In this Day the Concourse on high beholdeth you in your evil doings and shunneth your company, and yet ye perceive it not. They ask of one another: "What words do these fools utter, and in what valley are they wont to graze? Do they deny that whereunto their very souls testify, and shut their eyes to that which they plainly behold?" I swear by God, O people! They that inhabit the Cities of the Names of God are bewildered at your actions, while ye roam, aimless and unconscious, in a parched and barren land.
Comments:
From Paragraph 1.9 we understand that the recipients of this paragraph are the “people of the Bayan” – those Babis who didn’t acknowledge Baha’u’llah as the Promised One of the Bab after His public proclamation.
Some of the insights that one could gain from this paragraph are:
Comments:
From Paragraph 1.9 we understand that the recipients of this paragraph are the “people of the Bayan” – those Babis who didn’t acknowledge Baha’u’llah as the Promised One of the Bab after His public proclamation.
Some of the insights that one could gain from this paragraph are:
• The spiritual fact that “the Concourse on high” are aware of all the “evil doings” done by people against the Cause of God and that They would “shun” the company of such people.
• We may ask what is (or Who are) the “Concourse on high” and what is It’s significance? One reference to the meaning of the “Concourse on High” is found in the book called the Covenant of Baha’u’llah by Adib Taherzadeh. It is defined as “the gathering of the Prophets and God's holy and chosen souls.” This must be a very powerful Gathering in the next world!
• Another fascinating point in this paragraph is Baha’u’llah’s reference to those who “inhabit the Cities of the Names of God.” What are those “Cities” in the next world and who lives in them? Just like Baha’i months, it looks like those Cities are named after “the Names of God”! Fascinating!
