Bahá'í Faith

Spiritual Love

Love is the most powerful force in creation; the development of genuine love for God, for humanity, and for all existence is the highest spiritual achievement.

Bahá'u'lláh's mystical writings are suffused with the language of divine love. Love is not merely sentiment but a cosmic force — the motivating power behind all creation and the ultimate goal of spiritual development. To love God completely transforms one's relationship to everything else: self, others, work, and the world.

O Son of Man! Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee.

Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words

Bahá'í love theology draws on and synthesizes Islamic Sufi, Jewish mystical, and Christian agape traditions of divine love.

Hidden Words