Upon him be Baha’u’l-Abha!
He is God!
O thou propagator of the Religion of God!
A few days ago an epistle was written thee. Although I have
not much time, yet I immediately give an answer to thy letter so that thou
mayst know how my heart is attached to thee. Truly I say in the Cause of God
thou art sincere. Thou hast no other object save the good-pleasure of the Lord,
and hast consecrated all thy time to the service of the Kingdom of God. On this
account I have the utmost love for thee.
Praise be to God, that the problem of meetings is solved,
and there is no more any cause for dispute. Now the believers must engage their
time in teaching the Cause of God, and in the meeting no discussion should be
carried on save the Cause of God. The members of the Baha’i Assemblies must be
infinitely kind towards each other and all their deliberations must be
concerning the Kingdom of Abha. Promiscuous discussion must be discountenanced,
for these things will become the means of the luke-warmness and apathy of those
who are present. The Candles of all the meetings must be the Mention of God,
the propagation of the Cause of God, the exposition of Divine Proofs and the
elucidation of the Principles of His Holiness Baha’u’llah. When this condition
is obtained, the meeting will become heavenly, celestial, godlike, illumined
and the means of the guidance of the erring ones. It will yield most great
results.
O thou servant of His Holiness Baha’u’llah! Inform all the
believers that perhaps a number of calumnious articles will be sent to those
parts by the people of doubts. The aim of such articles is to cause the
wavering of the friends in The Covenant and The Testament. Therefore, they
should not take notice of these articles, nay, rather, return them to the
senders, accompanied with concise, full and sweeping answers -- that we are
firm in The Covenant and the servants of the Blessed Perfection. We do not give
ear to such hearsays and incoherent statements. We have turned our faces to the
Center of the Covenant in accord with the incontrovertible Commands of
Baha’u’llah, the Text of the Book of Aqdas and the Text of the Tablet of the
Covenant. We have nothing to do with the people of doubts.
Upon thee be Baha’u’l-Abha!
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 9, August 20, 1914)