What is love? – ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains
Know thou of a certainty that- Love is the secret of God’s
holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of
spiritual outpourings.
- Love is heaven’s kindly
light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul.
- Love is the cause of God’s
revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine
creation, in the realities of things.
- Love is the one means that
ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next.
- Love is the light that
guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth
the progress of every illumined soul.
- Love is the most great law
that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth
together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force
that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms.
- Love revealeth with
unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe.
- Love is the spirit of life
unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this
mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race
and nation.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
