O ye Cohorts of God! Through the protection and help of the
Blessed Perfection—may my life be a sacrifice to His beloved ones! —you must
conduct and deport yourselves in such a manner that you may stand out among
other souls distinguished by a brilliancy like unto the sun. If any one of you
enters a city he must become the center of attraction because of the sincerity,
faithfulness, love, honesty, fidelity, truthfulness and loving-kindness of his
disposition and nature toward all the inhabitants of the world, that the people
of the city may all cry out: “This person is unquestionably a Bahai; for his
manners, his behaviour, his conduct, his morals, his nature and his disposition
are of the attributes of the Bahais.” Until you do attain to this station, you
have not fulfilled the Covenant and the Testament of God. For according to the
irrefutable texts, He has taken from us a firm covenant that we may live and
act in accord with the divine exhortations, commands and lordly teachings.
- ‘Abdu'l-Baha (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha vol. 1)
