O My friend! Listen with heart and soul to the songs of the
spirit, and treasure them as thine own eyes; for heavenly wisdoms, even as
vernal showers, will not rain forever upon the earth of men’s hearts, and
though the grace of the All-Bounteous One is never ceasing and never stilled,
yet to every time and era a portion is allotted and a bounty assigned, which is
vouchsafed in a given measure. “And no one thing is there, but with Us are its
storehouses; and We send it not down but in settled measure.”[Qur'án 15:21]
Indeed, the clouds of the Loved One’s mercy rain only on the garden of the
spirit, and bestow this bounty only in the season of spring. Other seasons have
no share in this supernal grace, and barren lands hold no portion of this
bounteous favour. - Baha’u’llah (The Seven Valleys, revised translation by the
Baha’i World Center included in ‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
