Keys of God's Mercy (Assisted by Selena Styan)

Just like wine His commandments are. Loving kind His commandments are.

Holy breeze. Rose bud trees.

"Observe My commandments for the love of My beauty." (repeat)

"Forsake your palaces and haste ye to gain admittance into His Kingdom.

This, indeed, will profit you both in this world and in the next."

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Chorus: The laws of God are powerful. The laws of God are beautiful.

The laws of God will change the world.

To attract the blessings to our destiny, we must obey the laws of God faithfully.

Lovingly. Joyfully. Thankfully. Faithfully.

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These are the splendors that we prayed for.

These are the brightness of the sun's warmth.

These are the purest pearls. These are the sapphires.

These are the sweet roses. These are the brilliant stars.

These are the keys of God's mercy, treasures for all His creation.

These are the lamps of His providence, the signs of His unending Love ~ , His Love ~ .

His holy Laws are what we need to lead us to our destiny of love ~ , His Love ~ .

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References:

1 Kitab-i-Aqdas, paragraph 4. (see below)

2 Kitab-i-Aqdas, paragraph 83. (see below)

(paragraph 3):

O ye peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My commandments are the lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My creatures. Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation. Were any man to taste the sweetness of the words which the lips of the All-Merciful have willed to utter, he would, though the treasures of the earth be in his possession, renounce them one and all, that he might vindicate the truth of even one of His commandments, shining above the Dayspring of His bountiful care and loving-kindness.

(paragraph 4):

Say: From My laws the sweet-smelling savour of My garment can be smelled, and by their aid the standards of Victory will be planted upon the highest peaks. The Tongue of My power hath, from the heaven of My omnipotent glory, addressed to My creation these words: "Observe My commandments, for the love of My beauty." Happy is the lover that hath inhaled the divine fragrance of his Best-Beloved from these words, laden with the perfume of a grace which no tongue can    describe. By My life! He who hath drunk the choice wine of fairness from the hands of My bountiful favour will circle around My commandments that shine above

the Dayspring of My creation.

(paragraph 5):

Think not that We have revealed unto you a mere code of laws. Nay, rather, We have unsealed the choice Wine with the fingers of might and power. To this beareth witness that which the Pen of Revelation hath revealed. Meditate upon this, O men of insight!

(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 20)

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(paragraph 82)

Ye are but vassals, O kings of the earth! He Who is the King of Kings hath appeared, arrayed in His most wondrous glory, and is summoning you unto Himself, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Take heed lest pride deter you from recognizing the Source of Revelation, lest the things of this world shut you out as by a veil from Him Who is the Creator of heaven. Arise, and serve Him Who is the Desire of all nations, Who hath created you through a word from Him, and ordained you to be, for all time, the emblems of His sovereignty.

(paragraph 83)

By the righteousness of God! It is not Our wish to lay hands on your kingdoms. Our mission is to seize and possess the hearts of men. Upon them the eyes of Baha are fastened. To this testifieth the Kingdom of Names, could ye but comprehend it. Whoso followeth his Lord will renounce the world and all that is therein; how much greater, then, must be the detachment of Him Who holdeth so august a station! Forsake your palaces, and haste ye to gain admittance into His Kingdom. This, indeed, will profit you both in this world and in the next. To this testifieth the Lord of the realm on high, did ye but know it.

(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas,, p. 49)

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The supreme cause for creating the world and all that is therein is for man to know God. In this Day whosoever is guided by the fragrance of the raiment of His mercy to gain admittance into the pristine Abode, which is the station of recognizing the Source of divine commandments and the Dayspring of His Revelation, hath everlastingly attained unto all good. Having reached this lofty station a twofold obligation resteth upon every soul. One is to be steadfast in the Cause with such steadfastness that were all the peoples of the world to attempt to prevent him from turning to the Source of Revelation, they would be powerless to do so. The other is observance of the divine ordinances which have streamed forth from the wellspring of His heavenly-propelled Pen. For man's knowledge of God cannot develop fully and adequately save by observing whatsoever hath been ordained by Him and is set forth in His heavenly Book.

(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 267)

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They that immerse themselves in the ocean of His utterances should at all times have the utmost regard for the divinely-revealed ordinances and prohibitions. Indeed His ordinances constitute the mightiest stronghold for the protection of the world and the safeguarding of its peoples -- a light upon those who acknowledge and recognize the truth, and a fire unto such as turn away and deny.  

(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 50)

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O people of Baha! Each one of the ordinances We have revealed is a mighty stronghold for the preservation of the world of being. Verily, this Wronged One desireth naught but your security and elevation.

(Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 69)