Wine

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Explanation of Symbolic meaning

See Note 2 of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas

Notes

• See also Notes on the "Choice Wine"

The wine mentioned in Tablets and Persian poetry is symbolical only; very necessary to tell the children this

"The wine mentioned in the Tablets has undoubtedly a spiritual meaning for in the book of Aqdas we are definitely forbidden to take not only wine, but every thing that deranges the mind. In poetry as a whole wine is taken to have a different connotation than the ordinary intoxicating liquid. We see it thus used by the Persian Poets such as Sa'di and Umar Khayam and Hafiz to mean that element which nears man to his divine beloved, which makes him forget his material self so as better to seek his spiritual desires. It is very necessary to tell the children what this wine means so that they may not confuse it with the ordinary wine."

(On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Divine Guidance (vol 2), pp. 9-10)