The Master said to Mary Hanford Ford, alluding to the restriction of
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When in Bahá'í history
'Akká (today: Acre, Israel)
The Master said to Mary Hanford Ford, alluding to the restriction of His and His family’s life in ‘Akka: ‘. . . we are all happy because we have the love of God in our hearts. When the heart is full of the love of God it loses consciousness of the body. Then pain is as pleasure, then darkness is as light! If such a one is shut in a prison there are no walls for him, no solitude, he knows not a prison!’
Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 103
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