It is clear that life in this fast-fading world is as
fleeting and inconstant as the morning wind, and this being so, how fortunate
are the great who leave a good name behind them, and the memory of a lifetime
spent in the pathway of the good pleasure of God.
It is all one, if it be a throne
Or the bare ground under the open sky,
Where the pure soul lays him
Down to die. [Sa’dí, a Persian poet]
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘The Secret of Divine
Civilization’)
