discernment
5 stories where discernment appears.
The Two Dreams of the Mujtahid of Núr
In His youth, before the Báb had declared His mission, Bahá'u'lláh paused one day to listen to a famous divine of Núr lecturing to his disciples — and resolved in a few words a question none of them could answer. The learned man was left troubled, and then was visited by two dreams that told him, in images he could not mistake, Who the young Nobleman really was.
Miracles: Proofs for the Eyewitness Only
In *Some Answered Questions*, 'Abdu'l-Bahá takes up the question of miracles with characteristic clarity: extraordinary events may have occurred and may yet occur, but they are not the proofs by which a Manifestation of God is finally known. *Miracles are proofs for the eyewitness only*.
Looking for the Key: A Mulla Nasrudin Tale 'Abdu'l-Bahá Used
'Abdu'l-Bahá would sometimes draw, in His talks with friends, on the great Persian-Turkish folk humour of Mulla Nasrudin — including the famous tale of a man searching for his key in the wrong place because the light there was better, and the searching lesson He drew from it.
The Wise Man and the Fool: A Story 'Abdu'l-Bahá Told
Among the parables 'Abdu'l-Bahá told to the friends was the brief story of a wise man and a fool who walked the same road in opposite directions — and the question of which of them was in fact going somewhere.
Trust No Man Save Him Whose Breast Hath Been Dilated
An early Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá to a Western servant of God, preserved in *Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Abbas* (1909), gives a careful warning about the kind of association into which the Bahá'í community should be drawn — and the patient discernment by which trust should be extended.