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Partial Inventory [5]: #AB00984

by Steven Phelps (2025)

# AB00984 - `Abdu'l-Bahá   -   390 words   -   Arabic and Persian (mixed)
opening,
original
ای احبای الهی این جهان ترابی و خاکدان فانی آشیان مرغ خاکیست و لانه خفاش
opening,
English
O ye beloved of God! This earthly world, this dusty ephemeral abode, is but the nest of terrestrial birds and the den of bats [3.5s]
manuscripts INBA13:143, INBA17:096, INBA55:408, INBA59:238, INBA88:128b
publications BRL_DAK#0474, MKT1.443, MILAN.182, BSHN.140.216, BSHN.140.372, BSHN.144.216, DWNP_v5#11 p.004-005, MAS5.073x, MHT1a.114, MHT1b.072, MHT2.162, YHA1.379x
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Acting according to the exigencies of the day; pragmatism; Love of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world
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