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generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility. We
pray God to protect thee from the heat of jealousy
and the cold of hatred. He verily is nigh, ready to
answer." Thus hath My tongue spoken unto one of
My Branches (sons), and We have mentioned it unto
such of Our loved ones as have cast away their idle
fancies, and clung unto that which hath been prescribed
unto them in the day whereon the Daystar
of Certitude hath shone forth above the horizon of
the will of God, the Lord of the worlds. This is the
day on which the Bird of Utterance hath warbled
its melody upon the branches, in the name of its
Lord, the God of Mercy. Blessed is the man that
hath, on the wings of longing, soared towards God,
the Lord of the Judgment Day.
The one true God well knoweth, and all the company
of His trusted ones testify, that this Wronged
One hath, at all times, been faced with dire peril.
But for the tribulations that have touched Me in the
path of God, life would have held no sweetness for
Me, and My existence would have profited Me nothing.
For them who are endued with discernment,
and whose eyes are fixed upon the Sublime Vision, it
is no secret that I have been, most of the days of My
life, even as a slave, sitting under a sword hanging
on a thread, knowing not whether it would fall soon
or late upon him. And yet, notwithstanding all this
We render thanks unto God, the Lord of the worlds.
Mine inner tongue reciteth, in the daytime and in
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