become
realized, thou wilt find the utmost joy and wilt be assisted in visiting
the holy Threshold.
"O thou who art uttering the mention of God!..."
O thou who art uttering the mention of God!
Know, that the pure hearts upon which the mysteries of the Kingdom of God
are printed and pictured, are reflectors one upon another and thus the
once can discover the secrets of the other, because such hearts are only
mirrors confronting each other on which the secrets of unity, affinity and
concord are printed and reflected. Accordingly, it would be possible that
a certain servant of the servants of the Merciful might discover a
treasured mystery or a preserved sign, whatever his shortcomings or
defects might be; yet we do indeed rely upon God the Forgiver. I
supplicate Him to deliver us from the pangs of lust and its dangers and
from the destructive conditions of passion.
Verily, I do testify that thine heart is moved by the fragrance of the
love of God, that thy memory is a fountain overflowing with the water of
the knowledge of God. Therefore, finish the poem which thou art composing
and send it here, that through reading it the breast of the believers may
be refreshed and dilated with joy.
"O thou who art kindled by the fire of the Love of God!..."
O thou who art kindled by the fire of the Love of God!
Rejoice through the fragrance of God and be attracted by the melodies of
the holy birds in the garden of the gifts of God! Verily, I, with great
humbleness and submissiveness before the abundance of His mercy, do roll
my face upon the dust to make thee a sign of unity and a gift of mercy,
that thou mayest be, in all aspects and cases, near to the Kingdom of God.
Blessed thou art for this great abundance! Glad-tidings unto thee because
of this manifest light! By the life of God! a single drop of the ocean of
His love is more profitable unto thee than the earth and that which is
thereupon, because this will vanish and perish, but that drop of love will
remain eternally and everlastingly in the worlds of God.
"O thou dear servant of God!..."
O thou dear servant of God!
During the time of thy visit here the meanings of the words of Christ,
"Let the dead bury their dead," was explained to thee. Those souls who are
not vivified and attracted by the Holy Spirit, are accounted among the
dead, because their souls are deprived of the breath of the Holy Spirit,
and these persons after physic
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