Be not sad on account of poverty, nor be sorrowful when the
people scorn thee. Remember the poverty of Jesus, the persecution of the Jews
to His glorious person and the scorn of Him. Verily, that poverty is the glory
of the beginning and the ending. It is a light which hath illumined the heavens
and the earth… O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
