Thy letter was received. Thou hast spoken concerning thy
lack of ability and capacity. Wert thou without ability and capacity, thou
wouldst not have advanced toward the Kingdom of Abha.
Consider how there are thousands of heedless souls who are
asleep, while there is one who is conscious and awake! Even as His Holiness
Christ has said, the friends of God are the salt of the earth, and the salt is
but a little part of the whole. Undoubtedly the friends of God have been
endowed with ability and capacity, on which account this became of the “chosen”
and not of the “called.”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1)
