Guidance

All the difficulties of our time have continued to multiply because men and women do not pray in their hearts and take time to read the Word's of God from the Gospels, the Qur'an and the Baha'i writings. There is no other way to know our purpose, to know our souls, to know our deep connection to the unknowable. Meditation and reflection, hear the voice in the Words of God calling. "For the break of the morn of divine guidance must needs follow the darkness of the night of error."

Qur'an 3:164
"Indeed, God bestowed a favour upon the believers
when he raised up in their midst an apostle
from among themselves,
to convey His messages unto them,
and to cause them to grow in purity,
and to impart unto them the divine writ
as well as wisdom -
whereas before that they were indeed,
most obviously, lost in error."

Short Obligatory Prayer (Baha'i)

"I bear witness, O my God,
that Thou hast created me
to know Thee and to worship Thee.
I testify, at this moment,
to my powerlessness and to Thy might,
to my poverty and to Thy wealth.
There is none other God but Thee,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting."

What "oppression" is more grievous than
that a soul seeking the truth,
and wishing to attain unto the knowledge of God,
should know not where to go for it
and from whom to seek it?
For opinions have sorely differed,
and the ways unto the attainment of God have multiplied.
This "oppression" is the essential feature
of every Revelation.
Unless it cometh to pass,
the Sun of Truth will not be made manifest.
For the break of the morn of divine guidance
must needs follow the darkness of the night of error.
For this reason, in all chronicles and traditions
reference hath been made unto these things,
namely that iniquity shall cover the surface
of the earth and darkness shall envelop mankind.
(Baha'i writings)

A.G.W