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Regarding a hypothetical woman who has successively outlived seven husbands, before finally dying herself, they ask: “In the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her.” 

In the compilation of an individual Bahá’í’s notes on talks ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gave while he was visiting Paris, France in 1911, called Paris Talks,‘ Abdu’l-Bahá seems to discuss rituals in relationship to two primary concerns.

God, our loving Heavenly Father, wants us to find happiness and joy.

I was a little older when I first heard the term “afterlife.” I did not equate it with the same heaven my mother had described. 

I believe in the afterlife because I think God has “planted eternity in the human heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11) and so it makes sense to me that there are locations to live out that eternity.

When discussing the concept of an afterlife, we talk a lot about heaven, but we also talk a lot about hell too and what it means to be condemned.