It can be very lonely being a Bahai.
I wish you much strength and love,
Janine van rooij
To be LONELY is almost essential in being a Bahai
Thou seest this Wronged One LONELY in exile: Where are the hosts of the
heaven of Thy Command, O Sovereign of the worlds?
(Baha'u'llah: Baha'i Prayers (US), Page: 217)
This Youth is LONELY in a desolate land: Where is the rain of Thy
heavenly grace, O Bestower of the worlds?
O Supreme Pen, We have heard Thy most sweet call in the eternal realm:
Give Thou ear unto what the Tongue of Grandeur uttereth, O Wronged One of
the worlds!
Were it not for the cold, how would the heat of Thy words prevail, O
Expounder of the worlds?
Were it not for calamity, how would the sun of Thy patience shine, O
Light of the worlds?
Lament not because of the wicked. Thou wert created to bear and
endure, O Patience of the worlds.
(Baha'u'llah: Baha'i Prayers (US), Pages: 219-220)
Again I was crucified for having unveiled to men's eyes the hidden gems of
Thy glorious unity, for having revealed to them the wondrous signs of Thy
sovereign and everlasting power. How bitter the humiliations heaped upon
Me, in a subsequent age, on the plain of Karbila! How LONELY did I feel
amidst Thy people! To what a state of helplessness I was reduced in that
land!
(Baha'u'llah: Gleanings, Page: 89)
Through the revelation of Thy grace, O Lord, Thou didst call Me into being
on a night such as this,(1) and lo, I am now lonely and forsaken in a
mountain.
(The Bab: Selections from the Bab, Page: 173)
O Lord! Strengthen my back, enable me to serve Thee with the utmost
endeavour, and leave me not to myself, LONELY and helpless in these regions.
(`Abdu'l-Baha: Tablets of the Divine Plan, Page: 46)
How can my lonely pen, so utterly inadequate to glorify so exalted a station
[that of the Sister of 'Abdu'l-Baha], so impotent to portray the experiences
of so sublime a life, so disqualified to recount the blessings she showered
upon me since my earliest childhood - how can such a pen repay the great
debt of gratitude and love that I owe her whom I regarded as my chief
sustainer, my most affectionate comforter, the joy and inspiration of my
life?
(Shoghi Effendi: Baha'i Administration, Page: 187)
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