Sad
If you are sad, and pass a child who is laughing, the child, seeing your sad face, will cease to laugh, not knowing why.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 124
When I am sad, I always pray.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 73-74
Ye have been forbidden in the Book of God to . . . commit similar acts whereby hearts and souls may be saddened. A fine of nineteen mithqals of gold had formerly been prescribed by Him Who is the Lord of all mankind for anyone who was the cause of sadness to another."
- Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 72
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?
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 73-74
Quote of the Day
Kamal 17 Qawl 182 B.E.
Because a person is accused does not necessarily prove that he or she is guilty; and the administrative bodies cannot be too careful in such matters.
Shoghi Effendi – The Light of Divine Guidance v II, p. 129-130