e former's judgment is temporary, while the
latter's vision is everlasting. Thou shalt soon behold the Kingdom of God
and its mysteries and the signs of God and the lights of His great Realm
of Divinity!

"O thou who art speaking the praise of god in that vast..."

O thou who art speaking the praise of god in that vast and extensive
region!

Thank God, who hath raised such women from the essences of the love of God
in that distant place and hath made them as fountains of knowledge,
sources of assurance and dawning-places of the commemoration of thy Lord,
the Merciful! I beg of God to strengthen them through the most strong
power, by the hosts rushing forth from the kingdom of El-Abha and by the
angels successively coming from heaven. Verily, He is the Assister, the
Beneficient!

As to thy question concerning the husband and wife, the tie between them
and the children given to them by God: Know thou, verily, the husband is
one who hath sincerely turned unto God, is awakened by the call of the
Beauty of El-Baha and chanteth the verses of Oneness in the great
assemblies; the wife is a being who wisheth to be overflowing with and
seeketh after the attributes of God and His names; and the tie between
them is none other than the Word of God. Verily, it [the Word of God]
causeth the multitudes to assemble together and the remote ones to be
united. Thus the husband and wife are brought into affinity, are united
and harmonized, even as though they were one person. Through their mutual
union, companionship and love great results are produced in the world,
both material and spiritual. The spiritual result is the appearance of
divine bounties. The material result is the children who are born in the
cradle of the love of God, who are nurtured by the breast of knowledge of
God, who are brought up in the bosom of the gift of God, and who are
fostered in the lap of the training of God. Such children are those of
whom it was said by Christ, "Verily, they are the children of the
Kingdom!"

Consequently, O thou maid-servant of God, go unto the maid-servants of the
Merciful one and tell them from the tongue of Abdul-Baha: "O maid-servants
of the Merciful! It is incumbent upon you to train the children from their
earliest babyhood! It is incumbent upon you to beautify their morals! It
is incumbent upon you to attend to them under all aspects and
circumstances, inasmuch as God--glorified and exalted is He! --hath ordained
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