The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
Part II--From the Persian
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ALAS! ALAS! O LOVERS OF WORLDLY
DESIRE!
Even as the swiftness of lightning ye have passed
by the Beloved One, and have set your hearts
on satanic fancies. Ye bow the knee before
your vain imagining, and call it truth. Ye
turn your eyes towards the thorn, and name it a
flower. Not a pure breath have ye breathed, nor
hath the breeze of detachment been wafted from
the meadows of your hearts. Ye have cast to the
winds the loving counsels of the Beloved and have
effaced them utterly from the tablet of your
hearts, and even as the beasts of the field, ye move
and have your being within the pastures of desire
and passion.
The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh
Part II--From the Persian
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