the sincere great bounties and favours, Who
guardest the frightened within Thine impregnable refuge, Who answerest,
from Thine all-highest horizon, the cry of those who cry out unto Thee.
Praised be Thou, O my Lord! Thou hast guided the distracted out of the
death of unbelief, and hast brought those who draw nigh unto Thee to the
journey's goal, and hast rejoiced the assured among Thy servants by
granting them their most cherished desires, and hast, from Thy Kingdom of
beauty, opened before the faces of those who yearn after Thee the gates of
reunion, and hast rescued them from the fires of deprivation and loss--so
that they hastened unto Thee and gained Thy presence, and arrived at Thy
welcoming door, and received of gifts an abundant share.

O my Lord, they thirsted, Thou didst lift to their parched lips the waters
of reunion. O Tender One, Bestowing One, Thou didst calm their pain with
the balm of Thy bounty and grace, and didst heal their ailments with the
sovereign medicine of Thy compassion. O Lord, make firm their feet on Thy
straight path, make wide for them the needle's eye, and cause them,
dressed in royal robes, to walk in glory for ever and ever.

Verily art Thou the Generous, the Ever-Giving, the Precious, the Most
Bountiful. There is none other God but Thee, the Mighty, the Powerful, the
Exalted, the Victorious.

O my spiritual loved ones! Praise be to God, ye have thrust the veils
aside and recognized the compassionate Beloved, and have hastened away
from this abode to the placeless realm. Ye have pitched your tents in the
world of God, and to glorify Him, the Self-Subsistent, ye have raised
sweet voices and sung songs that pierced the heart. Well done! A thousand
times well done! For ye have beheld the Light made manifest, and in your
reborn beings ye have raised the cry, 'Blessed be the Lord, the best of
all creators!' Ye were but babes in the womb, then were ye sucklings, and
from a precious breast ye drew the milk of knowledge, then came ye to your
full growth, and won salvation. Now is the time for service, and for
servitude unto the Lord. Release yourselves from all distracting thoughts,
deliver the Message with an eloquent tongue, adorn your assemblages with
praise of the Beloved, till bounty shall descend in overwhelming floods
and dress the world in fresh greenery and blossoms. This streaming bounty
is even the counsels, admonitions, instructions, and injunctions of
Almighty God.

O ye my love