This is the Meadow of Paradise wherein the melody of God,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath been exalted. Therein hath
Houris [Maidens] of Eternity been empowered whom none hath touched save God,
the Almighty, the Sanctified. Therein doth the Nightingale of Eternal
Subsistence warble upon the branches of the Lote-Tree of the Extremity with
such a melody as hath bedazzled discerning souls. Therein is that through
which the poor and needy are made to approach the shore of independent
self-sufficiency and the people obtain guidance unto the Word of
God. Such, indeed, is the certain Truth!
- Baha’u’llah (From ‘Tablet
of the Bell’; a provisional translation)
