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Most of the people are "asleep"[edit]

"Alas, most of the people are fast asleep."

(Summons of the Lord of Hosts, Lawh-i-Ra'ís, par. 22, p. 170)

Explanation of Bahá'u'lláh saying He was asleep is a metaphor showing how Manifestations are silent like sleeper before Their declaration[edit]

"We come to the explanation of the words of Bahá'u'lláh when He says: "O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon My couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over Me, and taught Me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from Me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing."+F1 [+F1 Extract from the letter to Násiri'd-Dín Sháh.] This is the state of manifestation: it is not sensible; it is an intellectual reality, exempt and freed from time, from past, present and future; it is an explanation, a simile, a metaphor and is not to be accepted literally; it is not a state that can be comprehended by man. Sleeping and waking is passing from one state to another. Sleeping is the condition of repose, and wakefulness is the condition of movement. Sleeping is the state of silence; wakefulness is the state of speech. Sleeping is the state of mystery; wakefulness is the state of manifestation.

"For example, it is a Persian and Arabic expression to say that the earth was asleep, and the spring came, and it awoke; or the earth was dead, and the spring came, and it revived. These expressions are metaphors, allegories, mystic explanations in the world of signification.

"Briefly, the Holy Manifestations have ever been, and ever will be, Luminous Realities; no change or variation takes place in Their essence. Before declaring Their manifestation, They are silent and quiet like a sleeper, and after Their manifestation, They speak and are illuminated, like one who is awake.

(Some Answered Questions, pp. 85-86)

See also[edit]

  • Revelation
  • Manifestation of God#Awareness_of_Their_own_station
  • Dreams
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