{"id":2789,"date":"2012-09-20T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2012-09-20T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:46:38","slug":"if-thou-hast-in-thine-heart-one-desire-for-thy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2789","title":{"rendered":"If thou hast in thine heart one desire for thy life…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A friend shared this poem by Baha’u’llah with me, which I had never heard, and I wanted to post it here.<\/p>\n

——————<\/p>\n

The following was told by ‘Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1 to the friends at Abu-Sinan in 1915.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whilst at Baghdad many learned mullas and others came into the Holy Presence, several of whom became His devoted friends; one of those was Kayvan Mirza, grandson of Fath-‘Ali Shah. This gentleman came and asked Mirza Muhit to obtain permission for an audience at some midnight in secret.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reply was:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When I was in the wilderness of Kurdistan I composed this poem:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If thou hast in thine heart one desire for thy life, then come not\u00c2\u00a0hither!<\/strong>
\nBut shouldst thou be prepared to sacrifice soul, and heart and life,<\/strong>
\ncome and bring others!<\/strong>
\nSuch is the path if thou desire to enter the Kingdom of Light,<\/strong>
\nIf thou art not of those able to walk this path — <\/strong>
\nBegone, and trouble us not!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mirza Muhit conveyed this reply to Kayvan Mirza. He chose to “Begone,” his heart failed him!<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, p. 55)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend shared this poem by Baha’u’llah with me, which I had never heard, and I wanted to post it here. —————— The following was told by ‘Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1 to the friends at Abu-Sinan in 1915. Whilst at Baghdad many learned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}