See ye… to your own tasks: guide ye the people and educate them
in the ways of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Deliver to mankind this joyous message from the
Abhá Realm. Rest not, by day or night; seek ye no moment’s peace. Strive ye
with all your might to bring to men’s ears these happy tidings. In your love
for God and your attachment to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, accept ye every tribulation, every
sorrow. Endure the aggressor’s taunts, put up with the enemy’s reproaches.
Follow in the footsteps of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and in the pathway of the Abhá Beauty,
long at every moment to give up your lives. Shine out like the day-star, be
unresting as the sea; even as the clouds of heaven, shed ye life upon field and
hill, and like unto April winds, blow freshness through those human trees, and
bring them to their blossoming.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of
‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
