The Valley of Knowledge

The word 'knowledge' used here is a translation from the original, which is more properly a combination of three words; true understanding, recognition and knowledge. This kind of knowledge is only possible through the perception of the inner eye, and not through merely acquired intellectual fact.

Bahá'u'lláh relates the tale of an anguished lover pursued by those seeking to harm him, but who inevitably lead him to reunion with his beloved. Had the lover been aware of the outcome before the event, he would have seen his pursuers as angels, not of darkness, but of light. Knowledge then, is the perception of the end in the beginning.

But in reality there are no ends and no beginnings. In a saying attributed to the Imám 'Alí, son-in-law and nephew of the prophet Muhammad, he reflects,"Absolute Unity excludeth all attributes."