Baha'i Marriage

Love's the kindly light shining out of heaven.

Love's the breath of life to all our souls unending.

Love's the pouring spring of spiritual delights.

Love's the brilliant splendor of every awesome night.

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Chorus: We are one, in God's Love.... We are in love, in God's Love.

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Bridge: Wedded round the sun, like two bright moons of light.

We'll cast our beams of oneness, creating a new life. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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Love is the true cause of all God's revelations.

Love is the true secret of all God's dispensations.

Love's the vital bond inherent in creation.

Love's the greatest means of endless celebration. (Chorus)

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Bridge 2: Like two great seas let loose, our tenderness will surge.

Boundless is our treasure, we'll sing like nightingales. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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Love's the Holy Spirit; Love's the All-Merciful.

Love's the eternal breath that vivifies our souls.

Love's the surest means of true felicity.

We are true companions with perfect loyalty. (Chorus)

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Bridge 3: United heart and soul, together through all time.

We'll drink His perfect guidance. It is the choicest wine. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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Love is the assurance that every soul will learn.

Love's the precious link that uniteth God with man.

Our union will be splendor, and sweet affinity,

Affection and devotion, our lives in harmony. (Chorus)

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Bridge 4: Intoning all our joy, like two doves in one nest.

Attracting God's bestowals, abiding in His bliss. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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We'll attain the ideal love; it's in our destiny.

Enjoy eternal life in a glorious paradise.

Our thoughts thy will be lofty, our ideals luminous,

Our hearts like unto stars of love and beauty's heaven. (Chorus)

Bridge 5: Our souls, a dawning place for the Sun of Reality,

Radiant with grace, unfolding mysteries of His Love, for His Love, loving His love, for His love.

God's love just shines in heart and mind.

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O Thou the Generous, the Precious, the Bestower.

Illuminate the mind of my spiritual partner.

Cheer her tender breast by the light of knowing Thee.

Attract her loving heart unto Thy bounteousness. (Chorus)

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Bridge 6: Let her spirit soar with Thy love's sweetest wine.

Grant her Thy compassion, make her an angel of Thine. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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O Thou, the Powerful, Thou, the All-Sufficing.

Adorn my darling wife with the dawning of Thy splendor.

Gladden her radiant face with the wonders of Thy kingdom.

Let her affection soar in service as she sings. (Chorus)

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Bridge 7: Our hearts, they will be spacious, as all the universe.

Make our souls aglow with the fire of rebirth. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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Thou Most Great Protector; O Thou the Healing One.

O grant her Thy well-being; accord her perfect Love.

Help this daughter of Thine, exalt her in both worlds.

With Thy brilliant Mysteries, reveal to her Thy Will. (Chorus)

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Bridge 8: Give her close communion with the Concourse from on High.

Confirm her in Thy mercy to joyously arise. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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O let my bride drink deep of the cup of ecstasy.

Listen, my sweet Lord, as she supplicates to Thee.

Cause her to be cherished at Thy holy threshold.

Graciously aid her like a rose to unfold. (Chorus)

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Bridge 9: Endow her with fragrance and strength; keep her firm and steadfast.

Warbling melodies, in tones of happiness. (Chorus)

Our love just shines like bright sunshine.

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We'll enter the fortress of well-being and salvation.

Bring forth coral, pearls, through true investigation.

We'll be as banners flying, gleaming in the sun.

Our union will bear fruit upon the tree of love. (Chorus)

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Bridge 10: We'll soar through the worlds of God; we'll reach the brightest heavens.

Fulfilling all our dreams, through love's eternal theme. (Chorus)

God's love just shines in heart and mind.

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Reference:

"Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God's holy Dispensation,

the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings.

Love is heaven's kindly light, the Holy Spirit's eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul.

Love is the cause of God's revelation unto man,

the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things.

Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next.

Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man,

that assureth the progress of every illumined soul.

Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle,

the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world,

the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms.

Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe.

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind,

the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world,

and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

Whatsoever people is graciously favoured therewith by God, its name shall surely be magnified and extolled by the Concourse from on high, by the company of angels, and the denizens of the Abha Kingdom. And whatsoever people turneth its heart away from this Divine Love -- the revelation of the Merciful -- shall err grievously, shall fall into despair, and be utterly destroyed. That people shall be denied all refuge, shall become even as the vilest creatures of the earth, victims of degradation and shame.

O ye beloved of the Lord! Strive to become the manifestations of the love of God, the lamps of divine guidance shining amongst the kindreds of the earth with the light of love and concord.

All hail to the revealers of this glorious light!"

(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 27 )