A new version of the Bahá’í Reference Library is now available. This ‘old version’ of the Bahá’í Reference Library will be replaced at a later date.

The new version of the Bahá’i Reference Library can be accessed here »

Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas

  • Author:

  • ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Publishing Committee, 1909 edition
  • Pages:
  • 730
Go to printed page GO
Page 331

“O thou who art kindled with the fire of the Love of…”
O thou who art kindled with the fire of the Love of God!
Verily I read thy words which showed thy yearning love in God, and chanted thy expressions written in His praise.
I beg of God to make thee a sign of guidance, a standard of righteousness and a lamp shining with the light of the knowledge of God.
Give my greeting and salutation to Mrs. ….…. and say to her: “Be not disappointed by the calamity which hath befallen thee and be not grieved that the consolation of thine eye (thy child) hath left the world of dust and hath ascended to the expanse of the Kingdom, that he hath abandoned the abode of the lowest world and hath sought refuge in the presence of the greatest mercy, where the Lord hath placed him in a comfortable abode.”
We have already written a consoling letter 1 to her, whereby her breast will be dilated and her soul will cheer.
1. See Tablet commencing bottom page 139, Vol. I.   [ Back To Reference]