On every day of the twenty-two days of that sojourn He
revealed a Tablet which Sulayman of Nur chanted in the presence of the believers.
Upon each one of the Bábís He bestowed a new name as his Bábí title. Henceforth
each would normally be addressed by his fellows only by that distinctive title
of honor. He designated Himself as Bahá, the Glorious One, nor apparently was
this title taken amiss by critical Babis, a tribute to His palpable excellence.
Upon the last Letter of the Living, Muhammad-'Ali of Barfurush, He conferred
the appellation of Quddus, the Most Holy One. And upon Fatimih of Qazvin he
bestowed the new title of Tahirih, the Pure One. However, the identity of Him
who had conferred the new names upon them was not made, although each surely
conjectured according to his degree of perception. For each companion a special
Tablet was later revealed by the Báb, each addressed by the new name of great
symbolic and personal meaning.
- David Ruhe (‘Robe of Light’, vol. 1)
