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

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."

Some of the Highest and Most Laudable of All Acts

The virtues and attributes pertaining unto God are all evident and manifest, and have been mentioned and described in all the heavenly Books. Among them are trustworthiness, truthfulness, purity of heart while communing with God, forbearance, resignation to whatever the Almighty hath decreed, contentment with the things His Will hath provided, patience, nay, thankfulness in the midst of tribulation, and complete reliance, in all circumstances, upon Him. These rank, according to the estimate of God, among the highest and most laudable of all acts. All other acts are, and will ever remain, secondary and subordinate unto them....

Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 290