Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-22
OOL 06 20343 Phelps: ABU 1363
ABU 1363‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-22
230 words
Question:
Although it is assured that the life of this world is transitory and attachment to it is not praiseworthy, yet in many a sacred Tablet the Blessed Perfection and the Master himself have lamented and bemoaned the physical deaths of those who have journeyed to the abode of eternal Peace. What is the wisdom of this?
Translation:
Provisional translation
The physical body has also a share. When I was in America a number of Christians came to me and asked a most subtle and difficult question.