and fragrance.

Those souls who have attained to faith, if they be protected and preserved
from tests and keep firm and steadfast, the divine confirmations will
surround them from all directions.***

I beg of God that thou wilt be confirmed with the love of God in all
conditions. I beg of God that thou mayest be so assisted in serving the
Holy Threshold that all thy family will be astonished and amazed, and will
glory and honor.

"O ye shining Assembly!..."

O ye shining Assembly!(113)

The meeting that you organized hath attracted the divine gaze and the
subject of your conversation was the divine commemoration. A ray from the
Kingdom of Abha fell upon that assemblage and that meeting was adorned,
and a number of souls, supplicants to God, were gathered in that meeting.
If this assembly continues as it is befitting and behooving, great results
will thereby appear and conduce to the illumination of those parts,
spiritual progress will ensue, the lights of the Sun of Truth will shine,
hearts will be illumined, eyes will become seeing, ears become hearing,
the lukewarm (or withdrawn ones) become aflame, the inanimate (or numbed
ones) will be enkindled in soul and an ecstasy will come to all by which
those present will be astonished.

I supplicate to and invoke before the Threshold of Oneness, saying:

"O Thou Creator! Preserve and protect Thou that assembly from grave (or
general) tests and keep them firm and constant in the Covenant and
Testament. Confer upon them such steadfastness as will enable them to
withstand doubts and root our the foundation of calumnious rumors; for
some person hath appeared (or arisen) with the utmost falsehood, in those
parts, and publisheth false reports in some newspapers."

"O ye members of the shining assembly! Each one..."

O ye members of the shining assembly! Each one of you must resist doubts
(or false rumors) in those parts like unto a great barrier, until the
invisible confirmations may appear and merciful assistance may become
manifest. May your souls be cheered!

"O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!..."

O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God!

Verily, I read thy letter of thanksgiving to God, for He hath illumined
thy heart with the light of the Mightiest Guidance, dilated thy breast
through the fragrance of the garden of His Kingdom, the Abha, caused thee
to speak His praise in that remote and extensive country, and