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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 7-8

2: O thou my affectionate sister! In the daytime …
1 O thou my affectionate sister! In the daytime and in the night-season my thoughts ever turn 8 to thee. Not for one moment do I cease to remember thee. My sorrow and regret concern not myself; they centre around thee. Whenever I recall thine afflictions, tears that I cannot repress rain down from mine eyes….
1. From a Tablet addressed to the Greatest Holy Leaf. (See The Bahá’í World, vol. V, p. 172)   [ Back To Reference]