The Baha'is of Mandalay, Burma, with the marble casket
offered by them for the remains of the Báb, April 22, 1898.
On the morning of March 21st 1909, the day of Naw-Ruz,
'Abdu'l-Bahá had the marble sarcophagus -- gift of the Bahá'ís of Rangoon --
carried up the mountain and placed in the vault. That evening He laid in the
sarcophagus the wooden casket which contained the inseparable remains of the
Báb and the disciple who had died with Him. A solitary lamp lit the scene, so
poignant and yet so exultant. The Báb had been cruelly maligned, cruelly
wronged, cruelly put to death. His torn and smashed body had had no home for
many long years. Now the heart of Carmel was receiving it forevermore. Of this
event Zechariah had written: 'Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold
the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he
shall build the temple of the Lord'. How mysteriously and indubitably had his
prophecy come true. 'The Branch' had built 'the temple of the Lord', had raised
His 'tabernacle' on His Mountain -- on Carmel -- the Mountain of God.
- Balyuzi (‘Abdu'l-Baha - The Centre of the Covenant’)
