The Visitation Tablet for the Tombs of the Báb and
Bahá'u'lláh is in three parts: first part was revealed by Bahá'u'lláh to a
believer who could not make the Pilgrimage. A few days after the Ascension of
Bahá'u'lláh The Master asked Nabil to arrange selections to be chanted in the
Tomb of Bahá'u'lláh. Of the Tablet of Visitation the first part is not
addressed to God but to Bahá'u'lláh Himself. The second part is a prayer
revealed by Bahá'u'lláh addressing God and the remaining paragraphs refer again
to Bahá'u'lláh and not to God directly. It has been used ever since as the
Visitation Tablet.
- Shoghi Effendi (Comments by Shoghi Effendi, recorded by Mary Maxwell
[Ruhiyyih Khanum] during pilgrimage with May Maxwell, 1937; “Haifa Notes”)
