Blessed is the spirit which abandons the body, previously
sanctified and freed from the doubts of the nations. Verily, it moves in the
atmosphere of the will of its Lord, and it enters into the supreme paradise. It
is welcomed by the angels of the Most High. It associates with the prophets of
God, and his chosen ones, and it converses with them, and relates to them those
events which have happened to it in the path of God, the Lord of both worlds.
Were one to become informed of that which is pre-ordained
for the spirit in the worlds of God, the Lord of the throne and the earth, he
would become immediately enkindled with the fire of yearning for this
impregnable, exalted, holy, and most glorious state of being. (Words of
‘Abdul-Baha from Diary of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, February, 1914; Star of the West
vol. 7, March 2, 1917)
