I read your letter, which expressed your spiritual attraction to
the fragrances of God, your service to the Cause of God, your firmness in
the Covenant of God, your joy in this blessed and great day, your union
and harmony in the religion of God, your happiness in diffusing the light
of the knowledge of God, and your work in the Vineyard of God--the Paradise
of El-ABHA. Such prosperity, success, blessing and salvation behooveth one
like you! Blessed are ye, O ye stars who are beaming with the light of the
love of God! Blessed are ye, O ye lamps lighted with the fire of the love
of God! Blessed ye are, O ye who are attracted to the Kingdom of God!
Glad-tidings be unto you, O you who are severed from aught else save God!
Blessed ye are, O ye pure and chaste ones! Glad-tidings be unto you
through the gift of the Covenant, from the light of which all regions are
illuminated! Be rejoiced that the lights of the Sun of Truth are shining
forth unto all parts; be gladdened at the gifts of your Lord, which have
surrounded all the universe; dilate your breasts by chanting the verses of
God, and console your eyes by witnessing the bounties of the Supreme
Concourse.

By God, the True One, verily, the angels of heaven praise you every morn
and eve from the loftiest apex, and announce to you a favor which will
surely appear as clear and lucid as the sun in mid-day. Then your faces
will shine with a light which will gleam forth unison and harmony, in
diffusing the fragrances of God, in preaching the Beauty of El-ABHA, and
promoting the word of God. Let each one of you be attracted to the love of
the other, so that ye may become as fountains flowing from one source,
stars beaming with one life, myrtles verdant and flourishing by the
abundance of one rain. By this your hearts will be purified, your
consciences illumined, your souls made clear, your banners hoisted, and ye
will become signs of guidance among the maid-servants, standards of
chastity and piety throughout all the nations of the earth, and the
appearances of the gifts of your Lord among women.

Verily, I implore God to gaze upon you with the eye of His mercy, to raise
you through a godlike power, to move you by the breezes of His glory, to
make you fluent in irrefutable and divine proofs and arguments, to sever
you from the world and all therein, to purify and sanctify you from every
material grade, and enable you to diffuse the bounties of the Divine
Worlds.

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