Hidden Word, Arabic 59: Thy Heart Is My Home

Bahá'u'lláh revealed the Hidden Words in Baghdád in the year 1274 A.H. (1857–58), partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. Shoghi Effendi writes in *God Passes By* that Bahá'u'lláh was inspired with them "as He paced, wrapped in His meditations, the banks of the Tigris."

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This is the fifty-ninth of the Arabic Hidden Words:

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> O SON OF BEING! Thy heart is My home; sanctify it for My descent. Thy spirit is My place of revelation; cleanse it for My manifestation.

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The Hidden Word just before it uses a kindred image:

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> O SON OF MAN! The temple of being is My throne; cleanse it of all things, that there I may be established and there I may abide.

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*From **The Hidden Words** of Bahá'u'lláh (Arabic, nos. 59 and 58), translated by Shoghi Effendi. The account of their revelation is from Shoghi Effendi's **God Passes By**.*

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