Blessed is the soul which, at the hour of its separation
from the body, is sanctified from the vain imaginings of the peoples of the
world. Such a soul liveth and moveth in accordance with the Will of its
Creator, and entereth the all-highest Paradise. The Maids of Heaven, inmates of
the loftiest mansions, will circle around it, and the Prophets of God and His
chosen ones will seek its companionship. With them that soul will freely
converse, and will recount unto them that which it hath been made to endure in
the path of God, the Lord of all worlds. If any man be told that which hath
been ordained for such a soul in the worlds of God, the Lord of the throne on
high and of earth below, his whole being will instantly blaze out in his great
longing to attain that most exalted, that sanctified and resplendent station.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
