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Bahá'í World Faith (`Abdu'l-Bahá's Section Only)
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Pages 379-380
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CONSOLATION OF OUR HEARTS
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From the death of that beloved youth due to his separation from
you the utmost sorrow and grief has been occasioned, for he flew
away in the flower of his age and the bloom of his youth, to the
heavenly nest.
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But as he has been freed from this sorrow-stricken shelter and
has turned his face toward the everlasting nest of the Kingdom
and has been delivered from a dark and narrow world and has
hastened to the sanctified realm of Light, therein lies the consolation
of our hearts.
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The inscrutable divine wisdom underlies such heart-rending
occurrences. It is as if a kind gardener transfers a fresh and tender
shrub from a narrow place to a vast region. This transference
is not the cause of the withering, the waning or the destruction
of that shrub, nay rather it makes it grow and thrive, acquire
freshness and delicacy and attain verdure and fruition. This hidden
secret is well-known to the gardener, while those souls who are
unaware of this bounty suppose that the gardener in his anger and
wrath has uprooted the shrub. But to those who are aware this
concealed fact is manifest and this predestined decree considered
a favor. Do not feel grieved and disconsolate therefore at the
ascension of that bird of faithfulness, nay under all circumstances
pray and beg for that youth forgiveness and elevation of station.
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I hope that you will attain to the utmost patience, composure
and resignation, and I supplicate and entreat at the Threshold of
Oneness and beg pardon and forgiveness. My hope from the infinite
bounties of God is that He may cause this dove of the
garden of faith to abide on the branch of the Supreme Concourse
that it may sing in the best of tunes the praises and the excellencies
of the Lord of names and attributes.
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