No Spare Night-Robe
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When in Bahá'í history
During His last earthly hours ‘Abdu’l-Bahá lay in bed with a fever and His night-robe needed changing. However, none could be found, as He had given them away.
Marzieh Gail gives a fuller account in Arches of the Years: "On the last night of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's life, when they wanted to change His night robe to cool His fever, and looked for His other one, a new one which had just been offered Him, it was gone. He had given it away."
Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 66; Marzieh Gail, Arches of the Years.
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