Bahá'í Reference Library - The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh

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My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-3.html">“2: O SON OF SPIRIT! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice;…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-4.html">“3: O SON OF MAN! Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-5.html">“4: O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-6.html">“5: O SON OF BEING! Love Me, that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-7.html">“6: O SON OF BEING! Thy Paradise is My love; thy heavenly home, reunion…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-8.html">“7: O SON OF MAN! If thou lovest Me, turn away from thyself; and if…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-9.html">“8: O SON OF SPIRIT! There is no peace for thee save by renouncing…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-10.html">“9: O SON OF BEING! My love is My stronghold; he that entereth therein…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-11.html">“10: O SON OF UTTERANCE! Thou art My stronghold; enter therein that…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-12.html">“11: O SON OF BEING! Thou art My lamp and My light is in thee….”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-13.html">“12: O SON OF BEING! With the hands of power I made thee and with…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-14.html">“13: O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-15.html">“14: O SON OF MAN! Thou art My dominion and My dominion perisheth…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-16.html">“15: O SON OF UTTERANCE! Turn thy face unto Mine and renounce all save…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-17.html">“16: O SON OF LIGHT! Forget all save Me and commune with My spirit….”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-18.html">“17: O SON OF MAN! Be thou content with Me and seek no other…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-19.html">“18: O SON OF SPIRIT! Ask not of Me that which We desire not for thee,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-20.html">“19: O SON OF THE WONDROUS VISION! I have breathed within thee a breath of My own…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-21.html">“20: O SON OF SPIRIT! My claim on thee is great, it cannot be forgotten….”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-22.html">“21: O SON OF MAN! Upon the tree of effulgent glory I have hung for…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-23.html">“22: O SON OF SPIRIT! Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-24.html">“23: O SON OF THE SUPREME! To the eternal I call thee, yet thou dost seek that…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-25.html">“24: O SON OF MAN! Transgress not thy limits, nor claim that which…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-26.html">“25: O SON OF SPIRIT! Vaunt not thyself over the poor, for I lead him on…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-27.html">“26: O SON OF BEING! How couldst thou forget thine own faults and…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-28.html">“27: O SON OF MAN! Breathe not the sins of others so long as thou art…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-29.html">“28: O SON OF SPIRIT! Know thou of a truth: He that biddeth men be just…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-30.html">“29: O SON OF BEING! Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-31.html">“30: O SON OF MAN! Deny not My servant should he ask anything from…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-32.html">“31: O SON OF BEING! Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-33.html">“32: O SON OF THE SUPREME! I have made death a messenger of joy to thee….”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-34.html">“33: O SON OF SPIRIT! With the joyful tidings of light I hail thee: rejoice!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-35.html">“34: O SON OF SPIRIT! The spirit of holiness beareth unto thee the joyful…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-36.html">“35: O SON OF MAN! Sorrow not save that thou art far from Us. Rejoice…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-37.html">“36: O SON OF MAN! Rejoice in the gladness of thine heart, that thou…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-38.html">“37: O SON OF MAN! Divest not thyself of My beauteous robe, and forfeit…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-39.html">“38: O SON OF BEING! Walk in My statutes for love of Me and deny thyself…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-40.html">“39: O SON OF MAN! Neglect not My commandments if thou lovest My…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-41.html">“40: O SON OF MAN! Wert thou to speed through the immensity of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-42.html">“41: O SON OF MAN! Magnify My cause that I may reveal unto thee the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-43.html">“42: O SON OF MAN! Humble thyself before Me, that I may graciously…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-44.html">“43: O SON OF BEING! Make mention of Me on My earth, that in My…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-45.html">“44: O SON OF THE THRONE! Thy hearing is My hearing, hear thou therewith….”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-46.html">“45: O SON OF BEING! Seek a martyr’s death in My path, content with…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-47.html">“46: O SON OF MAN! Ponder and reflect. Is it thy wish to die upon thy…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-48.html">“47: O SON OF MAN! By My beauty! To tinge thy hair with thy blood…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-49.html">“48: O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-50.html">“49: O SON OF MAN! The true lover yearneth for tribulation even as…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-51.html">“50: O SON OF MAN! If adversity befall thee not in My path, how…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-52.html">“51: O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-53.html">“52: O SON OF MAN! Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-54.html">“53: O SON OF BEING! If poverty overtake thee, be not sad; for in…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-55.html">“54: O SON OF BEING! If thine heart be set upon this eternal, imperishable…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-56.html">“55: O SON OF BEING! Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-57.html">“56: O SON OF MAN! Thou dost wish for gold and I desire thy freedom…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-58.html">“57: O SON OF MAN! Bestow My wealth upon My poor, that in heaven…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-59.html">“58: O SON OF MAN! The temple of being is My throne; cleanse it of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-60.html">“59: O SON OF BEING! Thy heart is My home; sanctify it for My descent….”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-61.html">“60: O SON OF MAN! Put thy hand into My bosom, that I may rise above…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-62.html">“61: O SON OF MAN! Ascend unto My heaven, that thou mayest obtain…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-63.html">“62: O SON OF MAN! Many a day hath passed over thee whilst thou…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-64.html">“63: O SON OF MAN! The light hath shone on thee from the horizon of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-65.html">“64: O SON OF MAN! My eternity is My creation, I have created it for…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-66.html">“65: O SON OF MAN! My majesty is My gift to thee, and My grandeur…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-67.html">“66: O CHILDREN OF THE DIVINE AND INVISIBLE ESSENCE!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-68.html">“67: O SON OF BEAUTY! By My spirit and by My favor! By My mercy and…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-69.html">“68: O CHILDREN OF MEN! Know ye not why We created you all from the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-70.html">“69: O YE SONS OF SPIRIT! Ye are My treasury, for in you I have treasured the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-71.html">“70: O SON OF HIM THAT STOOD BY HIS OWN ENTITY IN THE KINGDOM OF HIS SELF!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-72.html">“71: O SON OF MAN! Write all that We have revealed unto thee with the…”</a></li> </ul> <div class="index1"><a href="hw-73.html">Part II—From the Persian</a></div> <ul> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-73.html">Preamble</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-74.html">“1: O YE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MINDS TO KNOW AND EARS TO HEAR!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-75.html">“2: O SON OF SPIRIT! The bird seeketh its nest; the nightingale the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-76.html">“3: O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-77.html">“4: O SON OF JUSTICE! Whither can a lover go but to the land of his…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-78.html">“5: O SON OF DUST! Verily I say unto thee: Of all men the most negligent…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-79.html">“6: O SON OF EARTH! Know, verily, the heart wherein the least remnant…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-80.html">“7: O SON OF LOVE! Thou art but one step away from the glorious…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-81.html">“8: O SON OF GLORY! Be swift in the path of holiness, and enter the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-82.html">“9: O FLEETING SHADOW! Pass beyond the baser stages of doubt and rise to…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-83.html">“10: O SON OF DESIRE! Give ear unto this: Never shall mortal eye recognize…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-84.html">“11: O SON OF DUST! Blind thine eyes, that thou mayest behold My…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-85.html">“12: O MAN OF TWO VISIONS! Close one eye and open the other. Close one to…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-86.html">“13: O MY CHILDREN! I fear lest, bereft of the melody of the dove of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-87.html">“14: O FRIENDS! Abandon not the everlasting beauty for a beauty…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-88.html">“15: O SON OF SPIRIT! The time cometh, when the nightingale of holiness…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-89.html">“16: O ESSENCE OF NEGLIGENCE! Myriads of mystic tongues find utterance in one…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-90.html">“17: O COMRADES! The gates that open on the Placeless stand wide…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-91.html">“18: O YE DWELLERS IN THE HIGHEST PARADISE!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-92.html">“19: O MY FRIENDS! Have ye forgotten that true and radiant morn,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-93.html">“20: O YE THAT ARE LYING AS DEAD ON THE COUCH OF HEEDLESSNESS!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-94.html">“21: O MOVING FORM OF DUST! I desire communion with thee, but thou wouldst…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-95.html">“22: O SON OF DESIRE! The learned and the wise have for long years…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-96.html">“23: O DWELLERS IN THE CITY OF LOVE! Mortal blasts have beset the everlasting candle,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-97.html">“24: O YE THAT ARE FOOLISH, YET HAVE A NAME TO BE WISE!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-98.html">“25: O YE SEEMING FAIR YET INWARDLY FOUL! Ye are like clear but bitter water, which to outward…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-99.html">“26: O MY FRIEND IN WORD! Ponder awhile. Hast thou ever heard that friend…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-100.html">“27: O SON OF DUST! All that is in heaven and earth I have ordained…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-101.html">“28: O ESSENCE OF DESIRE! At many a dawn have I turned from the realms of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-102.html">“29: O SON OF BOUNTY! Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-103.html">“30: O BOND SLAVE OF THE WORLD! Many a dawn hath the breeze of My loving-kindness…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-104.html">“31: O SON OF EARTH! Wouldst thou have Me, seek none other than…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-105.html">“32: O BEFRIENDED STRANGER! The candle of thine heart is lighted by the hand…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-106.html">“33: O MY BROTHER! Hearken to the delightsome words of My honeyed…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-107.html">“34: O DWELLERS OF MY PARADISE! With the hands of loving-kindness I have…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-108.html">“35: O MY FRIENDS! Quench ye the lamp of error, and kindle within…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-109.html">“36: O SON OF DUST! The wise are they that speak not unless they…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-110.html">“37: O MY SERVANT! Abandon not for that which perisheth an everlasting…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-111.html">“38: O SON OF SPIRIT! Burst thy cage asunder, and even as the phoenix…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-112.html">“39: O OFFSPRING OF DUST! Be not content with the ease of a passing day,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-113.html">“40: O MY SERVANT! Free thyself from the fetters of this world, and…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-114.html">“41: O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Didst thou behold immortal sovereignty, thou…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-115.html">“42: O MY SERVANT! Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-116.html">“43: O MY FRIENDS! Walk ye in the ways of the good pleasure of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-117.html">“44: O COMPANION OF MY THRONE! Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-118.html">“45: ALAS! ALAS! O LOVERS OF WORLDLY DESIRE!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-119.html">“46: O BRETHREN IN THE PATH! Wherefore have ye neglected the mention of the…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-120.html">“47: O CHILDREN OF DESIRE! Put away the garment of vainglory, and divest…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-121.html">“48: O BRETHREN! Be forbearing one with another and set not your…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-122.html">“49: O CHILDREN OF DUST! Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-123.html">“50: O QUINTESSENCE OF PASSION! Put away all covetousness and seek contentment;…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-124.html">“51: O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Be not troubled in poverty nor confident in…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-125.html">“52: O CHILDREN OF NEGLIGENCE AND PASSION!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-126.html">“53: O YE THAT PRIDE YOURSELVES ON MORTAL RICHES!…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-127.html">“54: O YE RICH ONES ON EARTH! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-128.html">“55: O SON OF PASSION! Cleanse thyself from the defilement of riches…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-129.html">“56: O MY SON! The company of the ungodly increaseth sorrow,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-130.html">“57: O SON OF DUST! Beware! Walk not with the ungodly and seek…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-131.html">“58: O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Wouldst thou seek the grace of the Holy Spirit,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-132.html">“59: O HEEDLESS ONES! Think not the secrets of hearts are hidden, nay,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-133.html">“60: O FRIENDS! Verily I say, whatsoever ye have concealed within…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-134.html">“61: O SON OF MAN! A dewdrop out of the fathomless ocean of My…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-135.html">“62: O SON OF DUST! Turn not away thine eyes from the matchless wine…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-136.html">“63: O YE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity followeth…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-137.html">“64: O OPPRESSORS ON EARTH! Withdraw your hands from tyranny, for I have…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-138.html">“65: O REBELLIOUS ONES! My forbearance hath emboldened you and My…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-139.html">“66: O EMIGRANTS! The tongue I have designed for the mention of…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-140.html">“67: O CHILDREN OF FANCY! Know, verily, that while the radiant dawn breaketh…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-141.html">“68: O WEED THAT SPRINGETH OUT OF DUST! Wherefore have not these soiled hands of thine…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-142.html">“69: O CHILDREN OF ADAM! Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-143.html">“70: O SON OF WORLDLINESS! Pleasant is the realm of being, wert thou to attain…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-144.html">“71: O MY FRIENDS! Call ye to mind that covenant ye have entered into…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-145.html">“72: O MY SERVANT! Thou art even as a finely tempered sword concealed…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-146.html">“73: O MY FRIEND! Thou art the daystar of the heavens of My holiness,…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-147.html">“74: O CHILDREN OF VAINGLORY! For a fleeting sovereignty ye have abandoned My…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-148.html">“75: O CHILDREN OF NEGLIGENCE! Set not your affections on mortal sovereignty…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-149.html">“76: O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Guidance hath ever been given by words, and now…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-150.html">“77: O SON OF JUSTICE! In the night-season the beauty of the immortal…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-151.html">“78: O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-152.html">“79: O SON OF DESIRE! How long wilt thou soar in the realms of desire?…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-153.html">“80: O MY SERVANTS! Ye are the trees of My garden; ye must give forth…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-154.html">“81: O MY SERVANT! The basest of men are they that yield no fruit…”</a></li> <li class="index2"><a href="hw-155.html">“82: O MY SERVANT! 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