Tag: "Clouds"

tag name:	Clouds	type:	Metaphors and allegories; Religions, Middle Eastern
web link:	bahai-library.com/tags/Clouds
related tags:	– Concepts, Religious; Manifestations of God, Recognition of; Manifestations of God, Rejection of; Nature
referring tags:	Ama (cloud); Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Rain
Inventory subject:	The cloud ['ama]
notes:	"... And now regarding His words, that the Son of man shall “come in the clouds of heaven.” These “clouds” signify, in one sense, the annulment of laws, the abrogation of former Dispensations, the repeal of rituals and customs current amongst men, the exalting of the illiterate faithful above the learned opposers of the Faith. In another sense, they mean the appearance of that immortal Beauty in the image of mortal man, with such human limitations as eating and drinking, poverty and riches, glory and abasement, sleeping and waking, and such other things as cast doubt in the minds of men, and cause them to turn away. All such veils are symbolically referred to as “clouds.” ... "... It is evident that the changes brought about in every Dispensation constitute the dark clouds that intervene between the eye of man’s understanding and the divine Luminary which shineth forth from the dayspring of the divine Essence. Consider how men for generations have been blindly imitating their fathers, and have been trained according to such ways and manners as have been laid down by the dictates of their Faith. Were these men, therefore, to discover suddenly that a Man, Who hath been living in their midst, Who, with respect to every human limitation, hath been their equal, had risen to abolish every established principle imposed by their Faith—principles by which for centuries they have been disciplined, and every opposer and denier of which they have come to regard as infidel, profligate and wicked—they would of a certainty be veiled and hindered from acknowledging His truth. Such things are as “clouds” that veil the eyes of those whose inner being hath not tasted the Salsabíl of detachment, nor drunk from the Kawthar of the knowledge of God. Such men, when acquainted with these circumstances, become so veiled that without the least question, they pronounce the Manifestation of God an infidel, and sentence Him to death. You must have heard of such things taking place all down the ages, and are now observing them in these days. – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude, ¶ 79-81
references:	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud#In_culture_and_religion; bahai9.com/wiki/Cloud; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Cloud

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