O thou who art turned to the Kingdom of the Lord, the Forgiving!
With prayers and supplications and with submissive songs of
the Texts of God, I plead to Him to accept thee in His Kingdom; to clothe thee
with the mantle of sanctity; to gloriously cover thee with the veil of
abstinence; to illumine thy brow with the light of singleness; to console thine
eyes with the seeing of the Texts of the Kingdom in the human form; and to make
thee utter the mentioning of Him, rejoicing through His bounty, heralding His
Kingdom with a bright face, whose light will illumine all sides. (‘Abdu’l-Baha,
‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
