Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10
OOL 06 30141Phelps:ABU 1560
ABU 1560•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10
200 words
Question:
Why did God create the world and man?
Translation:
Provisional translation
God hath made all the phenomena for the sake of man and created man for Himself. We consider that the sun is shining, the clouds are pouring down rain
DAS.Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914