Manifestations - Sad
The messenger of God is often sad, but his sadness does not come from causes relating to himself. He longs that a soul become illumined, but the soul prefers darkness; he yearns to change the ignorance of the people into knowledge, their error into guidance, their insincerity into truth, their faithlessness into firmness; but people prefer their own shadows and he who manifests God becomes sad over the negligence of these sleeping ones. Are they not of the heedless? When I am sad, I always pray.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 73-74
Quote of the Day
Idal 19 Baha 183 B.E.
Wherefore, O My servants, defile not your wings with the clay of waywardness and vain desires, and suffer them not to be stained with the dust of envy and hate, that ye may not be hindered from soaring in the heavens of My divine knowledge.
Bahá’u’lláh – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 327