These human creatures are even as children, they are brash
and unconcerned. These children must be reared with infinite, loving care, and
tenderly fostered in the embraces of mercy, so that they may taste the
spiritual honey-sweetness of God’s love; that they may become like unto candles
shedding their beams across this darksome world, and may clearly perceive what
blazing crowns of glory the Most Great Name, the Ancient Beauty, hath set on
the brows of His beloved, what bounties He hath bestowed on the hearts of those
He holdeth dear, what a love He hath cast into the breasts of humankind, and
what treasures of friendship He hath made to appear amongst all men.
O God, my God! Aid Thou Thy trusted servants to have loving
and tender hearts. Help them to spread, amongst all the nations of the earth,
the light of guidance that cometh from the Company on high. Verily Thou art the
Strong, the Powerful, the Mighty, the All-Subduing, the Ever-Giving. Verily
Thou art the Generous, the Gentle, the Tender, the Most Bountiful.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
