His Highness Baha’u’llah addressing the
world, says: "Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the fruits of One
branch." Therefore, the law of relationship, brotherhood, kinship,
fatherhood and motherhood is established and proven among all the families of
the human race. Endeavor ye with all your hearts and souls so that ye may live
and act in accord with these teachings of His Highness Baha’u’llah; to become
an asylum to every oppressed one; to assist and uplift every vanquished one; to
be a skilled physician to every sick one; to bestow a swift healing antidote to
every wounded one; to inspire with confidence every fearful one; to grant
tranquility and composure to every agitated one; to gladden the heart of every
depressed one; to become a salubrious water to every thirsty one; heavenly food
to every hungry one; to become the cause of glory to every fallen one and be
charitable to all the poor ones.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet, ‘Star of the
West’, vol. 1, no. 17, January 19, 1911)
