Morning
Among the infidels are those who have repudiated His Self and risen up against His Cause, and who claim that these divine verses are contrived. Such also were the objections of the deniers of old, who now implore deliverance from the Fire. Say: Woe betide you for the idle words that proceed from your mouths! If these verses be indeed contrived, then by what proof have ye believed in God? Produce it, if ye be men of understanding! Whensoever We revealed Our clear verses unto such men, they rejected them, and whensoever they beheld that which the combined forces of the earth are powerless to produce, they pronounced it sorcery.
- Baha'u'llah (Suriy-i-Haykal, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)
Evening
God, the Most High, hath placed these signs [1] in men so
that veiled minds might not deny the mysteries of the life beyond, nor belittle
that which hath been promised them. For some hold fast to reason and deny
whatever reason comprehendeth not, and yet feeble minds can never grasp the
reality of the stages that we have related: The universal divine Intellect
alone can comprehend them.
How can feeble reason embrace the Qur’án
Or the spider snare a phoenix in its web? [2]
All these states are to be found and witnessed in the Valley of Wonderment, wherein the wayfarer at every moment seeketh for more and is not wearied. Thus the Lord of the first and the last, [3] in setting forth the grades of contemplation and expressing bewilderment, hath said: “Increase my wonder and amazement at Thee, O God!” [4]
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Seven Valleys’, revised translation by the Baha’i World Center included in ‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
[1] The preceding paragraph Baha’u’llah refers to the world
of dreams
[2] Sanáí (Persian poet)
[3] The Prophet Muhammad
[4] From a Hadith
