rts to the world aloft, and cup our hands and
supplicate our matchless Loved One, and urgently entreat Him, saying:

O Thou Kind Bestower, O Nourisher of our souls and hearts!

We have no aim, except to walk Thy path; we have no wish, except to bring
Thee joy. Our souls are united, and our hearts are welded, each to each.
In offering Thee our thanks and praise, in following Thy ways and soaring
in Thy skies, we are all one.

We are helpless, stand Thou by us, and give us strength.

Thou art the Protector, the Provider, the Kind.

43: Indeed, you have adorned yourself with the ...

(166) Indeed, you have adorned yourself with the qualifications of
faithfulness and are striving to fulfil the requirements of servitude to
the Abha Threshold. You have been inebriated with the wine of the love of
God, have quaffed your fill at the banquet of loyalty to His Faith and
have caused the seekers of truth, those that are sore athirst for the
life-giving waters of His grace, to drink from the heavenly stream of true
understanding. This was indeed most fitting and appropriate. For in this
grievous calamity, this distressing bereavement, the best consolation and
solace that the spiritual souls could offer is to dedicate themselves to
the service of the Cause, to diffuse widely the sweet savours of holiness,
to become wanderers in the path of that heavenly Best-Beloved, to let
their whole beings burn and melt, and be enkindled with the fire of His
love. Such indeed is the effective remedy, the most potent cure for this
irreparable agony, for this aching of the heart and soul. There is no
other remedy.

Praise be to God that the effusions of celestial aid from the Abha Kingdom
are unceasing and the outpourings of heavenly grace from the Concourse on
High uninterrupted. You should not think that your memory may ever, even
for a moment, be removed from the minds of these oppressed ones, or that
your remembrance may fade from the hearts of these exiled servants. The
Abha Beauty bears me witness and 'Abdu'l-Baha is my testimony that no word
can possibly express how indissoluble are the ties of spiritual communion
and fellowship that bind us to the loved ones of God and to the handmaids
of the Merciful.

44: The deep heart's love and the longing of the ...

(167) The deep heart's love and the longing of the soul of this wronged
one for those spiritual beloved ones, and in particular for those who are
kin to the peerle