day-spring of Light,” the “Dawning-Place of the signs of the Lord,” the “Source of the joy of all mankind.”

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