Whensoever ye behold a person whose entire attention is
directed toward the Cause of God; whose only aim is this, to make the Word of
God to take effect; who, day and night, with pure intent, is rendering service
to the Cause; from whose behaviour not the slightest trace of egotism or
private motives is discerned—who, rather, wandereth distracted in the
wilderness of the love of God, and drinketh only from the cup of the knowledge
of God, and is utterly engrossed in spreading the sweet savours of God, and is
enamoured of the holy verses of the Kingdom of God—know ye for a certainty that
this individual will be supported and reinforced by heaven; that like unto the
morning star, he will forever gleam brightly out of the skies of eternal grace.
But if he show the slightest taint of selfish desires and self love, his
efforts will lead to nothing and he will be destroyed and left hopeless at the
last.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Seletions from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
