On the 28th of the month of Safar 1327 A.H., the day of the
first Naw-Ruz (1909), which He celebrated after His release from His
confinement, 'Abdu'l-Bahá had the marble sarcophagus transported with great
labor to the vault prepared for it, and in the evening, by the light of a
single lamp, He laid within it, with His own hands -- in the presence of
believers from the East and from the West and in circumstances at once solemn
and moving -- the wooden casket containing the sacred remains of the Bab and
His companion.
When all was finished, and the earthly remains of the
Martyr-Prophet of Shiraz were, at long last, safely deposited for their
everlasting rest in the bosom of God's holy mountain, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Who had
cast aside His turban, removed His shoes and thrown off His cloak, bent low
over the still open sarcophagus, His silver hair waving about His head and His
face transfigured and luminous, rested His forehead on the border of the wooden
casket, and, sobbing aloud, wept with such a weeping that all those who were
present wept with Him. That night He could not sleep, so overwhelmed was He
with emotion.
"The most joyful tidings is this," He wrote later
in a Tablet announcing to His followers the news of this glorious victory,
"that the holy, the luminous body of the Báb ... after having for sixty
years been transferred from place to place, by reason of the ascendancy of the
enemy, and from fear of the malevolent, and having known neither rest nor
tranquillity has, through the mercy of the Abha Beauty, been ceremoniously
deposited, on the day of Naw-Ruz, within the sacred casket, in the exalted
Shrine on Mt. Carmel..."
(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By)
