Epilogue – Glimmerings

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The Day of Resurrection: Coming of Twin Manifestations

For the Shí’a, the Day of Resurrection is to be ushered in by the return of the twelfth Imám, the Qá’im

followed by the return of Imám Husayn and his hosts. For the Sunní, the Day of Resurrection will see the coming of the Mahdí

[One who is guided], and the return of Jesus Christ. Shaykh Ahmad and Siyyid Kázim had also taught that there would be two Manifestations. In fact, Siyyid Kázim told his disciples:

For soon after the first trumpet-blast which is to smite the earth with extermination and death, there will be sounded again yet, another call, at which all things will be quickened and revived. … Verily I say, after the Qá’im, the Qayyúm

[the Self-Subsisting] will be made manifest. For when the star of the Former has set, the sun of the beauty of Husayn will rise and illuminate the whole world.

The First Trumpet Blast – the Qá’im

On the eve of 22 May 1844, the First Trumpet Blast was sounded – the Qá’im / the Mahdí arose. He claimed the title of “the Báb,” which means the Gate. He was the gate to a new Revelation. He was the gate that closed the cycle of prophecy and opened the cycle of fulfillment for all religions. But His main role was as the gate to the Qayyúm, the One Who was to arise after Him; the One greater than Himself.

Eighteen souls were the first ones to be awakened and recreated by the First Trumpet Blast. They will now spread the Call of this Trumpet Blast throughout the land – a blast through which the mountains of old beliefs will crumble; the spiritually dead will be awakened from the graves of ignorance and selfish desire; and all things will be recreated. At the same time, the Day of Judgement had begun, when each soul who hears the Call of the Trumpet Blast will choose to either be recreated or remain imprisoned, whether by old beliefs or its own ego.

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End of “DB 3: The First Light of the Dawn”