City of Radiant Acquiescence

City of Radiant Acquiescence by Baha'u'llah
Translated by Juan Cole and read by Alison Elizabeth Marshall
Background music and audio mixing by Daniel Lehtovirta
Video editing by Laura Angelica Foster
The text of the tablet can be viewed by enabling subtitles, and found at: whoisbahaullah....
Introduction to the tablet: whoisbahaullah....
City of Radiant Acquiesence is a commentary on the state of contentment with God. In paragraphs four and five, Baha'u'llah explains that radiant acquiescence has infinite stages, but he confines himself to describing three aspects of it: contentment with God, contentment with oneself and contentment with the believers. Further on, Baha'u'llah gives a remarkable summation of the essential reciprocal nature of radiant acquiescence: that our love for God is God's good pleasure with us and our good pleasure with God. Baha'u'llah emphasises that this is the religious path that never changes. All the prophets teach it. It is a trust that God has "deposited in the hearts of the sincere" and it suffices us "above all else".
In Baha'u'llah's final comments on radiant acquiescence, he points to the ever-changing nature of this physical world and asks: given this constant change, what is it that people can rely on? If they rely on anything in this world, then they are like a person who is "resting in the shade of a tree". It is ephemeral and will one day pass away. He exhorts people to put their confidence in what is eternal. He explains that the contradictions in the physical world have been created to remind us of our impermanence, so that we might wake up to what is in our best interests.
The final section of the tablet consists of a long prayer.

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