Morning
Behold how contrary are the ways of the Manifestations of God, as ordained by the King of creation, to the ways and desires of men! As thou comest to comprehend the essence of these divine mysteries, thou wilt grasp the purpose of God, the divine Charmer, the Best-Beloved. Thou wilt regard the words and the deeds of that almighty Sovereign as one and the same; in such wise that whatsoever thou dost behold in His deeds, the same wilt thou find in His sayings, and whatsoever thou dost read in His sayings, that wilt thou recognize in His deeds. Thus it is that outwardly such deeds and words are the fire of vengeance unto the wicked, and inwardly the waters of mercy unto the righteous. Were the eye of the heart to open, it would surely perceive that the words revealed from the heaven of the will of God are at one with, and the same as, the deeds that have emanated from the Kingdom of divine power.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqán’)
Evening
The wayfarer, after traversing the high planes of this
supernal journey, entereth into the CITY OF CONTENTMENT. In this valley he
feeleth the breezes of divine contentment blowing from the plane of the spirit.
He burneth away the veils of want, and with inward and outward eye perceiveth
within and without all things the day of “God will satisfy everyone out of His
abundance.” [Qur’an 4:130] From sorrow he turneth to bliss, and from grief to
joy, and from anguish and dejection to delight and rapture.
Although, to outward seeming, the wayfarers in this valley may dwell upon the dust, yet inwardly they are throned in the heights of mystic meaning; they partake of the eternal bounties of heaven and drink of the delicate wines of the spirit.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Seven Valleys’, revised translation by the Baha’i World Center included in ‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
