Tag: "Choice sealed wine"

tag name	Choice sealed wine	type:	Metaphors and allegories; Religions, Middle Eastern
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Choice_sealed_wine
variations or mis-spellings	rahíqin makhtúmin; unsealed
related tags	God, Word of; Seals; Wine (metaphor)
referring tags	Sealed book
Inventory subject	Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation
notes	"... But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end..." – Daniel 12:4 (KJV translation) "They are given to drink of pure wine sealed, whose seal is musk..." – Qur’án 83:25–26 (translation "The Study Qur'an"). [The Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude)] "proffered to mankind the “Choice Sealed Wine,” whose seal is of “musk,” and broke the “seals” of the “Book” referred to by Daniel, and disclosed the meaning of the “words” destined to remain “closed up” till the “time of the end. – Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 139 "... I have, moreover, with the hand of divine power, unsealed the choice wine of My Revelation, and have wafted its holy, its hidden, and musk-laden fragrance upon all created things ... – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII (Tablet of Ahmad, Persian; BH00249) "We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶5 "... Reference to the use of “wine” in an allegorical sense—such as being the cause of spiritual ecstasy—is found, not only in the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, but in the Bible, in the Qur’án, and in ancient Hindu traditions. For example, in the Qur’án the righteous are promised that they will be given to drink of the “choice sealed wine.” In His Tablets, Bahá’u’lláh identifies the “choice Wine” with His Revelation whose “musk-laden fragrance” has been wafted “upon all created things.” He states that He has “unsealed” this “Wine,” thereby disclosing spiritual truths that were hitherto unknown, and enabling those who quaff thereof to “discern the splendors of the light of divine unity” and to “grasp the essential purpose underlying the Scriptures of God.” In one of His meditations, Bahá’u’lláh entreats God to supply the believers with “the choice Wine of Thy mercy, that it may cause them to be forgetful of anyone except Thee, and to arise to serve Thy Cause, and to be steadfast in their love for Thee.” – Note 2 referring to ¶5 of: Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas.
references	www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Choice wine; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Sealed wine

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