O thou dear maid-servant of God!... I know that thou art in difficulty, but this
difficulty is conducive to the everlasting felicity and this weakness is
followed by the supreme strength. Consider thou how the faithful women in the
time of Christ, and after the departure of His Highness, underwent hardships!
What difficulties did they not bear; and what calamities did they not endure!
But that adversity and trial, misfortune and derision, became the cause of
imperishable and deathless glory and rest.
Do ye not look upon the beginning of the affairs; attach
your hearts to the ends and results. The present period is like unto the sowing
time. Undoubtedly it is impregnated with perils and difficulties, but in the
future many a harvest shall be gathered and benefits and results will come
apparent. When one considers the issue and the end, exhaustless joy and
happiness will dawn.
Live thou as far as thou art able according to the divine
commands and advices, because they are conducive to eternal life.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
