Pity
I swear by the Greatest Name, it is a pity that in these days anyone should gaze at transient concerns! . . . The heart of the world is enkindled with the divine world. It is a pity for you not to be ignited with this fire.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í Scriptures, p. 134
O Lord! Have pity on my weakness and strengthen me with Thy power! O Lord! Have pity on my impotency and assist me with Thy might and majesty!
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 423
The Pen of Admonition exhorteth the friends and enjoineth on them charity, pity, wisdom, and gentleness.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 45
However much pity and sympathy we may have for humanity, we nevertheless realize that people today are suffering for their own sins of omission and commission. We must help them to see this and to turn their thoughts and acts into the channels Divinely prescribed by Bahá’u’lláh.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 129
Quote of the Day
Fidal 10 Mashiyyat 183 B.E.
The lives of the Founders of our Faith clearly show that to be fundamentally assured does not mean that we live without anxieties, nor does being happy mean that there are not periods of deep grief when, like the Guardian, we wrap ourselves in a blanket, pray and supplicate, and give ourselves time for healing in preparation for the next great effort.
Shoghi Effendi – Quickeners of Mankind, p. 117