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

August 25, 2026

The “stirring episodes” of those who were “intoxicated“ by quaffing “from the cup of Bahá’u’lláh’s presence” – Nabil being “an eye-witness

“So intoxicated were those who had quaffed from the cup of Bahá’u’lláh’s presence,” is yet another testimony from the pen of Nabíl, who was himself an eye-witness of most of these stirring episodes, “that in their eyes the palaces of kings appeared more ephemeral than a spider’s web.… The celebrations and festivities that were theirs were such as the kings of the earth had never dreamt of.” 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 8)