O my friend, it is incumbent upon thee to be severed (from
all else save God), to be attracted, to be sincere, and to spend thy life in
the path of God. Be thou holy, spiritual, divine, lively, brilliant, godlike,
sanctified, pure, with merciful character, firm in the Covenant, fluent and
knowing; and gaze toward the Kingdom of Abha with a heart brimming over with
the love of God, with tears flowing the commemoration of God, with a face
scintillating through the light of God, with a heart sincere to the beloved of
God, and with a sword which divides truth from falsehood. By God, the True One,
the Spirit of Baha’ will assist thee with such strength that all the concourse
of the earth will fail (to withstand).
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha ('Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha,
vol. 1')
