The sighs of your love, the tears of your despair, the anguish and hardship you face are the heartbeat of our world. Your sacrifice is the reason for my very breath, the impetus of my existence.
Because of my place of birth I am incapable of, and yet protected from, enduring the tests and injustice that you live with each day. I will never be able to see the sacred land in which you live—the cradle of our Faith, the birth place of our Beloved, the resting place of countless souls stolen before their time. I will never taste a single drop from the cup of sacrifice that each of you must quaff of every day of your lives.
Because of your birth place and your strength and resolve to see justice and change in your home country, you are barred from attaining your heart’s desire. You are unable to see the sun shine off of the Báb’s golden domed Shrine or hear the birds chirping while praying inside the Shrine of Baha’u’llah—the most blessed, most precious, most Holy spot on earth, and by the grace of God, my birthright.
How is it possible for one person to be so close to our Adored One and yet so far away, while you are so far from Him and yet so breathtakingly close? You yearn with all your hearts for the blessings that are heaped upon me each day, while I in turn yearn with all my heart to understand and embody the faith and the love and the courage with which you face each day.
You sacrifice the bounties in my life, the joy of my existence, for the betterment of our world, for the spiritual rejuvenation of a country that has not yet recognized it’s most precious, most life altering achievement. If I were to devote the rest of my life in service to humanity, I could not even begin to measure up to an ounce of the blood that you have spilled in His path. Could not even comprehend what it means to truly detach from all else but God. I may be materially stable, but you are spiritually the richest population I have ever known.
May your hardship be rewarded with eternal joy and wonder. May your prayers and your steadfastness bring you justice and freedom. May you never lose faith that the love and prayers of an entire world of believers are with you in your sorrows, in your anguish, in your turmoil. May you always feel the love and light and inspiration we feel when we think of you, our precious, devoted, beloved, treasured brothers and sisters in Iran.
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