Ocean of Lights

330 words

Question:

If it is so that the thoughts of all men are governed by God, how is it that He shall reward the doer of good deeds and punish the doer of evil ones?

Translation:

Provisional translation

Everything is from God, both good and evil... Everything in existence is good, and only the lack of goodness make a thing evil. The being is created good

Translations (4)

BSC. Bahá'í Scriptures. Brentanos, 1923. Compilation of Writings and talks by Bahá’u’lláh and Abdu’l-Bahá. Early translations, some unreliable. http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

BSC.500 #963x

http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/

PN. Pilgrim notes from the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Arranged by year with occasional additional identifiers. https://bahai-library.com/pilgrims- notes_us_archives_1898-1959

PN_1900 p061

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=61

PN_unsorted p148

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=148

PN_1900 p003x

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=3