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Bahíyyih Khánum, the Greatest Holy Leaf: A Compilation from Bahá’í Sacred Texts and Writings of the Guardian of the Faith and Bahíyyih Khánum’s Own Letters

  • Author:
  • World Centre

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í World Centre, 1982 edition
  • Pages:
  • 231
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Pages 21-22

2: And in this fervent plea, my voice is once …

1 And in this fervent plea, my voice is once more reinforced by the passionate, and perhaps, the 22 last, entreaty, of the Greatest Holy Leaf, whose spirit, now hovering on the edge of the Great Beyond, longs to carry on its flight to the Abhá Kingdom, and into the presence of a Divine, an almighty Father, an assurance of the joyous consummation of an enterprise, 2 the progress of which has so greatly brightened the closing days of her earthly life.
1. 21 March 1932, to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. (See The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 67–68)   [ Back To Reference]
2. Construction of the House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.   [ Back To Reference]