Endeavor to keep
your hearts sanctified and your intentions pure so that you may attract divine
bounties. Remember, although the sun shines equally on all things, yet in the
mirror its effulgence is intense, and not in the dark stone. The cause of this
intensity and heat in the glass is its purity; without purity and cleanliness,
these effects would never appear in it. Similarly, if rain fall on barren land,
it produces nothing, but if it fall on pure fertile land, it makes it verdant
and causes it to yield a harvest. This is the day in which only pure and chaste
hearts can derive benefit from the eternal bounties and only pious souls can
receive light from the ever-existent splendors.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a
talk given during His last day in Chicago, The Diary of Mirza Mahmud-i-Zarqani)
