Being overcome by the drunkenness of corrupt inclinations,
the people of the earth find themselves in a state of stupor. They are,
therefore, debarred from the wondrous signs of God, are prevented from
attaining the ultimate goal and are deprived of the liberal effusions of divine
grace.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] A symbolic bridge, impassable to sinners, over which the
believer must pass to heaven. In Islamic tradition it is finer than a hair,
sharper than the edge of a sword. Paradise lies beyond it, hell stretches
beneath.