“How can he who possesses such a treasure be called poor?”

... "And Sádiq asked him saying: “Exchangest thou this love for one thousand dinars?” He answered: “Nay, never will I exchange it, though the world and all that is therein be given me!” Then Sádiq remarked: “How can he who possesses such a treasure be called poor?”

This poverty and these riches, this abasement and glory, this dominion, power, and the like, upon which the eyes and hearts of these vain and foolish souls are set,—all these things fade into utter nothingness in that Court! Even as He hath said: “O men! Ye are but paupers in need of God; but God is the Rich, the Self-Sufficing.” 6 By ‘riches’ therefore is meant independence of all else but God, and by ‘poverty’ the lack of things that are of God."

 -Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, pp. 131-132


 6. Qur’án 35:15.



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