Tag: "World"

tag name	World	type:	Metaphors and allegories; Philosophy; Science: natural, social, and applied
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/World
related tags	- Concepts; Cosmology, cosmos; Creation
referring tags	Betterment of society; Earth; Impermanence and transience; Lawh-i-Dunya (Tablet of the World); Material world corresponds to the spiritual world; Microcosm and macrocosm; State of the world (global issues); Transformation of the world; Two worlds; World peace; Worlds of God
notes	See also: – Covenant Library Unified Index The below terms carry distinct theological, cosmological, and spiritual nuances, drawing from Arabic, Persian, and Islamic mystical traditions. Please check a dictionary or use an AI tool to get an idea of the various meanings. Compare also with the tag "Earth", where there is some overlap. ‘álam ( عالم ) jahán ( جهان ) dunyá ( دنیا ) áfáq ( آفاق ) arḍ ( ارض ) gítí ( گیتی ) mulk ( مُلک )
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: "Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants." – Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words, Arabic, #55 (BH00386) "... The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance of reality. Set not your affections upon it. Break not the bond that uniteth you with your Creator, and be not of those that have erred and strayed from His ways. Verily I say, the world is like the vapor in a desert, which the thirsty dreameth to be water and striveth after it with all his might, until when he cometh unto it, he findeth it to be mere illusion..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII (Tablet of Ahmad, Persian; BH00249) "... Disencumber yourselves of all attachment to this world and the vanities thereof... Know ye that by “the world” is meant your unawareness of Him Who is your Maker, and your absorption in aught else but Him. The “life to come,” on the other hand, signifieth the things that give you a safe approach to God, the All-Glorious, the Incomparable. Whatsoever deterreth you, in this Day, from loving God is nothing but the world. Flee it, that ye may be numbered with the blest. Should a man wish to adorn himself with the ornaments of the earth, to wear its apparels, or partake of the benefits it can bestow, no harm can befall him, if he alloweth nothing whatever to intervene between him and God, for God hath ordained every good thing, whether created in the heavens or in the earth, for such of His servants as truly believe in Him. Eat ye, O people, of the good things which God hath allowed you, and deprive not yourselves from His wondrous bounties. Render thanks and praise unto Him, and be of them that are truly thankful..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CXXVIII (BH00144)
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