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So Radiantly Happy and Hopeful

“Every believer that came in contact with her left her presence with a more determined spirit of service and self-sacrifice.”

Written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi · Bahíyyih Khánum: The Greatest Holy Leaf

Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957) · 1 min

The passing away of the Greatest Holy Leaf was a loss every Bahá’í will feel deeply if only he stops to think about it. She was such a precious soul and so radiantly happy and hopeful even under most adverse circumstances. Every believer that came in contact with her left her presence with a more determined spirit of service and self-sacrifice. Both Shoghi Effendi and the rest of the Bahá’ís will mourn her loss bitterly.

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Their only consolation can be her own deliverance from a life of hardship and difficulties, and her entrance into a realm which is naught but eternal bliss and infinite divine grace.

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*From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, dated 6 October 1932.*

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