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"O ye illumined loved ones and
ye handmaids of the Merciful! At a time when the sombre night of
ignorance, of neglect of the divine world, of being veiled from God, had
overspread the earth, a bright morning dawned and a rising light lit up
the eastern sky. Then rose the Sun of Truth and the splendours of the
Kingdom were shed over east and west. Those who had eyes to see rejoiced
at the glad tidings and cried out: 'O blessed, blessed are we!', and they
witnessed the inner reality of all things, and uncovered the mysteries of
the Kingdom. Delivered then from their fancies and their doubts, they
beheld the light of truth, and so exhilarated did they become from
draining the chalice of God's love, that they utterly forgot the world and
their own selves. Dancing for joy they hastened to the place of their own
martyrdom and there, where men die for love, they flung away their heads
and hearts."
- Abdu'l-Baha,
Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá, p. 33
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