Morning
O thou who art mentioned in these Tablets! Know thou that he
who embarketh upon this journey [the city of the Garden of Wonderment] will
marvel at the signs of the power of God and the wondrous evidences of His
handiwork. Bewilderment will seize him from every side, even as hath been
attested by that Essence of immortality from the Concourse on high: “Increase
My wonder and amazement at Thee, O God!” [From a Hadíth] Well hath it been
said:
I knew not what amazement was
Until I made Thy
love my cause.
O how amazing would it be
If I were not
amazed by Thee! [From the Díván of Ibn-i-Fárid]
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’)
Evening
Were I to recount unto thine eminence the dire adversities that have befallen Me, thou wouldst be so grieved as to forsake the mention of all things and to forget thyself and all that the Lord hath created on earth. But as this is not Our wish, I have concealed the revelation of the divine decree in the heart of Bahá and veiled it from the eyes of all that move in the realm of creation, that it may lay hid within the tabernacle of the Unseen until such time as God will have revealed its secret. “Naught in the heavens or on the earth can escape His knowledge, and He, verily, perceiveth all things.” [cf. Qur’án 10:61; 34:3]
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of Divine Mysteries’)
