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20: O Ye That Are Lying As Dead On The Couch Of Heedlessness!

Categories: FROM THE PERSIAN
Sources: The Hidden Words Of Baha'u'llah

In the eighth of the most holy lines, in the fifth Tablet of Paradise, He

saith: O YE THAT ARE LYING AS DEAD ON THE COUCH OF HEEDLESSNESS! Ages have

passed and your precious lives are well-nigh ended, yet not a single

breath of purity hath reached Our court of holiness from you. Though

immersed in the ocean of misbelief, yet with your lips ye profess the one

true faith of God. Him whom I abhor ye have loved, and of My foe ye have

made a friend. Notwithstanding, ye walk on My earth complacent and

self-satisfied, heedless that My earth is weary of you and everything

within it shunneth you. Were ye but to open your eyes, ye would, in truth,

prefer a myriad griefs unto this joy, and would count death itself better

than this life.



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