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“O thou who art rejoiced by the Divine Glad-tidings!…” |
Verily I have received thy last letter and thanked God
that thou didst reach Paris protected and guarded (by
Him). Thank thou God that He assisted thee to behold
the brilliant faces of the believers of God and
favored thee to meet them in American countries.
For, verily, beholding those shining countenances is a
divine gift; by it the hearts are dilated, the souls are
rejoiced and the spirits are attracted toward the Supreme
Concourse.
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Do not lament over the departure of my dearly beloved
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Breakwell, for verily he hath ascended to the
luminous rose-garden in the Abha Kingdom, near the
mercy of his Lord, the Almighty, and is crying out
with the loudest voice: “O that my people knew how
my Lord hath forgiven me and made me one of those
who have attained (to the meeting of God)!”
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O my adored one, O Breakwell! Then thou hast
ignited a light in the glass of the Supreme Concourse,
hast entered the Paradise of Abha, art protected under
the Shade of the Blessed Tree and hast attained to the
Meeting (of the True One) in the Abode of Paradise!
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O my beloved, O Breakwell! Verily thy Lord hath
chosen thee for His love, guided thee to the Court of
His Holiness, caused thee to enter into the Rizwan
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of His Association and granted thee to behold His
Beauty!
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O my adored one, O my Breakwell! I mention thy
name continually, I never forget thee, I pray for thee
day and night and I see thee clearly and manifestly,
O my adored one, O Breakwell!
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***Concerning thy question whether all the souls
enjoy eternal life: Know thou those souls partake of
the Eternal Life in whom the Spirit of Life is breathed
from the Presence of God and all beside them are dead—without Life, as Christ hath explained in the texts of
the Gospel. Any person whose insight is opened by
God seeth the souls in their stations after the disintegration
of the bodies. Verily they are living and are
subsisting before their Lord and he seeth also the dead
souls submerged in the gulfs of mortality. Then know
thou verily all the souls are created according to the
nature of God and all are in the state of (unconscious)
purity at the time of their births. But afterward they
differ from one another insofar as they acquire excellencies
or defects. Nevertheless, the creatures have
different degrees in existence insofar as the creation
goes, for capacities are different, but all of them are
good and pure (in their essence), then afterward they
are polluted and defiled. Although there are different
states of creation, yet all of them are beneficial.
Glance thou over the temple of man, its members and
its parts. Among them there are the eye, ear, nose,
mouth, hands and fingers. Notwithstanding the differences
between these organs, all of them are useful
in their proper spheres. But if one of them is out of
order, there is need of a remedy and if the medicine
does not heal, then the amputation of that member
becomes necessary.
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1. | Rizwan, i.e., Paradise. [ Back To Reference] |