• O thou who art enlightened by the light of the Heaven of Knowledge!
• I swear by that Spirit
• which is The Fashioner of the World,
• when I call to mind the friends of the Abha Beauty
• every sadness changes to joy,
• every sorrow and grief disappears,
• and as the sweet fragrance of the Love of God
• wafts from the garden of the friend’s hearts
• it perfumes the nostrils of the fervent ones
• like the breeze of friendship drifting from the Sacred Gardens.
• The heart is charmed and attracted.
• The spirit is elated and blissful.
• The gates of love and fragrance are opened.
• The verses of enthusiasm and knowledge are elucidated,
• as we are ever watchful for signs and clues,
• looking for the appearance of energy radiating
• from the Sacred Truths,
• captivated by the delicate scent of Mystical Knowledge.
• O God,
• confirm Thy pure servants
• to be endowed with the Signs of Thy Divinity
• and to be inflamed
• with the fire kindled in The Tree of Thy Oneness.

• Upon thee be The Glory!
• 'Abdu’l-Bahá

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