9: The letter from that spiritual friend has ...
(83) The letter from that spiritual friend has reached the beloved
Guardian, and he is aware of your bitter grieving over the calamitous news
that a most glorious fruit of the Holy Tree, the Most Exalted Leaf, the
Remnant of Baha, has passed away.
This disastrous event has had an effect on the Guardian so terrible that
no pen can describe it nor paper bear the words; for that bright and
surpassingly fair presence, that quintessence of the perfections and
attributes of God, was his close companion, and the consolation of his
heart, so that his separation from her whom the world wronged, and the
ascension of that loved one of the community of love, was unspeakably hard
for him to bear.
She was a divine trust, a treasure of the Kingdom, and she spent all the
days of her precious life as an exile and a captive, and her every
priceless hour was passed under tests and afflictions and ordeals that she
endured at the hands of merciless foes. From early childhood she had her
share of the sufferings of Baha'u'llah, subjected even as He was to
hardships and calamities, and she was as well the partner in sorrows and
tribulations of 'Abdu'l-Baha.
For her there was never a night of peaceful sleep, for her no day when she
found rest, and always, like a moth, would her comely person circle about
the bright candle of the Faith. The words of her mouth were ever to
glorify the Abha Beauty, her only thought and her high purpose were to
proclaim the Cause of God and to protect His Law, while the dearest wish
of her glowing heart was to waft far and wide the sweet breathings of the
Lord.
Her heavenly ways were a model for the people of Baha, and those who dwell
in the pavilions of devotion and the denizens of the Abha Paradise found
in her celestial attributes their prototype and their guide. Glory be to
God, Who created her, fashioned her, called her into being, sent her forth
and revealed her, whose like the eye of the world had never seen.
The Guardian sends his message of consolation to your honoured self and
all the friends, and he says that it is fitting that the righteous should
hold fast to the cord of resignation and acquiescence, and adorn
themselves with the ornaments of faithfulness and servitude, and take for
their example that priceless treasure of the Kingdom.
10: The letter dated 5 August 1932, from that ...
(84) The letter dated 5 August 1932, fro
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