Tuesday, February 5, 2013
"From everlasting Thou hast been immeasurably exalted above all similitudes and comparisons ..."
"Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! My tongue, both the tongue of my body and the tongue of my heart, my limbs and members, every pulsating vein within me, every hair of my head, all proclaim that Thou art God, and that there is none other God beside Thee. From everlasting Thou hast been immeasurably exalted above all similitudes and comparisons, and sanctified from whatsoever pertaineth to the creation Thou hast created and fashioned. From eternity Thou hast been alone, with none to share the majesty of Thy singleness, and hast remained far above the changes and chances to which all Thy creatures are subjected." ...
-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, LXIX, pp. 112-113
Monday, February 4, 2013
"Whither is the Ancient Beauty gone, O most great House of God ...?"
..."Whither is the Ancient Beauty gone, O most great House of God, He through Whom God hath made thee the cynosure of an adoring world, and proclaimed thee to be the sign of His remembrance unto all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth? Oh! for the former days when thou, O House of God, wert made His footstool, the days when in ceaseless strains the melody of the All-Merciful poured forth from thee! What hath become of thy jewel whose glory hath irradiated all creation? Whither are gone the days in which He, the Ancient King, had made thee the throne of His glory, the days in which He had chosen thee alone to be the lamp of salvation between earth and heaven, and caused thee to diffuse, at dawn and at eventide, the sweet fragrance of the All-Glorious?"
-Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, LVII, pp. 111-112
Sunday, February 3, 2013
"Say: Tribulation is a horizon unto My Revelation."
"Say: Tribulation is a horizon unto My Revelation. The day star of grace shineth above it, and sheddeth a light which neither the clouds of men’s idle fancy nor the vain imaginations of the aggressor can obscure.
Follow thou the footsteps of thy Lord, and remember His servants even as He doth remember thee, undeterred by either the clamor of the heedless ones or the sword of the enemy…. Spread abroad the sweet savors of thy Lord, and hesitate not, though it be for less than a moment, in the service of His Cause. The day is approaching when the victory of thy Lord, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Bountiful, will be proclaimed."
-Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, XVII, pp. 42-43
Saturday, February 2, 2013
"He it is Who overshadowed Me with His protection ..."
"Methinks that I hear the Voice of the Holy Spirit calling from behind Me saying: Vary Thou Thy theme, and alter Thy tone, lest the heart of him who hath fixed his gaze upon Thy face be saddened. Say: I have through the grace of God and His might besought the help of no one in the past, neither will I seek the help of any one in the future. He it is Who aided Me, through the power of truth, during the days of My banishment in ‘Iráq. He it is Who overshadowed Me with His protection at a time when the kindreds of the earth were contending with Me. He it is Who enabled Me to depart out of the city, clothed with such majesty as none, except the denier and the malicious, can fail to admit.
Say: My army is My reliance on God; My people, the force of My confidence in Him. My love is My standard, and My companion the remembrance of God, the Sovereign Lord of all, the Most Powerful, the All-Glorious, the Unconditioned."
-Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, XV, p. 37-38
Friday, February 1, 2013
"The whole human race hath longed for this Day ..."
"Say: O men! This is a matchless Day. Matchless must, likewise, be the tongue that celebrateth the praise of the Desire of all nations, and matchless the deed that aspireth to be acceptable in His sight. The whole human race hath longed for this Day, that perchance it may fulfil that which well beseemeth its station, and is worthy of its destiny. Blessed is the man whom the affairs of the world have failed to deter from recognizing Him Who is the Lord of all things.
So blind hath become the human heart that neither the disruption of the city, nor the reduction of the mountain in dust, nor even the cleaving of the earth, can shake off its torpor. The allusions made in the Scriptures have been unfolded, and the signs recorded therein have been revealed, and the prophetic cry is continually being raised. And yet all, except such as God was pleased to guide, are bewildered in the drunkenness of their heedlessness!"
-Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, XVI, P. 39
Thursday, January 31, 2013
"This is the Most Great Testimony, by which the validity of every proof throughout the ages hath been established, would that ye might be assured thereof."
-Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 86
Moshiri
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
"... let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor."
"O MY FRIEND! Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy splendor. Rend asunder the veil of heedlessness, that from behind the clouds thou mayest emerge resplendent and array all things with the apparel of life."
-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, No. 73 Persian
Borg
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