Provisional Translation
- O Ye beloved friends of His Beauty!
- God has made the love of His friends
- as equal to the love of Himself
- and the showing of kindness to His friends,
- as equal to service to the Creator.
- Therefore, Ye should love the friends
- with all your hearts and souls
- and offer up your lives for one another.
- Deny them not any service.
- Do not consider any hardship to be too difficult.
- Let each one become the beloved of one and all,
- and the object of one another’s attention.
- This is the requirement of love
- and the foundation of amity.
- O Thou loving father, O thou well beloved sons.
- Praise God that all of you are under the Shelter of God
- and united in spirit.
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'Abdu’l-Bahá
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