Some Ans. Questions 1908 by -'Abdu'l-Bahá- 1 Para

For example, it is a Persian and Arabic expression to say that the earth was asleep, and the spring came, and it awoke; or the earth was dead, and the spring came, and it revived. These expressions are metaphors, allegories, mystic explanations in the world of signification (85:4)

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