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Two Kinds of Torment
“But for the people of God separation from God is the greatest torment of all.”
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Know that there are two kinds of torment: subtile and gross. For example, ignorance itself is a torment, but it is a subtile torment; indifference to God is itself a torment; so also are falsehood, cruelty and treachery. All the imperfections are torments, but they are subtile torments. Certainly for an intelligent man death is better than sin, and a cut tongue is better than lying or calumny.
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The other kind of torment is gross—such as penalties, imprisonment, beating, expulsion and banishment. But for the people of God separation from God is the greatest torment of all.
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Source
Some Answered Questions
by 'Abdu'l-Bahá · 1908
Read the original at www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19289/pg19289-images.html