tag name Abhá Kingdom type: Miscellaneous; Terminology web link bahai-library.com/tags/Abha_Kingdom variations or mis-spellings malakút-i-abhá (ملکوت ابهی) related tags Cosmology; Kingdom of God; Life after death (afterlife); Soul, Human; Worlds of God referring tags Heaven and hell notes Literally "Most Glorious Kingdom" or "Kingdom of the All-Glorious"
"The 'next world'; the spiritual realm... into which the soul passes after death."
– from A Basic Bahá'í Dictionary (1989)
See also:
– Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"You have asked concerning eternal life and entrance into the Kingdom. The Kingdom is outwardly referred to as “heaven”, but this is an expression and likeness and not a factual statement or reality. For the Kingdom is not a material location but is sanctified above time and place. It is a spiritual realm, a divine world, and it is the seat of the sovereignty of the almighty Lord. It is exalted above bodies and all that is corporeal, and it is freed and sanctified from the idle conjectures of men. For to be confined to place is a characteristic of bodies and not of spirits: Time and place encompass the body, not the mind and the soul... Entrance into the Kingdom is through the love of God, through detachment, through sanctity and holiness, through truthfulness and purity, through steadfastness and faithfulness, and through self-sacrifice..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chapter 67 (AB00336)
references bahaipedia.org/Abhá_Kingdom; bahai9.com/wiki/Vocabulary#"Abhá_Kingdom"
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