As to the reference in the Arabic Hidden Words that the
human being must become detached from self, here too the meaning is that he
should not seek out anything whatever for his own self in this swiftly-passing
life, but that he should cut the self away, that is, he should yield up the
self and all its concerns on the field of martyrdom, at the time of the coming
of the Lord.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
