Hidden Word, Arabic 64: The Garment of Thy Temple
Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, (1858), Bahá'í Publishing Trust · Read original
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This is the sixty-fourth of the Arabic Hidden Words:
O SON OF MAN! My eternity is My creation, I have created it for thee. Make it the garment of thy temple. My unity is My handiwork; I have wrought it for thee; clothe thyself therewith, that thou mayest be to all eternity the revelation of My everlasting being.
From The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh (Arabic, no. 64), translated by Shoghi Effendi.
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Bahá'u'lláh. (1858). *The Hidden Words*. Bahá'í Publishing Trust. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/hidden-words/
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