with your
love and tongues speak in your praise; forasmuch as the doors of the
Kingdom are being opened before your faces, and the paradise of eternal
life is being prepared and decorated for your entrance; therefore enter
ye, while believing, assured, rejoiced, attracted, severed from the world
and all therein. And be not sorrowful on account of the affliction of
Abdul-Baha, for calamity is a light, whereby his face glistens among the
Supreme Concourse; affliction is healing to his breast, joy of his heart,
happiness to his soul; nay, rather, the most honored garment upon his
temple and best robe upon his body, and the dearest crown upon his head.
This is his utmost desire.

Implore unto God and supplicate to Him in your prayers at morn and eve,
asking God to destine to Abdul-Baha the draught of the great martyrdom, so
that he may welcome it with great desire, and ascend unto the Kingdom of
God with illumined face, with smiling lips, brilliant forehead, eloquent
tongue, and great thankfulness among the Supreme Concourse.

"O ye who are attracted! O ye who are remembered!..."

O ye(188) who are attracted! O ye who are remembered! O ye who are
directed unto the Kingdom of God!

Verily I supplicate God in heart and spirit to make you signs of guidance,
standards of sanctity and fountains of knowledge and understanding, that
through you He may guide the seekers unto the Straight path and lead them
unto the Mighty Way in this Great Cycle.

O beloved of God! Know ye that the world is like unto a mirage which the
thirsty one thinks to be water; its water is a vapor; its mercy a
difficulty; its repose hardship and ordeal; leave it to its people and
turn unto the Kingdom of your Lord the Merciful. Thus the lights of mercy
and beneficence may shine upon you, the heavenly table descend for you,
your Lord may bestow upon you the greatest gifts and favors, whereby your
breasts may become dilated, your hearts gladdened, your souls purified,
and your eyes enlightened.

O beloved of God! Is there any giver save God? He chooseth for His mercy
whomsoever He desireth.

He shall open unto you the doors of His knowledge, fill your hearts with
His love, rejoice your spirits by the wafting of His holy fragrances,
illumine your faces by the Manifest Light and elevate your names among the
people.

Verily your Lord is the most merciful of the merciful! He will aid you
through an unseen host, and help you by armies of inspiratio