Guidance on Family Life

A Spiritual Home

Source: To Be Married by Wendi Momen

Stressing the importance of a spiritual home, `Abdu’l-Baha gave this advice:

“First one should order one’s own domestic affairs, then attend to one’s business with the public… Blessed be the soul that shineth with the light of trustworthiness among the people and becometh a sign of perfection amidst all men.”

Further He Stated, “Make your home a haven of rest and peace. Be hospitable, and let the doors of your house be open to the faces of friends and strangers. Welcome every guest with radiant grace and let each feel that it is his own home… 

O beloved of God, may your home be a vision of the paradise of Abha, so that whosoever enters there may feel the essence of purity and harmony, and cry out from the heart: Here is the home of love! Here is the palace of love! Here is the nest of love! Here is the garden of love!”

Again He states, “This is a spiritual house, the home of the spirit. There is no discord here; all is love and unity. When souls are gathered together in this way, the divine bestowals descend.”