A friend asked: “How should one look forward to death?
Abdu’l-Bahá answered: “How does one look forward to the
goal of any journey? With hope and with expectation. It is even so with the end
of this earthly journey. In the next world, man will find himself freed from
many of the disabilities under which he now suffers. Those who have passed on
through death, have a sphere of their own. It is not removed from ours; their
work, the work of the Kingdom, is ours; but it is sanctified from what we call
‘time and place.’ Time with us is measured by the sun. When there is no more
sunrise, and no more sunset, that kind of time does not exist for man. Those
who have ascended have different attributes from those who are still on earth,
yet there is no real separation. In prayer there is a mingling of station, a
mingling of condition. Pray for them as they pray for you!”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Notes of conversations; ‘Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
