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“O dear servant of God!…” |
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The necessity and the particularity of the assured
and believing ones is to be firm in the Cause of God
and withstand the hidden and evident tests. Thanks
be to God that you are distinguished and made eminent
by this blessing. Anybody can be happy in the
state of comfort, ease, health, success, pleasure and joy;
but if one will be happy and contented in the time of
trouble, hardship and prevailing disease, it is the proof
of nobility. Thanks be to God that that dear servant
of God is extremely patient under the disastrous circumstances,
and in the place of complaining gives
thanks.
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Verily I am pleased with both you and [your husband],
and I ask God that you may find pleasure and
ease in another world—for this earthly world is narrow,
dark and frightful, rest cannot be imagined and
happiness really is non-existent, everyone is captured
in the net of sorrow, and is day and night enslaved by
the chain of calamity; there is no one who is at all free
or at rest from grief and affliction. Still, as the believers
of God are turning to the limitless world, they
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do not become very depressed and sad by disastrous
calamities—there is something to console them; but the
others in no way have anything to comfort them at the
time of calamity. Whenever a calamity and a hardship
occurs, they become sad and disappointed, and hopeless
of the bounty and the mercy of the Glorious Lord.
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