‘Marḥabá! Marḥabá! (Welcome, welcome), Jináb-i-Khán. You have suffered much on your wanderings, but welcome! Praise be to God, you have reached here in safety.
‘The Blessed Perfection, Bahá’u’lláh, has promised to raise up souls who would hasten to the service of the Covenant, and would assist me in spreading His Faith. His Cause has now reached America and many in the Western world are being attracted to His Teachings. You, with your knowledge of English, are one of those souls promised me by Bahá’u’lláh. You have come to assist me by translating His Sacred Writings as well as my letters to the friends in America and elsewhere in the West.’
The room seemed charged with His words. They resounded ever after in Khan’s mind and heart.
Then He said, ‘You must reside with me and assist me in my work.’
He stretched out His hand to the table and took up a pack of folded papers, the sort He used for Tablets, and passed them over to Khan.
‘These are the answers’, He said, ‘that I have written to some of the American Bahá’ís. Go and translate them into English.’
Khan unfolded the top ones. They were Tablets ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had written in His own hand. They were in Arabic.
‘But my Master,’ he cried, ‘these are not in Persian! These are Arabic! In my college I studied European languages, but not Arabic!’
No one had ever in his life looked at Khan with such loving eyes and such a smile. Still smiling, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá reached for His rock candy on the table. Filling both His hands He told Khan to cup his palms for the candy. Then, His eyes mysteriously solemn, and His voice taking on a new, strange tone, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said: ‘Go, and eat this candy. Rest assured, the Blessed Perfection will enable you to translate the Arabic into English. Rest assured that as time goes on you will be assisted to translate from the Arabic much more easily than from the Persian.’
(Summon Up Remembrance by Marzieh Gail)
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