The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
centuries? Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise. By My life! Neither the pomp of the mighty, nor the wealth of the rich, nor even the ascendancy of the ungodly will endure. All will perish, at a word from Him. He, verily, is the All-Powerful, the All-Compelling, the Almighty. What advantage is there in the earthly things which men possess? That which shall profit them, they have utterly neglected. Erelong, they will awake from their slumber, and find themselves unable to obtain that which hath escaped them in the days of their Lord, the Almighty, the All-Praised. Did they but know it, they would renounce their all, that their names may be mentioned before His throne. They, verily, are accounted among the dead.
41Amongst the people is he whose learning hath made him proud, and who hath been debarred thereby from recognizing My Name, the Self-Subsisting; who, when he heareth the tread of sandals following behind him, waxeth greater in his own esteem than Nimrod. Say: O rejected one! Where now is his abode? By God, it is the nethermost fire. Say: O concourse of divines! Hear ye not the shrill voice of My Most Exalted Pen? See ye not this Sun that shineth in refulgent splendour above the All-Glorious Horizon? For how long will ye worship the idols of your evil passions? Forsake your vain imaginings, and turn yourselves unto God, your Everlasting Lord.
42Endowments dedicated to charity revert to God, the Revealer of Signs. None hath the right to dispose of
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Internal Related Cross-References
Paragraph 41.
Paragraph 42.
Study Guide
Paragraph 41.
What is said to the divines?
(See Note 65)
Who was Nimrod?
Paragraph 42.
(See Note 66)
What is Aghṣán?
(See Note 67)
Who are the “people of Bahá” referred to in this passage?
Who directed the affairs of the Cause after Shoghi Effendi’s death in 1957 until the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963?
External Related Cross-References
Paragraph 42.