Thank your Lord for making ye signs of guidance
and standards of the Supreme Kingdom. Soon shall
the earth shake in your name, the angels pray for you.
the bells ring in your mentioning, the hearts overflow
with your love and tongues speak in your praise; forasmuch
as the doors of the Kingdom are being opened
before your faces, and the paradise of eternal life is being
prepared and decorated for your entrance; therefore
enter ye, while believing, assured, rejoiced, attracted,
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severed from the world and all therein. And
be not sorrowful on account of the affliction of Abdul-Baha,
for calamity is a light, whereby his face glistens
among the Supreme Concourse; affliction is healing to
his breast, joy of his heart, happiness to his soul; nay,
rather, the most honored garment upon his temple and
best robe upon his body, and the dearest crown upon
his head. This is his utmost desire.