Truly, blessed souls have been elected. The moment I read
their names, I felt a thrill of spiritual joy to know that, praised be God,
persons have been raised up in that country who are servants of the Kingdom,
and ready to lay down their lives for Him Who hath neither likeness nor peer.
O ye dear friends of mine! Light up this Assembly with the
splendour of God’s love. Make it ring out with the joyous music of the hallowed
spheres, make it thrive on those foods that are served at the Lord’s Supper, at
the heavenly banquet table of God. Come ye together in gladness unalloyed, and
at the beginning of the meeting, recite ye this prayer:
O Thou Lord of the Kingdom! Though our
bodies be gathered here together, yet our spellbound hearts are carried away by
Thy love, and yet are we transported by the rays of Thy resplendent face. Weak
though we be, we await the revelations of Thy might and power. Poor though we
be, with neither goods nor means, still take we riches from the treasures of
Thy Kingdom. Drops though we be, still do we draw from out Thy ocean deeps.
Motes though we be, still do we gleam in the glory of Thy splendid Sun.
O Thou our Provider! Send down Thine
aid, that each one gathered here may become a lighted candle, each one a centre
of attraction, each one a summoner to Thy heavenly realms, till at last we make
this nether world the mirror image of Thy Paradise.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections
from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
