Mulla Husayn, the first Letter of the Living, surnamed the
Babu'l-Báb (the Gate of the Gate); designated as the "Primal Mirror;"
on whom eulogies, prayers and visiting Tablets of a number equivalent to thrice
the volume of the Qur'án had been lavished by the pen of the Bab; referred to
in these eulogies as "beloved of My Heart;" the dust of whose grave,
that same Pen had declared, was so potent as to cheer the sorrowful and heal
the sick; whom "the creatures, raised in the beginning and in the
end" of the Bábí Dispensation, envy, and will continue to envy till the
"Day of Judgment;" whom the Kitáb-i-Íqán acclaimed as the one but for
whom "God would not have been established upon the seat of His mercy, nor
ascended the throne of eternal glory;" to whom Siyyid Kazim had paid such
tribute that his disciples suspected that the recipient of such praise might
well be the promised One Himself -- such a one had likewise, in the prime of
his manhood, died a martyr's death at Tabarsi.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
