--- provisional translation approved by the Universal
House of Justice for inclusion in the book: 'Leaves of the Twin Divine Trees'
(by Baharieh Rouhani Ma’ani)
He is the comforter of the sorrowful!
O Pen! Verily Thou hast been visited by a great calamity, an
immense affliction, which hath caused the inhabitants of the highest Heaven and
most lofty Paradise to lament. Through this affliction sorrow hath ascended
until it seized the hem of the robe of the Merciful. Blessed be the man who
arose to render her service in her lifetime and visited her grave after she
winged her flight and ascended to the world beyond. Blessed likewise be the
handmaiden who betook herself to her shrine and through her drew nigh unto God.
The glory shining from the horizon of My luminous Brow, and
the splendour of the light manifested from the heaven of My Name, the Most
Glorious, be upon thee, O thou the fruit of the divine Lote-Tree, the blessed
and luminous leaf, the consort of the One through Whose revelation the kingdom
of immortality and the realm of creation were wreathed in smiles! I testify
that thou art in truth the first leaf who attained the cup of a sure union and
the last fruit who offered up her soul because of her separation from Him. Thou
art the one whose inner being was consumed, whose heart melted, and whose limbs
were set aflame by reason of thy remoteness from the presence of the One Whom
God hath made to be the Dawning-place of His Signs, the Dayspring of His
Proofs, the Manifestation of His Names, the Source of His laws, and the Seat of
His Throne.
