…O ye friends of God! Show ye forth an earnest endeavor and
display ye a resolute effort, so that ye may become assisted in the adoration
of the Ancient Beauty and the Manifest Light; to be the cause of spreading the
light of the Sun of Truth; to infuse into the dead, antiquated body of the
world a new spirit; to cast in the fields of the hearts pure seeds; to arise in
the service of the Cause; to speak with eloquent tongues; to become candles of
guidance in the assemblage of the world; to become shining stars in the horizon
of the existent being; to become merciful birds in the rose garden of oneness;
to sing the melodies of realities and significances; to spend every breath of
your existence in the service of this conspicuous light; so that in the end ye
may be freed from loss and failure and attain to the inexhaustible treasury of
the Kingdom.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 1,
March 21, 1913)
