True Wealth

Today's passages are from Some Answered Questions by Abdu'l-Baha, pages 78-80, titled True Wealth, and Prescription for Living by Ruhiyyih Khanum, pages 62-63. We continue our reading of The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah with the thirteenth Hidden Word from the Arabic:

O Son of Spirit!

I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself

down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself?

Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou

enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I moulded

thee, how doest thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto

thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful

and self-subsisting.