The Interpreter of His mind

Rooms of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the Báb

The Guardian beautifully describes the Beloved Master as "the Interpreter of His [Bahá’u’lláh] mind."  And before that "the Exemplar of His faith."  As Baha'is we can never hope to be like the Manifestations of God.  However, we can strive to follow in the examples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

"His own beloved Son, the apple of His eye, His vicegerent on earth, the Executive of His authority, the Pivot of His Covenant, the Shepherd of His flock, the Exemplar of His faith, the Image of His perfections, the Mystery of His Revelation, the Interpreter of His mind, the Architect of His World Order, the Ensign of His Most Great Peace, the Focal Point of His unerring guidance—in a word, the occupant of an office without peer or equal in the entire field of religious history—stood guard over it, alert, fearless and determined to enlarge its limits, blazon abroad its fame, champion its interests and consummate its purpose.

The stirring proclamation ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had penned, addressed to the rank and file of the followers of His Father, on the morrow of His ascension, as well as the prophecies He Himself had uttered in His Tablets, breathed a resolve and a confidence which the fruits garnered and the triumphs achieved in the course of a thirty-year ministry have abundantly justified." (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By)