Building the Shrine of the Báb

Bahá’u’lláh could trust ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with the most difficult of tasks as He knew He would never waver. One such task was that of building a Shrine for the Báb on Mount Carmel, above what was then the small town of Haifa, facing the Mediterranean Sea. One of many obstacles which developed was that the owner of the plot, influenced by scheming Covenant-breakers, would not readily consent to sell the land. Shoghi Effendi recorded: “‘Every stone of that building, every stone of the road leading to it,’ He, many a time was heard to remark, ‘I have with infinite tears and at tremendous cost, raised and placed in position.’ ‘One night,’ He, according to an eye-witness, once observed, ‘I was so hemmed in by My anxieties that I had no other recourse than to recite and repeat over and over again a prayer of the Báb which I had in My possession, the recital of which greatly calmed Me. The next morning the owner of the plot himself came to Me, apologized and begged Me to purchase his property.’”

Source: Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Annamarie Honnold), no. 47, “Building the Shrine of the Báb”, p. 33; ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s words as recorded by Shoghi Effendi in God Passes By, ch. XVIII.

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: anxiety).

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