Upon them be the Glory of God the Most Glorious!
He Is God!
O ye illumined Friends of ‘Abdu’l-Baha!
Praise be to God, that you have organized and established a new
assembly in the land of Isfahan and with the utmost devotion its members are
arising to serve the Blessed Perfection (Baha’u’llah). I was pleased to know,
also, that you have organized a committee for correspondence with all parts of
the world, and another committee to teach the Truth to the youths. Wonderful
confirmation and complete assistance is destined for all the members of these
various committees. This move is identical with blessing and this glorious
intention is accepted in the Threshold of Oneness. It is my hope that you may
perform these services in a befitting manner; that you may become the dawning-places
of the Bounties of the Infinite; centers of merciful feelings and the manifestors
of the rays of the Everlasting Glory.
I trust that you may make the land of Isfahan a salubrious
fountain, so that the cool water of knowledge and the flowing river of
assurance may make that region the envy of the green garden of Paradise. That
city was illumined with the presence of His Highness, the Bab, after He left
Shiraz; the Word of God was promulgated; many blessed souls became believers; a
number of them hastened toward the arena of martyrdom; his highness, the leader
of the righteous ones, the "King of the Martyrs," and the master of
the friends, the "Beloved of Martyrs," gave up their lives at the
altar of love. His Highness, Ashraf, and many other martyrs drank the cup of
trials and sacrificed their lives with the utmost severance. Therefore, it is
the hope of ‘Abdu’l-Baha that that region may become the Green Garden and that
city the delectable Paradise.
Upon ye be the Glory of God
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West vol. 1, no. 14, November 23, 1910)
