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“O thou who art firm in the Covenant!…” |
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O thou
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who art firm in the Covenant!
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***The prison is like a paradise to Abdul-Baha, the
depth of the well is as the height of the moon—such is
my desire in the Path of the Blessed Beauty! Were
it not for the chain, sword and affliction, how should
the people of faithfulness be distinguished from the
people of hatred? Nay, otherwise, they would seem
as one. This wound cannot be remedied save by a host
of calamities, and this illness cannot be cured except by
the cup of affliction.
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I ask God that I may not repose for a moment, but
that, night and day, in the love of the Blessed Beauty
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—may my spirit be a sacrifice to Him!—I may drink
from the rosy cup of the blood of the heart.
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With every breath do I desire to perceive thousands
of afflictions approaching me from every inhuman one;
at one time, to rest in the bottom of a dungeon; at another,
to repose on the chain; and, ultimately, by the
favor and providence of the Blessed Perfection, to roll
my face and hair in my blood.
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Therefore, their invitation
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was not accepted because
they invited departure to that region. Lately, that
general letter was requested from persia, and it was
sent thereto.***
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Addressed to the translator for the Chicago assembly.
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Baha’o’llah.
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Refers to an invitation sent from Chicago, in 1901, to Abdul-Baha to come to America.
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