“In the country of Fárs, there is a Mosque in the center of
which rises a structure similar to the Ka’bih, (Masjid-i-Jum’ih). It was built
only as a sign indicating the Manifestation of the Will of God through the
erection of the house in that land. [Allusion to the new Mecca, i.e., the house
of the Báb in Shíráz.] Blessed be he who worships God in that land; truly we,
too, worshipped God there, and prayed for him who had erected that building.”
–
The Báb (from 'Persian Bayan', translated to French by A. L. M. Nicolas: ‘Le Bayán
Persan,” vol. 2, p. 151.’; Footnotes included by Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, Chapter 1)
