O thou who art turned to the Kingdom! Thou shouldst establish a divine and heavenly
transaction. By God the Truth! Every divine transaction is eternal and
everlasting and giveth the heavenly spirit to the pure hearts attracted to God,
enlighteneth the world with the bright shining [light] of love and unity,
affinity and agreement. But every worldly transaction, although it be a gift
through which the far and the near be profited, still it is transient and temporary
and will not last for ages and its blessings will not extend successively to
the righteous people in the ages to come. And as the heavenly abundance and the
divine gifts and the omnipotent grace come in these days successively and
uninterruptedly, therefore, thou shouldst establish a heavenly edifice to
facilitate and level the way before the divine transaction, to carry out the
divine order, to gladden the pure hearts of every one, to sanctify thyself from
everything but God and to keep aloof from all the worldly things for the Cause
of God; to be kindled with the fire of the love of God, to spread the fragrance
of God and to expose thyself to the gentle breeze of God.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
