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62: O my well-beloved daughter of the Kingdom! … |
O my well-beloved daughter of the Kingdom!
The letter thou hadst written to Dr. Esslemont was forwarded
by him to the Land of Desire [The Holy Land]. I
read it all through with the greatest attention. On the one
hand, I was deeply touched, for thou hadst sheared off those
fair tresses of thine with the shears of detachment from this
world and of self-sacrifice in the path of the Kingdom of
God. And on the other, I was greatly pleased, for that
dearly-beloved daughter hath evinced so great a spirit of
self-sacrifice as to offer up so precious a part of her body in
the pathway of the Cause of God. Hadst thou sought my
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opinion, I would in no wise have consented that thou
shouldst shear off even a single thread of thy comely and
wavy locks; nay, I myself would have contributed in thy
name for the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár. This deed of thine is,
however, an eloquent testimony to thy noble spirit of self-sacrifice.
Thou hast, verily, sacrificed thy life and great will
be the spiritual results thou shalt obtain. Rest thou confident
that day by day thou shalt progress and wax greater in
firmness and in constancy. The bounties of Bahá’u’lláh
shall compass thee about and the joyful tidings from on high
shall time and again be imparted unto thee. And though it
be thine hair that thou hast sacrificed, yet thou shalt be filled
with the Spirit, and though it be this perishable member of
thy body which thou hast laid down in the path of God, yet
thou shalt find the Divine Gift, shalt behold the Celestial
Beauty, obtain imperishable glory and attain unto everlasting
life.
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