- Baha'u'llah (The
Kitab-i-Iqan)
July 11, 2019
We need to “cleanse the eye” of our “heart from the things of the world” so that we may “realize the infinitude of divine knowledge”
Dear friend! Now when the light of God's everlasting Morn is
breaking; when the radiance of His holy words: "God is the light of the
heavens and of the earth"[Qur'án 24:35] is shedding illumination upon all
mankind; when the inviolability of His tabernacle is being proclaimed by His
sacred utterance: "God hath willed to perfect His light;"[Qur'án
9:33] and the Hand of omnipotence, bearing His testimony: "In His grasp He
holdeth the kingdom of all things," is being outstretched unto all the
peoples and kindreds of the earth; it behooveth us to gird up the loins of
endeavour, that haply, by the grace and bounty of God, we may enter the
celestial City: "Verily, we are God's," and abide within the exalted
habitation: "And unto Him we do return." It is incumbent upon thee,
by the permission of God, to cleanse the eye of thine heart from the things of
the world, that thou mayest realize the infinitude of divine knowledge, and
mayest behold Truth so clearly that thou wilt need no proof to demonstrate His
reality, nor any evidence to bear witness unto His testimony.
