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Tomb on Mount Carmel
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Pages 18-20
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Tomb on Mount Carmel
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After the Báb's martyrdom, His remains, with those of His
devoted companion, were thrown on the edge of the moat outside
the city wall. On the second night they were rescued at
midnight by some of the Bábís, and after being concealed for
years in secret depositories in Persia, were ultimately brought,
with great danger and difficulty, to the Holy Land. There they
are now interred in a tomb beautifully situated on the slope of
Mount Carmel, not far from the Cave of Elijah, and only a
few miles from the spot where Bahá'u'lláh spent His last years
and where His remains now lie. Among the thousands of
pilgrims from all parts of the world who come to pay homage
at the Holy Tomb of Bahá'u'lláh, none omit to offer a prayer
also at the shrine of His devoted lover and forerunner, the Báb.
Writings of Báb
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The Writings of the Báb were voluminous, and the rapidity
with which, without study or premeditation, He composed
elaborate commentaries, profound expositions or eloquent
prayers was regarded as one of the proofs of His divine inspiration.
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The purport of His various Writings has been summarized
as follows: --
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Some of these [the Báb's Writings] were commentaries
on, and interpretations of the verses of the Kur'an;
some were prayers, homilies, and hints of [the true significance
of certain] passages; other were exhortations,
admonitions, dissertations on the different branches of the
doctrine of the Divine Unity ... encouragements to
amendment of character, severance from worldly states,
and dependence on the inspirations of God. But the essence
and purport of his compositions were the praises
and descriptions of that Reality soon to appear which was
his only object and aim, his darling, and his desire. For
he regarded his own appearance as that of a harbinger of
good tidings, and considered his own real nature merely
as a means for the manifestation of the greater perfections
of that One. And indeed he ceased not from celebrating
Him by night or day for a single instant, but used to
signify to all his followers that they should expect His
arising: in such wise that he declares in his writings, "I
am a letter out of that most might book and a dew-drop
from that limitless ocean, and, when He shall appear,
my true nature, my mysteries, riddles, and intimations
will become evident, and the embryo of this religion
shall develop through the grades of its being and ascent,
attain to the station of `the most comely of forms,' and
become adorned with the robe of `blessed be God, the
Best of Creators.' ... and so inflamed was he with His flame
that commemoration of Him was the bright candle of
his dark nights in the fortress of Mákú, and remembrance
of Him was the best of companions in the straits
of the prison of Chihrik. Thereby he obtained spiritual
enlargements; with His wine was he inebriated; and at
remembrance of Him did he rejoice. -- A Traveller's
Narrative (Episode of the Báb), pp. 54-56.
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