shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a
trumpet." (1) Rendered into the Persian tongue, (2) the
purport of these words is as follows: When the
oppression and afflictions that are to befall mankind
will have come to pass, then shall the sun
be withheld from shining, the moon from giving
light, the stars of heaven shall fall upon the earth,
and the pillars of the earth shall quake. At that
time, the signs of the Son of man shall appear in
heaven, that is, the promised Beauty and Substance
of life shall, when these signs have appeared, step
forth out of the realm of the invisible into the visible
world. And He saith: at that time, all the
peoples and kindreds that dwell on earth shall bewail
and lament, and they shall see that divine
Beauty coming from heaven, riding upon the
clouds with power, grandeur, and magnificence,
sending His angels with a great sound of a trumpet.
Similarly, in the three other Gospels, according
to Luke, Mark, and John, the same statements
1. Matthew 24:29-31.
2. The passage is quoted by Bahá'u'lláh in Arabic and interpreted in Persian.