Wherefore, O my loving friends! Consort with all the
peoples, kindreds and religions of the world with the utmost truthfulness,
uprightness, faithfulness, kindliness, good-will and friendliness, that all the
world of being may be filled with the holy ecstasy of the grace of Bahá, that
ignorance, enmity, hate and rancor may vanish from the world and the darkness
of estrangement amidst the peoples and kindreds of the world may give way to
the Light of Unity. Should other peoples and nations be unfaithful to you show your
fidelity unto them, should they be unjust toward you show justice towards them,
should they keep aloof from you attract them to yourselves, should they show
their enmity be friendly towards them, should they poison your lives, sweeten
their souls, should they inflict a wound upon you, be a salve to their sores.
Such are the attributes of the sincere! Such are the attributes of the
truthful. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘The Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
