The True Lover

O SON OF JUSTICE!

Whither can a lover go but to the land of his beloved? and what seeker findeth rest away from his heart's desire? To the true lover reunion is life, and separation is death. His breast is void of patience and his heart hath no peace. A myriad lives he would forsake to hasten to the abode of his beloved.

Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words #4

Be not content with the ease of a passing day

O OFFSPRING OF DUST!

Be not content with the ease of a passing day, and deprive not thyself of everlasting rest. Barter not the garden of eternal delight for the dust-heap of a mortal world. Up from thy prison ascend unto the glorious meads above, and from thy mortal cage wing thy flight unto the paradise of the Placeless.

Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words #39

Being called to a higher standard...

O CHILDREN OF ADAM!
Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. Strive that your deeds may be cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and find favor at the court of glory; for ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the Adored One, accept naught but absolute virtue and deeds of stainless purity. This is the daystar of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the horizon of the divine will. Blessed are they that turn thereunto.

Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words #69

For everything there is a sign.

O SON OF MAN!

For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.

Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words #48

Photo: Mírzá Muhammad-Qulí, a half-brother of Bahá'u'lláh (his mother was Turkamáníyyih) accompanied Him into exile and imprisonment and remained faithful all the days of his life. After leaving the Most Great Prison he acquired a farm on the south-eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee where he died in 1910. In October 1985 his remains were reinterred in a new Bahá'í Cemetary on the slope of Tell Susita. See "The Bahá'í World", Vol. 19, p.56. See also pp.14-15 of "King of Glory."

Life befitting a companion of His throne

O COMPANION OF MY THRONE!
Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed. Live then the days of thy life, that are less than a fleeting moment, with thy mind stainless, thy heart unsullied, thy thoughts pure, and thy nature sanctified, so that, free and content, thou mayest put away this mortal frame, and repair unto the mystic paradise and abide in the eternal kingdom for evermore.

Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words, 44

The First Call of the Beloved

O YE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MINDS TO KNOW AND EARS TO HEAR!

The first call of the Beloved is this: O mystic nightingale! Abide not but in the rose-garden of the spirit. O messenger of the Solomon of love! Seek thou no shelter except in the Sheba of the well-beloved, and O immortal phoenix! dwell not save on the mount of faithfulness. Therein is thy habitation, if on the wings of thy soul thou soarest to the realm of the infinite and seekest to attain thy goal.

Baha'u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words　#1

The First Counsel to Us All

O SON OF SPIRIT!

My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.

Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words #1

Our True Nature

O SON OF SPIRIT!

I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting.

Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words #13