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The Rhine and Berlin warning

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas · Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 90, complete paragraph

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Kitab-i-Aqdas; first authorized English translation 1992, official Bahai Reference Library; Bahá’u’lláh. Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 90, complete paragraph

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Kitab-i-Aqdas paragraph 90, final sentence

And We hear the lamentations of Berlin, though she be today in conspicuous glory.
O banks of the Rhine! We have seen you covered with gore, inasmuch as the swords of retribution were drawn against you; and ye shall have another turn. And We hear the lamentations of Berlin, though she be today in conspicuous glory.

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  1. around 1873Bahá’u’lláh records the Rhine and Berlin warning Prophecy given or recorded

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