O my well-beloved, deeply spiritual sister! [the Greatest
Holy Leaf] Day and night thou livest in my memory. Whenever I remember thee my
heart swelleth with sadness and my regret groweth more intense. Grieve not, for
I am thy true, thy unfailing comforter. Let neither despondency nor despair
becloud the serenity of thy life or restrain thy freedom. These days shall pass
away. We will, please God, in the Abhá Kingdom and beneath the sheltering
shadow of the Blessed Beauty, forget all these our earthly cares and will find
each one of these base calumnies amply compensated by His expressions of praise
and favour. From the beginning of time sorrow and anxiety, regret and
tribulation, have always been the lot of every loyal servant of God. Ponder
this in thine heart and consider how very true it is. Wherefore, set thine
heart on the tender mercies of the Ancient Beauty and be thou filled with
abiding joy and intense gladness.... 
A colorized picture of Bahiyyih Khanum,
the Greatest Holy Leaf
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; compilation: ‘Bahiyyih Khanum: The Greatest Holy Leaf’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, 1982)