November 30. On this date in 1910, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab translated a Tablet written by 'Abdu'l-Bahá "To the Believers of God in Ghalé Darré, Persia," later published in Star of the West.

 

November 30. On this date in 1910, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab translated a Tablet written by 'Abdu'l-Bahá "To the Believers of God in Ghalé Darré, Persia," later published in Star of the West.

BAHAI NEWS

Vol. 1. Chicago (Dec. 12, 1910) Masa'il No. 15

TABLET FROM ABDUL-BAHA.

To the Believers of God in Ghalé Darré, Persia.

Upon them be the Glory of God the Most Glorious!

HE IS GOD!

O ye servants of the Blessed Perfection!

In the Day of the Manifestation, you have caught the lights from the Manifestor on the Mount of Sinai and beheld the splendor of the Ray of Truth. Ye are the children of the Period of BAHA'O'LLAH and have become the appearance of the Effulgence of Mercifulness in the Day wherein the rays of the Divine Sun radiate upon all things. Tear down the old garment and clad your sanctified temples with the new robe! Ye have passed from the salty water of ignorance and have drunk the salubrious salsabil of knowledge. Ye have closed your eyes to the wine of heedlessness and became intoxicated with the choice sealed wine of intelligence! Ye have taken the cup of prosperity from the cupbearer of the Covenant and with infinite rejoicing, happiness and beatitude celebrated the Feast of beholding the rays of the Orb of regions!

Now is the time that we may sacrifice, for the sake of the Love of that Beloved, our spirit, our soul, our heart, our mind, our property, our life and our all; and to wish for nothing but His good-pleasure, search for nothing but His Path, and desire nothing but His Service!

Upon ye be Glory!

(Signed) ABDUL-BAHA ABBAS.

Translated by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, November 30, 1910, especially for the BAHAI NEWS.