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"If you arise in accord with the exhortations and commands..."
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[The following Tablet as received bore no opening line of address. The Tablet is to husband and wife.]
If you arise in accord with the exhortations and commands
of the Blessed Perfection - may my life be a
sacrifice to His beloved ones! - before long agreeable
results will be obtained, the great newspapers of the
world will all engage in praising you and such activity
will be brought about in the West as will increase the
motion and activity in the East.
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You have written concerning the meetings in Cambridge
and Boston. The more such meetings increase,
it will increase the diffusing of the fragrances.
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The news concerning the unity, harmony, affinity and
oneness of the maid-servants of the Merciful One and
the friends of God in those parts, imparted the utmost
joy and happiness (to me). This indicated that the
Cause will before long yield results in that country.
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Convey on my behalf respectful greeting to the
favored and attracted maid-servant of God, the daughter
of the Kingdom, Miss .........
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O thou .........! Exhort thou all the believers
and say: "The Beauty of Abha - may my life be a
sacrifice to the dust of His footsteps! - hath opened a
great door before your faces and bestowed a weighty
gift upon you. We must know the value of this and
sacrifice ourselves entirely; nay, we must forget ourselves.
We must wish for no rest and seek no joy. We
must seek no name nor fame, no ease, amplitude nor
convenience; nay, we must sacrifice everything in order
that we may be clad in the kingdom of immortality!"
[Literally, in order that we may emerge our head out of the bosom of the kingdom of immortality.]
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The letter which thou hast written was received and
its perusal brought me joy, for it indicated that you are
extremely pleased with the beloved ones (i.e., men)
and the maid-servants of God in Persia. forsooth,
their love is heartfelt and real; they are devoted in
service with all their soul and they are attracted by the
love of the friends with all their heart. If any occasion
befalleth and cases of tests come up, they will
sacrifice their precious lives for the sake of the friends
and freely give up all their possessions.
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Briefly, O thou dear maid-servant of God! Praise
be to God! thou didst see with thine own eyes, thou
didst hear with thine own ears and thou didst comprehend
with thine own heart. Thou didst witness the
qualities and the life and conduct of Abdul-Baha and
thou didst behold the love and kindness, faith and assurance
of the friends of Persia. Thou didst see the exaltation
(or progress) of the Cause of God and thou didst
test the general character (or qualities) of the friends;
and thou didst know with perfect assurance that the
Cause of Baha'o'llah is the means for the quickening
of the world and for the extraordinary progress of mankind;
that it hath quickened Persia and hath removed the
darkness of ignorance, that the friends are kind unto all
the people of the world and self-sacrificing servants
of mankind.
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