Happiness and Health
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When in Bahá'í history
New York (today: New York City, USA)
To Mrs Smith, a new Bahá’í, who belonged to a distinguished Philadelphia family and who was suffering with a headache, the Master said, “You must be happy always. You must be counted among the people of joy and happiness and must be adorned with divine morals. In a large measure happiness keeps our health while depression of spirit begets diseases. The substance of eternal happiness is spirituality and divine morality, which has no sorrow to follow it.”
Source: Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, “Happiness and health”, p. 129. The meeting took place in New York on 19 June 1912, as recorded in Mahmúd’s Diary, where the Master also gives Mrs Smith the name Tábandih.
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