BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

184 Baháâuâlláh and the New Erafrom ignorance and error and the ills that inevitably flow fromthem. If he wishes health or wealth for himself, it is in order thathe may serve the Kingdom, and if physical health and wealth aredenied him, he accepts his lot with “radiant acquiescence,” wellknowing that there is a right wisdom in whatever befalls him inthe Path of God.‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance; they aresent by the Divine Mercy for our perfecting. When grief andsorrow come, then will a man remember his Father Who isin Heaven, Who is able to deliver him from his humiliations.The more a man is chastened, the greater is the harvest ofspiritual virtues shown forth by him.At first sight it may seem very unjust that the innocent shouldsuffer for the guilty, but ‘Abdu’l-Bahá assures us that the injusticeis only apparent and that, in the long run, perfect justiceprevails. He writes:—As to the subject of babes and children and weak oneswho are afflicted by the hands of the oppressors ... for thosesouls there is a recompense in another world ... that sufferingis the greatest mercy of God. Verily that mercy of the Lordis far better than all the comfort of this world and the growthand development appertaining to this place of mortality.