f El-ABHA. These signs will surely become manifest
in your faces, these lights will shine within your hearts, the splendor of
oneness will envelop you, and your brows will glitter with rays shining
from the Kingdom of El-ABHA.

O maid-servants of the Merciful! Know that, verily, this day is the day of
teaching, this day is the day of diffusing the fragrances of God, being
severed from aught else save God, attracted to the Word of God, and
clinging to the Covenant of God. There is no work greater than this. Be ye
entirely spiritual, purely brilliant, cut your dependence from any other
mention, thought or purpose, and confine your mentions, thoughts and
occupations to spreading the fragrances of God, and devote your attention
to this great work. By God, the True One, verily, the Sun of Truth will
cast forth its lights in your assemblies and will make you shining lamps,
glittering stars, brilliant signs, and as souls attracted to the Holy
Spirit. This is the great prosperity! This is the manifest light!

Upon you be greeting and praise!

"When you assemble in the meeting of teaching (the..."

When you assemble in the meeting of teaching (the truth), it is incumbent
on you to chant the following supplication and commune:

O God, O God! We are Thy humble and submissive servants, leaves of Thine
exalted and verdant paradise, drops from the basins of Thine abundant
mercy, and scattered particles flying about in Thy shining rays.

O Lord, O Lord, render us successful through Thy conquering power, in that
which Thou lovest and approvest, so that we may become standards of
guidance, signs of Thy Kingdom, the El-ABHA [and that we may] adore Thee,
supplicate before the Kingdom of Thy mercy, beseech Thy realm of might, be
submissive to Thy servants, humble before Thy maid-servants, severed from
aught else save Thee, sincerely turned unto Thy face, aflame with the fire
of Thy love, diffusing Thy fragrances, united in Thy Cause, of one accord
in Thy religion, and firm in Thy Covenant. O God, strengthen us through
the fragrances of Thy sanctity, that we may become sanctified from the
stain of egotism and lust, baptized with Thy Holy Spirit, with the fire of
Thy love and the water of Thy bounty.

Verily, Thou art the Bestower, the Assister, the Confirmer, the
Beneficent, the Merciful!

"O ye verdant and flourishing leaves of the Blessed..."

O ye verdant and flourishing leaves(26) of the Blessed Tree!

Verily,