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Bahíyyih Khánum
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Pages 186-187
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62: Your letter has come, and I myself and the ...
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Your letter has come, and I myself and the Holy Family were infinitely grieved to learn of the
sufferings you have undergone, being made as you
were the targets of such injustice, malevolence and
aggression.
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Since, however, you stood firm and steadfast and
unchanging, as the arrows of tyranny came against
you, and since this happened for the sake of the
Blessed Beauty, and in the pathway of the One
Beloved, it behoves you to thank God and praise
Him, for having singled you out for this great
bounty.
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For this clamour and uproar, the blows, the
abuse, the taunts, the curses, when borne for love of
the All-Bounteous Lord, are but festive days and
times for jubilee.
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God be praised, you have been given a drop out of
that ocean of tribulations that swept across the
Exalted One and the Beauty of the All-Glorious,
you were granted a droplet out of the seas of
calamity that engulfed `Abdu'l-Bahá.
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The evil ones did not destroy the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár,
nor will they ever; it was their
own house that they brought down in ruins and
gave to the winds. They did not burn down the
school, they put the flame to their own roots.
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Lofty is the structure of the House of Worship; it
is certain that you will build a new and greater one.
Be you confident of the bestowals of the Blessed
Beauty and the gifts and blessings of `Abdu'l-Bahá.
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