The Master’s Knowledge and Wisdom

Annamarie Honnold writes of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s knowledge and wisdom:

No mere mortal in His day could claim to be His teacher. He learned well and thoroughly. When, late in His life, Bahá’u’lláh took up residence at Bahjí, the Master remained in ‘Akká to attend to a multitude of details, which otherwise might have distracted Bahá’u’lláh from His writing. But frequently the Master carried news to Bahjí. He then reported on religious questions He had encountered. It was observed that Bahá’u’lláh asked for His answers and then approved them with ‘very good’.

His wisdom was as astonishing as His knowledge. The Master’s profound wisdom coupled with His all-encompassing, tender love were capable of producing a revolution in the inner life of those with whom He came in contact. This revolution was a ‘change of heart’. Horace Holley became “conscious of a new sympathy for individuals and a new series of ties by which all men are joined in one common destiny.” He discovered that “‘Abdu’l-Bahá restores man to his state a little lower than the angels.”

Source: Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, no. 116 and following, pp. 117–18.

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: abdul-baha).

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