March 25, 2021

Upon arrival in Baghdád Bahá’u’lláh found most “of the believers…faint and dispirited, nay utterly lost and dead”

Upon Our arrival in ‘Iráq We found the Cause of God sunk in deep apathy and the breeze of divine revelation stilled. Most of the believers were faint and dispirited, nay utterly lost and dead. Hence there was a second blast on the Trumpet, whereupon the Tongue of Grandeur uttered these blessed words: ‘We have sounded the Trumpet for the second time.’ Thus the whole world was quickened through the vitalizing breaths of divine revelation and inspiration. 

- Bahá’u’llah (‘Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh revealed after the Kitáb-Aqdas)