ignited like unto lamps and the
maid-servants of God shine like stars; in order to illumine that country,
to make that clime the "Paradise of perpetual abode" [or heaven], to
suffer the people to drink from the wine of guidance, to intoxicate the
ones yearning after the Kingdom of Abha, to open spiritual universities,
to be instructed in the mysteries of the love of God by the Heavenly
Instructor, to associate with each other with the utmost humility and
attain to spiritual affinity.

Each one must sacrifice his life and possessions to the other and each
person be loving to all the inhabitants of the world, rending asunder the
curtain of foreignness and consorting with all the people with union and
accord. They must be faithful to the traitors and benevolent to the
tyrant. They must recognize the enemies as friends, the unknown as known.
These are the advices and exhortations of God!

O ye friends: O ye maid-servants of the Merciful! In order to thank God
for this most great guidance, consort with all the people with the utmost
joy and happiness, so that ye may become the recipients of the glances of
Providence.

Become ye not sad on account of any calamity, neither be ye broken hearted
by any trials. Be ye firm and steadfast in order that the beloved may
become the cup-bearer of the assembly and the greatest desire become
realized.

Blessing be upon ye by the bounty of your Lord the Merciful!

"O my Lord! O my Lord!..."

(274) O my Lord! O my Lord!

(275) I am a child of tender years. Nourish me from the breast of Thy
mercy, train me in the bosom of Thy love, educate me in the school of Thy
guidance and develop me under the shadow of Thy bounty! Deliver me from
darkness, make me a brilliant light; free me from unhappiness, make me a
flower of the rose-garden; suffer me to become the servant of Thy
Threshold and confer upon me the disposition and nature of the righteous
ones; make me a cause of bounty to the human world and crown my head with
the diadem of eternal life!

Verily, Thou art the Powerful, the Mighty, the Seer, the Hearer!

"Thou hast written concerning the universal peace,..."

(276) Thou hast written concerning the universal peace, that before long
the congress of The Hague will be opened(277) and discussion will be made
in regard to the universal peace.

This problem cannot be solved by the congress of The Hague, whose members
are the representatives of nations; nay, rather, t