Fifty Years of Abiding Love
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When in Bahá'í history
Munírih Khánum wrote about her companionship with her husband, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá:
“If I were to write the details of the fifty years of my association with the Beloved of the world, of His love, His mercy and bounty, I would need fifty years more of time and opportunity in order to write it; yet, if the seas of the world were turned into ink and the leaves of the forest into paper, I would not render adequate justice to the subject.”
Source: Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Annamarie Honnold), no. 92, p. 103.
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