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His a ictions, His blessed body was worn away to a breath; it was light as a cobweb from long

grieving. And His reason for shouldering this heavy load and enduring all this anguish, which

was even as an ocean that hurleth its waves to high heaven—His reason for putting on the

heavy iron chains and for becoming the very embodiment of utter resignation and meekness,

was to lead every soul on earth to concord, to fellow feeling, to oneness; to make known

amongst all peoples the sign of the singleness of God, so that at last the primal oneness

deposited at the heart of all created things would bear its destined fruit, and the splendor of

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“No di erence canst thou see in the creation of the God of Mercy,” would cast abroad its rays.

'Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, p263

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The second condition: Fellowship and love amongst the believers. The divine friends must be

attracted to and enamored of each other and ever be ready and willing to sacri ce their own

lives for each other. Should one soul from amongst the believers meet another, it must be as

though a thirsty one with parched lips has reached to the fountain of the water of life, or a lover

has met his true beloved. For one of the greatest divine wisdoms regarding the appearance of

the holy Manifestations is this: The souls may come to know each other and become intimate
with each other; the power of the love of God may make all of them the waves of one sea, the

owers of one rose garden, and the stars of one heaven….

O ye friends! Fellowship, fellowship! Love, love! Unity, unity!—so that the power of the Bahá’í

Cause may appear and become manifest in the world of existence.

'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablets of the Divine Plan, p426

2 Qur’án 67:3

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