FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126  
127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   >>  
for ... (182) You have offered up thanks to the Lord for appointing the Centre of His Cause and the Guardian of His Covenant, and have voiced your gratitude and expressed your spiritual sentiments, for this favour and grace. It is true, in all the world there could be no mercy greater than this, no bounty more abundant. 'Abdu'l-Baha, may our lives be sacrificed for His sacred dust, has bestowed on us a wondrous gift, a most great favour. He has clearly shown us the highway of guidance and explicitly designated the Centre toward whom all the people of Baha must turn, and with His own bounteous pen has written down for us what will ensure prosperity and progress, and salvation and bliss, for evermore. Now is the time to arise and serve with all our powers, that we may grow happier day by day, and fill our hearts with warmth and joy. 57: The Ancient Beauty, the Most Great Name, ... (183) The Ancient Beauty, the Most Great Name, has, through the splendours of His grace in this most glorious of all ages, made this world of dust to radiate light. The loving counsels of 'Abdu'l-Baha have turned the beloved of the Lord into signs and tokens of humility and lowliness. He has taught them selflessness, and freedom from material things, and detachment from the world, and has enabled them to understand the verities of Heaven. In that supernal realm we are all but motes; in the court of the Lord God's majesty we are but helpless shadows. He is the Shelter for all; He is the Protector of all; He is the Helper of all; He is the Preserver of all. Whensoever we look upon ourselves, we, one and all, despair; but He, with all His grace, His bestowals, His bounties, is the close Companion of each one. It is certain that tests and trials are inseparable from this life and a vital requirement thereof, especially for the human race and above all for those who claim to have faith and love. Only through trials can the genuine be known from the worthless, and purity from pollution, and the real from the false. The meaning of the sacred verse: 'Do men think when they say 'We believe' they shall be let alone and not be put to proof?'(184) prevails at all times and is applicable at every breath, and fire will only bring out the brightness of the gold. So it is my hope that with lowliness and a contrite heart, with supplications and prayers, with good intentions and faithfulness, with purity of heart and adherence to the t
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126  
127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   >>  



Top keywords:
trials
 

Centre

 

sacred

 
Beauty
 
Ancient
 
lowliness
 

purity

 

favour

 

requirement

 

thereof


inseparable
 
despair
 

shadows

 

Shelter

 

Protector

 

Helper

 

helpless

 

majesty

 

Preserver

 

Whensoever


Companion
 

bounties

 

bestowals

 
brightness
 

breath

 
prevails
 
applicable
 

intentions

 

faithfulness

 

adherence


prayers

 

supplications

 
contrite
 
pollution
 

worthless

 
meaning
 

genuine

 

radiate

 

highway

 

wondrous


sacrificed

 

bestowed

 
guidance
 

explicitly

 
bounteous
 
written
 

designated

 

people

 
abundant
 

Guardian