Though distant in body, these heroic souls are engaged in
daily communion with their Beloved, partake of the bounty of His utterance, and
share the supreme privilege of His companionship. Otherwise how could Shaykh
Ahmad and Siyyid Kazim have known of the Bab? How could they have perceived the
significance of the secret which lay hidden in Him? How could the Báb Himself,
how could Quddus, His beloved disciple, have written in such terms, had not the
mystic bond of the spirit linked their souls together? Did not the Báb, in the
earliest days of His Mission, allude, in the opening passages of the
Qayyúmu'l-Asmá', His commentary on the Surih of Joseph, to the glory and
significance of the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh? Was it not His purpose, by
dwelling upon the ingratitude and malice which characterised the treatment of
Joseph by his brethren, to predict what Bahá'u'lláh was destined to suffer at
the hands of His brother and kindred? Was not Quddus, although besieged within
the fort of Shaykh Tabarsi by the battalions and fire of a relentless enemy,
engaged, both in the daytime and in the night-season, in the completion of his
eulogy of Bahá'u'lláh -- that immortal commentary on the Sad of Samad which had
already assumed the dimensions of five hundred thousand verses? Every verse of
the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá', every word of the aforementioned commentary of Quddus,
will, if dispassionately examined, bear eloquent testimony to this truth.
(Shoghi
Effendi, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)