Time, our most precious resource --
These few brief days shall pass away, this present life shall vanish from our sight... [I]n the tavern of this swiftly-passing world the man of God will not lie drunken, nor will he even for a moment take his ease, nor stain himself with any fondness for this earthly life...
Nay rather, the friends are stars in the high heavens of guidance, celestial bodies in the skies of divine grace, who with all their powers put the dark to flight... They have truthfulness and honest dealing and friendship for their goal,... and kindness even toward a vicious foe; until at last they change this prison of treachery, the world, into a mansion of utmost trust, and turn this gaol-house...into God's Paradise...
[T]he dearest wish of this wronged one is that the friends be spiritual of heart and illumined of mind.
('Abdu'l-Bahá, SWA 220-221)
Nay rather, the friends are stars in the high heavens of guidance, celestial bodies in the skies of divine grace, who with all their powers put the dark to flight... They have truthfulness and honest dealing and friendship for their goal,... and kindness even toward a vicious foe; until at last they change this prison of treachery, the world, into a mansion of utmost trust, and turn this gaol-house...into God's Paradise...
[T]he dearest wish of this wronged one is that the friends be spiritual of heart and illumined of mind.
('Abdu'l-Bahá, SWA 220-221)
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