It is incumbent upon you to strip yourselves of every old
garment (i.e., old beliefs and past customs). It is incumbent upon you to be
severed from this contemptible earthly world. It is incumbent upon you (to seek
after) the Kingdom, in this great Day!
Purify ye your hearts, sanctify your souls and cleanse your
spirits; so that ye may attain to this great success. Then ye will become the
angels of heaven, will enter among the Supreme Concourse and will permanently
abide in the paradise of union (with God), and will be associated with the
Beauty of Abha.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1)
