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To be God's lover! That is the sole object of life for the Baha'i. To have God as his closest companion and most intimate friend, his Peerless Beloved, in Whose Presence is fullness of joy! And to love God means to love everything and everybody, for all are of God. The real Baha'i will be the perfect lover. He will love everyone with a pure heart, fervently. He will hate no one. He will despise no one, for he will have learned to see the Face of the Beloved in every face, and to find His traces everywhere. His love will know no limit of sect, nation, class or race. Baha'u'llah says: - "Of old it hath been revealed: 'Love of one's country is an element of the Faith of God.' The Tongue of Grandeur hath .. in the day of His manifestation proclaimed: 'It is not his to boast who loveth his country, but it is his who loveth the world.'" - Tablet of the World. And again: - "Blessed is he who prefers his brother before himself; such an one is of the people of Baha." - Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Words of Paradise
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