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NOTES 1. the sweet-smelling savour of My garment # 4 |
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This is an allusion to the story of Joseph in the Qur’án and
the Old Testament, in which Joseph’s garment, brought by
his brothers to Jacob, their father, enabled Jacob to identify
his beloved long-lost son. The metaphor of the fragrant
“garment” is frequently used in the Bahá’í Writings to refer
to the recognition of the Manifestation of God and His
Revelation.
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Bahá’u’lláh, in one of His Tablets, describes Himself
as the “Divine Joseph” Who has been “bartered away” by the
heedless “for the most paltry of prices”. The Báb, in the
Qayyúmu’l-Asmá, identifies Bahá’u’lláh as the “true Joseph”
and forecasts the ordeals that He would endure at the hands
of His treacherous brother (see note 190). Likewise, Shoghi
Effendi draws a parallel between the intense jealousy
which the preeminence of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had aroused in His
half-brother, Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, and the deadly envy
“which the superior excellence of Joseph had kindled in the
hearts of his brothers”.
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