infinitely grieved to learn of the sufferings you have undergone, being
made as you were the targets of such injustice, malevolence and
aggression.

Since, however, you stood firm and steadfast and unchanging, as the arrows
of tyranny came against you, and since this happened for the sake of the
Blessed Beauty, and in the pathway of the One Beloved, it behoves you to
thank God and praise Him, for having singled you out for this great
bounty.

For this clamour and uproar, the blows, the abuse, the taunts, the curses,
when borne for love of the All-Bounteous Lord, are but festive days and
times for jubilee.

God be praised, you have been given a drop out of that ocean of
tribulations that swept across the Exalted One and the Beauty of the
All-Glorious, you were granted a droplet out of the seas of calamity that
engulfed 'Abdu'l-Baha.

The evil ones did not destroy the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar, nor will they
ever; it was their own house that they brought down in ruins and gave to
the winds. They did not burn down the school, they put the flame to their
own roots.

Lofty is the structure of the House of Worship; it is certain that you
will build a new and greater one. Be you confident of the bestowals of the
Blessed Beauty and the gifts and blessings of 'Abdu'l-Baha.

63: The sad news about the death of your ...

(191) The sad news about the death of your husband has just reached us; we
fully sympathize with you. When one meditates over the general trend of
affairs and drinks deep from the fountain of the teachings of Baha'u'llah
and 'Abdu'l-Baha he is bound to come to the conclusion that this world is
no world of attachment; nay rather it constantly gives us the lesson of
keeping aloof as far as possible from it. This point becomes clearer now
that the physical body of the Master is taken away from us. We should
really congratulate the departing ones because they leave this world of
pains and troubles and enter the eternal bliss of being with holy spirits
which have been working to detach humanity from the ephemeral world.

64: The letter you have written was received ...

(192) The letter you have written was received with the utmost joy for it
was to us not only a message of love and unity but a message of humble
devotion and servitude at the divine Threshold. It was not only the cause
of comfort to our broken hearts but also a divine balm to our souls and we
are sure that the spirit which that let