“One cannot imagine on the sea anything but discomfort. One
cannot have all the necessities as in land travel. The mariners are obliged to
live thus but by their services they come nearer to God, and God rewards
actions performed on the land and on the sea but He grants a two-fold
recompense for those services accomplished by one of the servants on the sea,
because their work is more arduous.” (The Báb, “Le Bayán Persan,” vol. 2, pp.
155-156, translated to French by A.L.M. Nicolas)(Footnotes to chapter 7
provided by Shoghi Effendi)
