The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes.
word definition:
justice: the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness. / the moral principle determining just conduct. (I chose those definitions of justice as I think they are mostly relevant to this Hidden Word.)
confide: to have full trust; have faith.
loving-kindness: tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
so after being told to have a pure, kindly and radiant heart, the next step is in how to act - being given free will, we can choose to act morally righteous, doing the right thing. seeing with our own eyes, knowing through our own knowledge, we must independently investigate for the truth, without relying upon others or following old traditions.
I find it interesting that justice is God's gift to us, and a sign of His kindness and affection for us (more on that in next Hidden Word). if we equal this to adminitions of our behavior, we might even say that justice leads to liberty:
Say: True liberty consisteth in man's submission unto My commandments, little as ye know it. Were men to observe that which We have sent down unto them from the Heaven of Revelation, they would, of a certainty, attain unto perfect liberty. (Kitáb-i-Aqdas, verse 125)
there are probably lots more of interesting points to be made here, do you have any thoughts?
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