Some Answered Questions

Excerpt from Some Answered Questions: Collected and Translated From the Persian of Abdu'l-Baha

'I have given to you my tired moments', were the words of Abdu'l-Baha as he rose from table after answering one of my questions. As it was on this day, so it continued; between the hours of work, his fatigue would find relief in renewed activity; occasionally he was able to speak at length; bat often, even though the subject might require more time, he would be called away alter a fair moments; again, days and even weeks would pass, in which he had no opportunity of instructing me. But I could well be patient, for I had always before me the greater lesson-the lesson of his personal life.

During my several visits to Acca, these answers were written down in Persian while Abdul-Baha spoke, not with a view to publication, but simply that I might have them for future study. At first they had to be adapted to the verbal translation of the interpreter; and later, when I had acquired a slight knowledge of Persian, to my limited vocabulary.

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