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Extracts From the Writings and Utterances of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: 96: The effulgence of the rays of the Sun of Truth is abundant and the favours… |
The effulgence of the rays of the Sun of Truth is abundant and the favours
of the Blessed Beauty surround the women believers and the handmaidens who have
attained unto certitude. At every moment a bounteous bestowal is revealed.
The handmaidens of the Merciful should seize the opportunities afforded in
these days. Each one should strive to draw nigh unto the divine Threshold and
seek bounties from the Source of existence. She should attain such a state and
be confirmed with such a power as to make, with but the utterance of one word,
a lowly person to be held in reverence, initiate him who is deprived into the
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world of the spirit, impart hope to the despondent, endow the portionless one
with a share of the great bestowal, and confer knowledge and insight upon the
ignorant and the blind, and alertness and vigilance on the indolent and
heedless. This is the attribute of the handmaidens of the Merciful. This is
the characteristic of the bondsmaids of God’s Threshold.
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O ye leaves who have attained certitude! In the countries of Europe and
America the maidservants of the Merciful have won the prize of excellence and
advancement from the arena of men, and in the fields of teaching and spreading
the divine fragrances they have shown a brilliant hand. Soon they will soar
like the birds of the Concourse on high in the far corners of the world and
will guide the people and reveal to them the divine mysteries. Ye, who are the
blessed leaves from the East, should burn more brightly, and engage in
spreading the sweet savours of the Lord and in reciting the verses of God.
Arise, therefore, and exert yourselves to fulfil the exhortations and counsels
of the Blessed Beauty, that all hopes may be realized and that the plain of
streams and orchards may become the garden of oneness.
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