ost love
and fellowship. They all send loving greetings and salutations to you
through the language of the heart.

10: May the Light of Union radiate with greater ...

(118) May the Light of Union radiate with greater clearness and brilliancy
day by day among the people in your great country--for to this country God
has given much and much is expected from it. But without harmony and love
existing among those who call themselves Baha'is, nothing will be seen
from it whatsoever; for verily the Believers are the pivots upon which the
fate of nations hang; and a difference among two believers is quite
sufficient to consume and destroy a whole country. The one who works for
harmony and union among the hearts of the people in these days will
receive the greatest blessings and the most abundant bounties. There is no
greater work for one to do upon this earth than to try and unite the
hearts of the people--and especially those who are calling upon the Holy
Name of God.

11: O my dear sister! I have read what you ...

(119) O my dear sister! I have read what you wrote, and as I became aware
of the content, I wept bitter tears. Then I carried the letter itself to
'Abdu'l-Baha and He read it from beginning to end. These terrible events
in Yazd call for cries and lamentation, and the shedding of tears of fire.

Although 'Ali's foes, on the plains of Karbila, came as a rushing torrent
of affliction against the Prince of Martyrs,(120) and even as ravening
wolves, tore at the breasts of the favoured ones of the Court of Holiness,
and wreaked their hate upon them and lifted their heads onto pikes--they
leading out an expedition against the hapless victims, and carrying away
all that these possessed--yet the span of that agony at Karbila was but
from the morning until noon, while the ordeal of the martyrs of Yazd
lasted one entire month. And further, the companions of the Prince of
Martyrs--may the souls of all those killed on the holy Path be offered up
for him!--made to defend themselves, and each one of them felled a number
of those foes of 'Ali's House, spilled out the others' blood, before being
martyred themselves. But these innocent victims of Yazd looked on their
murderers with smiles, and gently welcomed them, and in exchange for the
swords' blows offered honey and milk. Those set the blade to the victims'
throats, but the martyrs presented them with sweets; those cursed and
vilified them, while the martyrs