Merciful, the Compassionate,
will surround you from all sides.

"O ye sincere ones! O ye firm ones! O ye heralds of..."

O ye(146) sincere ones! O ye firm ones! O ye heralds of the Kingdom of
God!

Fly away with joy! Flutter in the open of the Kingdom! Spread the wings of
sanctity in those districts and lands, so that the shadow of the King of
the Kingdom may be stretched over those climes and the fragrances of God
be diffused in those tracts and in those vast and extensive regions.

By the Lord of the Kingdom! If one arise to promote the Word of God with a
pure heart, overflowing with the love of God and severed from the world,
the Lord of Hosts will assist him with such a power as will penetrate the
core of the existent beings.

As to ye, be rejoiced, O ye children of the Kingdom of God! Your faces
will surely become illuminated, your brows shining, your breasts dilated
with an abundant bounty and refreshed with a rain pouring from the clouds
of the gift of God. You will find yourselves as souls for the temple of
the contingent world and as arteries pulsating in the body of the
universe. Your faces will shine with the light of favor throughout all
environments.

Make your feet firm; withstand the creeds (or multitudes); chant the Book;
and explain mysteries through an inspiration on the part of your Exalted
Lord, the possessor of glory and honor!

"O ye two revered persons, ye servants in the vineyard..."

O ye two(147) revered persons, ye servants in the vineyard of God!

Verily, I read your letter and was informed of its contents filled with
spiritual attractions and thanked God--glorified is He!--for His grace and
His merciful bestowals.

It behooveth you to be the first assistant to the Word of God, the first
servant of the Cause of God and the first one to withstand the spreaders
(of false rumors) who say that which they know not, who calumniate God,
well knowing that they are calumniators and that they, themselves, have
contrived the thing for their own sakes, and evil is that which they do.

Remember what the Pharisees published concerning Jesus, attributed to Him
and said about Him and how they oppressed Him until they paraded Him in
Jerusalem in such a form as made the angels of sanctity to weep in the
Sublime Kingdom. They put on His head a crown of thistles; nay, more, they
cast dust in His face--into a face whereby the heaven and the earth is
illuminated! They turned their backs