Reflections on Sacrifice and Devotion in Sector Devotions
Explore profound spiritual teachings on sacrifice, devotion, and service from Sector Devotions. Discover inspiring quotes from Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Bah that emphasize selflessness and commitment to a higher purpose. Let these words ignite the flame of love in your heart and inspire you to strive for divine grace through acts of sacrifice and service.
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Sector Devotions Theme: Sacrifice
Blessed he who hath attired his head with the diadem of My love. Blessed is he who hath heard of My grief and hath arisen to aid Me among My people. Blessed is he who hath laid down his life in My path and hath borne manifold hardships for the sake of My Name (Baha u llah).
Strive, that ye may truly recognize and know Him, and observe befittingly His precepts. This is a Revelation, under which, if a man shed for its sake one drop of blood, myriads of oceans will be his recompense (Baha u llah).
He is God! O God, my God! Bestow upon me a pure heart, like unto a pearl ( Abdu l-Bah ).
Wherefore, look not on the degree of your capacity, ask not if you are worthy of the task: rest ye your hopes on the help and loving-kindness, the favours and bestowals of Bah u ll h may my soul be offered up for His friends! Urge on the steed of high endeavour over the field of sacrifice, and carry away from this wide arena the prize of divine grace ( Abdu l-Bah ).
Soon will our handful of days, our vanishing life, be gone, and we shall pass, empty-handed, into the hollow that is dug for those who speak no more; wherefore must we bind our hearts to the manifest Beauty, and cling to the lifeline that faileth never. We must gird ourselves for service, kindle love s flame, and burn away in its heat. We must loose our tongues till we set the wide world s heart afire, and with bright rays of guidance blot out the armies of the night, and then, for His sake, on the field of sacrifice, fling down our lives ( Abdu l-Bah ).
God is sufficient unto me; He verily is the All-sufficing! In Him let the trusting trust (Baha u llah).
Let us take for our example the great and sacred Tree of the exalted B b may my life be offered up for Him. Like Him let us bare our breasts to the shafts of agony, like Him make our hearts to be targets for the spears decreed by God. Let us, like candles, burn away; as moths, let us scorch our wings; as the field larks, vent our plaintive cries; as the nightingales, burst forth in lamentations( Abdu l-Bah ).
In your love for God and your attachment to Abdul-Bah, accept ye every tribulation, every sorrow. Endure the aggressor s taunts, put up with the enemy s reproaches. Follow in the footsteps of Abdu l-Bah , and in the pathway of the Abh Beauty, long at every moment to give up your lives. Shine out like the day-star, be unresting as the sea; even as the clouds of heaven, shed ye life upon field and hill, and like unto April winds, blow freshness through those human trees, and bring them to their blossoming ( Abdu l-Bah ).
God is sufficient unto me; He verily is the All-sufficing! In Him let the trusting trust (Baha u llah).
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