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(Maryborough, Victoria: Bahá’í Publications Australia,1991), ‘Living the Life,’ vol. 2, p. 24, no. 1334.89 So Much Life Is WastedBahá’u’lláh, The Hidden Words, from the Persian, no. 45,p. 38.90 Our Sorry VoicesIbid. no. 19, pp. 27-8.An allusion to the Islamic rúz-i-alast, the day of the primordialCovenant (Koran 7:171, trans. Rodwell). ThisCovenant, ‘when God addressed future humanity withthe words: alastu bi-rabbikum, “Am I not your Lord?”, towhich they answered: “Yes, we testify to that”, impliesthat they, acknowledging God as the eternal Lord, accepted,logically, their role as God’s servants until theyare asked on the Day of Judgment whether they had remainedaware of God’s being the one and only Lordwhom they had to obey’ (Annemarie Schimmel, Decipheringthe Signs of God. A Phenomenological Approachto Islam [Albany, N.Y.: State University of New YorkPress, 1994], p. 179).92 Today My Heart Is DesertedBahá’u’lláh, The Hidden Words, from the Persian, no. 28,pp. 31-2.93 Your Hand in My Hand‘“Before choosing a wife a man must think soberly”.Talk by Abdul-Baha to Mirza Ahmad Sohrab on December22nd, 1918, the day before his departure from theHoly Land,’ in Star of the West (Baha’i News Service,Chicago), vol. 11, no. 1 (21 mar. 1920), p. 20.300