Istiqlál, 05 Bahá (Splendor), 179 B.E

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Another day focused on support of my partner and her middle brother as he goes through diagnostics to understand more about his recent health concerns. Like much of what life deals out, there’s the process of learning about what’s going on followed by the process of learning about what addresses what’s going on, which then leads to the process of changing whatever one’s doing that prevents what’s going on from continuing and hopefully, reverses its ill-effects. Still, no matter how much one knows about cause and effect, it’s oftentimes an overwhelming challenge to take responsibility for one’s part in the “drama” playing out and change one’s behavior to alter its trajectory. But I’m getting ahead of myself—we’re still trying to find out what’s going on …

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O friends! It behooveth you to refresh and revive your souls through the gracious favors which in this Divine, this soul-stirring Springtime are being showered upon you. The Daystar of His great glory hath shed its radiance upon you, and the clouds of His limitless grace have overshadowed you. How high the reward of him that hath not deprived himself of so great a bounty, nor failed to recognize the beauty of his Best-Beloved in this, His new attire. Watch over yourselves, for the Evil One is lying in wait, ready to entrap you. Gird yourselves against his wicked devices, and, led by the light of the name of the All-Seeing God, make your escape from the darkness that surroundeth you. Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self. The Evil One is he that hindereth the rise and obstructeth the spiritual progress of the children of men. 1


  1. Baháʾuʾlláh. Tablets of Baháʼuʼlláh, Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Translated by Habib Taherzadeh. 1st ed. Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1978, 86-87, https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/tablets-bahaullah/3#697535395. [return]