January 30
O Eyes of this Temple!
Look not upon the heavens and that which they contain, nor upon the
earth and them that dwell thereon, for We have created you to behold Our own
Beauty: See it now before you! Withhold not your gaze therefrom, and deprive
not yourselves of the Beauty of your Lord, the All-Glorious, the
Best-Beloved. Erelong shall We bring
into being through you keen and penetrating eyes that will contemplate the manifold signs of their
Creator and turn away from all that is perceived by the people of the
world. Through you shall We bestow the
power of vision upon whomsoever We desire, and lay hold upon those who have
deprived themselves of this gracious bounty.
These, verily, have drunk from the cup of delusion, though they perceive
it not. (Baha’u’llah, Súriy-i-Haykal, ‘The Summons of the Lord of
Hosts’)
