As to Paradise: It is a reality and there can be no doubt
about it, and now in this world it is realized through love of Me and My
good-pleasure. Whosoever attaineth unto it God will aid him in this world
below, and after death He will enable him to gain admittance into Paradise
whose vastness is as that of heaven and earth. Therein the Maids of glory and
holiness will wait upon him in the daytime and in the night season, while the
day-star of the unfading beauty of his Lord will at all times shed its radiance
upon him and he will shine so brightly that no one shall bear to gaze at him.
Such is the dispensation of Providence, yet the people are shut out by a
grievous veil.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
