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Bahíyyih Khánum
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Pages 100-102
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6: O exalted leaf, O distinguished friend! May ...
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O exalted leaf, O distinguished friend! May the glory of God and His praise, His bounty and
blessing rest upon you inasmuch as you have
remained faithful to the Covenant of God and His
Testament.
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Your letter so fine and ornate, a gift from the
Paradise of the love of God, and a dear token of the
celestial Garden of divine knowledge, has been
received, and perfumed with its spiritual and
ethereal fragrance the nostrils of this maidservant of
God, this yearning prisoner.
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Praise be to God that He has enabled you, His
well-assured leaf, to magnify at all times the glory of
His gracious countenance, has sustained your life
through the remembrance of His Beauty, has suffered
you to rid yourself of all attachment to any one
save Him that you may continually commune with
His love. He has graciously assisted you to remain
faithful to His weighty and irrefutable Testament, to
cling tenaciously to the hem of the robe of the
Centre of the Covenant of God, the All-Bountiful,
and to fix your gaze entirely upon the luminous face
of `Him Whom God hath purposed', the One `Who
hath branched from the pre-existent Root'. In truth,
a myriad praises and thanksgiving should be offered
in appreciation of this outpouring of divine favours
and blessings. We implore the Kingdom of our
Lord, the All-Glorious, that He may continually
waft upon you His vitalizing breaths, may enrapture
you by the uplifting transports of His delight, may
quicken you through His Holy Spirit and may grant
you confirmation to serve His maidservants and His
leaves.
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