Tablet catalog
Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09
OOL 06 80694 Phelps: ABU 3485
ABU 3485•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09
20 words
Question:
What is hell?
Translation:
Provisional translation
Is there a hell more direful than Ignorance? A hell worse than deprivation from the Divine Nearness? A hell lower than negligence and inadvertence?
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
DAS.1914-05-09
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=107
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_1914 p003
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=3