As to the statement of Job, chapter 19, verses 25–27, ‘I
know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon
the earth,’ the meaning here is: I shall not be abased, I have a Sustainer and
a Guardian, and my Helper, my Defender will in the end be made manifest. And
although now my flesh be weak and clothed with worms, yet shall I be healed,
and with these mine own eyes, that is, mine inner sight, I shall behold Him.
This did Job say after they had reproached him, and he himself had lamented the
harms that his tribulations had wreaked upon him. And even when, from the
terrible inroads of the sickness, his body was covered with worms, he sought to
tell those about him that still he would be fully healed, and that in his very
body, with his very eyes, he would gaze on his Redeemer.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
