ng the praise of
my Lord, and I smiled with all cheerfulness, joy and gladness when I found
that ye were beseeching God and supplicating before the Kingdom of God. I
beseech God to guide some of those who have given themselves to the Word
of God, while they know not the Word. And I beg of God to give insight to
every heedless one, so that he may witness the signs of his Mighty Lord in
this great century wherein the Lord is glorified for the bounties and
gifts which He hath bestowed on all the horizons [i.e., regions] through
His Ancient Grace.

Verily I wrote an answer to the letter of ........ and enclose it in this
letter.

O maid-servant of God! By God the True One, verily Abdul-Baha invokes God
to strengthen thee through the mightiest power, so that thou mayest become
a star of guidance in Green Acre, to diffuse the fragrances of God, to
blow forth the spirit of God, to summon people to the Word of god, and may
speeches pour forth from thy pure lips as a torrent which rapidly pours
down from the loftiest mountains!

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

O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of the Garden of the Covenant
and art speaking the praise of the Orb of the Universe!

Know thou, verily, I read thy letter which expressed the commemoration of
thy Lord, the Great, and indicated that the fire of the love of god is
ablaze in thy heart and in the soul of the sincere ones. Truly I say unto
thee, verily thy magnificent letter was as one of the melodies of the
birds of holiness in the wonderful garden. Verily the hearts of the
Supreme Concourse are dilated with the songs which thou hast warbled on
the Blessed Tree in the Exalted Paradise.

O maid-servant of God! Verily Abdul-Baha was with you in Green Acre in his
spirit, soul and in all of his spiritual grades, and he was your companion
in your meetings and was bearing unto you, with his spiritual tongue, the
glad-tidings of the divine splendors which shall be poured forth upon you
from the Kingdom of God, in a short time.

O maid-servant of God! Be rejoiced at this glad-tidings whereby the hearts
of the people of the Kingdom of El-Abha are moved with joy. Verily I
beseech God to make Green Acre as the paradise of El-Abha, so that the
melodies of the nightingale of sanctity may be heard from it and that the
chanting of the verses of unity may be raised therein; to cause the clouds
of the great gift to pour upon it the rains falli