Bahai Faith; Women -- Religious aspects; Women in the Bahai Faith
By My Life! The names of handmaidens who are devoted to God are written
and set down by the Pen of the Most High in the Crimson Book. They excel
over men in the sight of God. How numerous are the heroes and knights in
the field who are bereft of the True One and have no share in His
recognition, but thou hast attained and received thy fill.
(From a Tablet - translated from the Persian) [4]
5: Verily the Pen of the Most High hath borne witness unto thy recognition
of...
Verily the Pen of the Most High hath borne witness unto thy recognition of
Him, thy love for Him and thy turning towards the Ancient Countenance at a
time when the world hath rejected Him, save those whom God, the Most High,
hath willed....
Well is it with thee for having adorned thyself with the ornament of the
love of God and for having been enabled to make mention of Him and utter
His praise. Divine grace, in its entirety, is in the mighty grasp of God,
exalted be He. He conferreth it upon whomsoever He willeth. How many a man
considered himself a celebrated divine and a repository of heavenly
mysteries, and yet when the slightest test visited him, he arose with such
opposition and denial as to cause the Concourse on high to moan and
lament. Through the bestowals of the Lord, however, and His infinite
favour, thou hast attained unto the hidden secret and the well-guarded
treasure. Preserve then, in the name of God, this lofty station and
conceal it from the eyes of betrayers. The glory shining from the horizon
of My Kingdom be upon thee and upon every handmaiden who hath attained the
splendours of My sublime Throne.
(From a Tablet - translated from the Persian and Arabic) [5]
6: We beseech God to aid all the leaves to attain the knowledge of the
Tree and...
We beseech God to aid all the leaves to attain the knowledge of the Tree
and deprive them not of the ocean of His generosity. In this day no regard
is paid to loftiness or lowliness, to poverty or wealth, to nobility and
lineage, to weakness or might. Whosoever recognizeth the incomparable
Beloved is the possessor of true wealth and occupieth a divine station.
Today, in the court of the True One, the queen of the world and her like
are not worth a mustard seed, because although she may speak in the name
of God, invoke the Lord of creation every day in the temple of her body,
and spend large sums of earthly wealth for the development of her nation,
she is deprived of recognition of the Sun of His Manifestation and is
barred from the True One in Whose remembrance she is engaged....
(From a Tablet - translated from the Persian and Arabic) [6]
7: Throughout the centuries and ages many a man hath waited expectant
for...
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