Doctor Grandma

A long time ago on this blog, I was posting one of these every once in awhile. They are little meditations from a small book written by the Founder of the Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah, which He wrote while walking along the Tigris river after being banished from Iran. (See previous post.) It seems timely to publish this next one in honor of the suffering of the Bahai’s of Iran, their largest religious minority:

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“O SON OF BEING! Seek a martyr’s death in My path, content with My pleasure and thankful for that which I ordain, that thou mayest repose with Me beneath the canopy of majesty behind the tabernacle of glory.”

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and let’s post the next one along with it, to progress further through this book until it is done. Perhaps I will post one every Friday from now on:

no.46: “O SON OF MAN! Ponder and reflect. Is it thy wish to die upon thy bed, or to shed thy life-blood on the dust, a martyr in My path, and so become the manifestation of My command and the revealer of My light in the highest paradise? Judge thou aright, O servant!”

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no.47: “O SON OF MAN! By My beauty! To tinge thy hair with thy blood is greater in My sight than the creation of the  universe and the light of both worlds. Strive then to attain this, O servant!”

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All of those are speaking in the tradition of martyrdom. This sounds foreign to those of us in the West, and it has nothing to do with the misguided terrorism going on today. It’s more like the early Christians: Persecution. And it’s more like Peter: You always have a choice. In the end, with all of Peter’s devotion, he denied Christ 3X. Or of course the prime example is Judas. For 3 pieces of gold or silver, he handed Christ over to the murderers. The Bahai’s in Iran always have a choice: Just deny your faith. But that’s like denying God. People should have the freedom to believe and worship how they believe, as long as it does not harm anyone else.

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At any rate, let’s end with this last Hidden Word no.48:

“O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.”

Can I hear, Amen?

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