ld of Baha'u'llah! Thy ...
229: O sincere servant of the True One! I hear thou ...
230: O respected personage! Thy second letter dated ...
231: O thou blossom on the Tree of Life! Happy art ...
232: As to President Wilson, the fourteen principles ...
233: O ye faithful friends, O ye sincere servants of ...
234: O thou who art enraptured by the sweet breathings ...
235: O God, my God! Illumine the brows of Thy true ...
236: O Thou, my God, Who guidest the seeker to the ...
237: Whoso reciteth this prayer with lowliness and ...

REFERENCES TO THE QUR'AN

In footnotes referring to the Qur'an the surihs have been numbered
according to the original, whereas the verse numbers are those in
Rodwell's translation which differ sometimes from those of the Arabic.

1: O PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! THE SUN OF TRUTH HATH ...

O peoples of the world! The Sun of Truth hath risen to illumine the whole
earth, and to spiritualize the community of man. Laudable are the results
and the fruits thereof, abundant the holy evidences deriving from this
grace. This is mercy unalloyed and purest bounty; it is light for the
world and all its peoples; it is harmony and fellowship, and love and
solidarity; indeed it is compassion and unity, and the end of foreignness;
it is the being at one, in complete dignity and freedom, with all on
earth.

The Blessed Beauty saith: 'Ye are all the fruits of one tree, the leaves
of one branch.' Thus hath He likened this world of being to a single tree,
and all its peoples to the leaves thereof, and the blossoms and fruits. It
is needful for the bough to blossom, and leaf and fruit to flourish, and
upon the interconnection of all parts of the world-tree, dependeth the
flourishing of leaf and blossom, and the sweetness of the fruit.

For this reason must all human beings powerfully sustain one another and
seek for everlasting life; and for this reason must the lovers of God in
this contingent world become the mercies and the blessings sent forth by
that clement King of the seen and unseen realms. Let them purify their
sight and behold all humankind as leaves and blossoms and fruits of the
tree of being. Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a
kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love,
consideration, thoughtful help. Let them see no one as their enemy, or as
wishing them ill, but think of all humankind as their friends; regarding
the alien as an intimate, the