O dear servant of God! The tests of God are surrounding you
from all directions and many afflictions have occurred; but thanks be to God
that you and your honorable husband are patient, thankful and constant.
The necessity and the particularity of the assured and
believing ones is to be firm in the Cause of God and withstand the hidden and
evident tests. Thanks be to God that you are distinguished and made eminent by
this blessing. Anybody can be happy in the state of comfort, ease, health,
success, pleasure and joy; but if one will be happy and contented in the time
of trouble, hardship and prevailing disease, it is the proof of nobility.
Thanks be to God that that dear servant of God is extremely patient under the
disastrous circumstances, and in the place of complaining gives thanks.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
