complete unity amongst the friends and this will attract the
Divine assistance from the Abha Kingdom.

All the members of the Holy family remember you and pray for you at the
Holy Shrines. We hope to hear much good news from you; this will be the
Cause of the Master's happiness as He always wished to hear from you good
news. Convey my Abha greetings to all the brothers and sisters there.

71: All praise to the beloved Abha Beauty, ...

(199) All praise to the beloved Abha Beauty, that those nightingales of
the gardens of knowledge, those doves of the fragrant bowers of certitude,
are singing the holy verses on the boughs of grace and bounty, celebrating
the praise and glory of the Lord of the worlds, chanting His holy words,
carolling to Him hymns of love, and extolling and lauding His blessed
name.

God be thanked, the spirits rejoice, the hearts are full of fervour, the
souls are held spellbound by that shining Face. The Blessed Beauty's sea
of bounty is rolling up great waves; He is casting the rays of His grace
over the world and all its peoples; the clouds of His liberal bestowals
are showering down, the sun of His generosity is shining bright.

In its every aspect, this noblest of Dispensations and greatest of eras is
something set apart, for it is most exalted, most glorious, and
distinguished from the past. In no wise is it to be compared with the ages
gone before. So plainly, in this mighty day, have the mysteries been laid
bare, that to the perceptive and the initiated and those who have attained
the knowledge of divine secrets, they appear as tangible realities. In
this new Day the stars of allusions and hints have fallen, for the Sun of
explicit texts has risen, and the Moon of expositions and interpretations
has shone above all horizons.

As expressly stated in the Holy Text, a specific Centre has been give us.
With His own pen has 'Abdu'l-Baha, the Centre of the Covenant, selected
and appointed Shoghi Effendi, the Chosen Branch, the Guardian of the Cause
of God, the interpreter of the Book of God, so that the highway of divine
guidance has been clearly marked out and lighted up for all the ages to
come. This bounty is one of the distinguishing features of this mightiest
of Dispensations, a special grace allotted to this age.

It is my hope that we all shall arise, thus to prove our gratitude for all
these rich bestowals and gifts, and serve the Cause of God and spread the
holy Teachings and