The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
Part II--From the Persian
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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.
The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
Part II--From the Persian
pages 28-29
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