ragrance the
nostrils of this maidservant of God, this yearning prisoner.

Praise be to God that He has enabled you, His well-assured leaf, to
magnify at all times the glory of His gracious countenance, has sustained
your life through the remembrance of His Beauty, has suffered you to rid
yourself of all attachment to any one save Him that you may continually
commune with His love. He has graciously assisted you to remain faithful
to His weighty and irrefutable Testament, to cling tenaciously to the hem
of the robe of the Centre of the Covenant of God, the All-Bountiful, and
to fix your gaze entirely upon the luminous face of 'Him Whom God hath
purposed', the One 'Who hath branched from the pre-existent Root'. In
truth, a myriad praises and thanksgiving should be offered in appreciation
of this outpouring of divine favours and blessings. We implore the Kingdom
of our Lord, the All-Glorious, that He may continually waft upon you His
vitalizing breaths, may enrapture you by the uplifting transports of His
delight, may quicken you through His Holy Spirit and may grant you
confirmation to serve His maidservants and His leaves.

7: May my life be sacrificed for those leaves who ...

(115) May my life be sacrificed for those leaves who are steadfast in the
Covenant of God--they whom the slander of the slanderer hinders not from
holding fast to His divine Testament.

I yield praise to God and offer thanksgiving to the Abha Beloved--may my
spirit be offered up for every atom of the dust of His holy
Threshold--inasmuch as the animating breeze of holiness has wafted from the
rose-garden of your love and fellowship. By this is meant that your
letter--a letter fraught with expressions of loving-kindness that that
loved one of my heart and soul penned with such tender affection--has been
received. It brought immense happiness to the grief-stricken heart of this
yearning prisoner and by perusing its contents my whole being has been
flooded with ineffable gladness. Indeed, the nostrils of my heart have
been perfumed by its sweet savours and the channel of my soul has become
redolent with its vitalizing perfume, inasmuch as from its inner meaning
the fragrances of heavenly praise and adoration were inhaled and from its
words the sweet smell of attraction to the love of God was perceived. In
truth, every letter which serves to magnify the glory of the Ancient
Beauty or to extol the virtues of the Most Great Name is sweeter tha