• suspend

    suspend

    “Suspended in the air, she let fall a single lock of her hair from beneath her luminous veil—Rejoice! This is the Maid of Heaven, come with a wondrous spirit…“ – Bahá’u’lláh, Days of Remembrance

  • leaf

    “O My handmaiden, O My leaf! Render thou thanks unto the Best-Beloved of the world for having attained this boundless grace at a time when the world’s learned and most distinguished men have remained deprived thereof. We have designated thee “a leaf” that thou mayest, like unto leaves, be stirred by the gentle wind of…

  • unfold

    unfold

    “O Son of Spirit!The time cometh, when the nightingale of holiness will no longer unfold the inner mysteries and ye will all be bereft of the celestial melody and of the voice from on high.“ – Bahá’u’lláh, The Hidden Words #15, From the Persian

  • splendor

    splendor

    “Cause them to enter the garden of happiness, cleanse them with the most pure water, and grant them to behold Thy splendors on the loftiest mount.“ —‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Bahá’í Prayers

  • branch

    branch

    “Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. He Who is the Daystar of Truth beareth Me witness! So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle…

  • fire

    fire

    “O God, my God! Praise be unto Thee for kindling the fire of divine love in the Holy Tree on the summit of the loftiest mount: that Tree which is “neither of the East nor of the West,” that fire which blazed out till the flame of it soared upward to the Concourse on high,…

  • curbed

    curbed

    “How great is the blessedness of him who, for love of Thy beauty and for the sake of Thy pleasure, hath curbed the desires of a corrupt inclination and observed the precepts laid down by Thy most exalted Pen!“ – Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh

  • lines

    lines

    “…the lines were touching in the extreme, so that all who were there shed tears, and voices were raised in grief.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, describing the writing of the poet and coppersmith Áqá Muḥammad-Ibráhím in Memorials of the Faithful

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