O how I yearn to see the friends united like unto a strand
of shining pearls like the brilliant Pleiades, like the rays of the sun and the
gazelles of one meadow! The nightingale of significance is singing for them;
will they not listen? The bird of paradise is warbling; will they not heed? The
Angel of the Kingdom of Abha is calling to them; will they not hearken? The
Messenger of the Covenant is pleading; will they not obey?
- ‘Abdu’l-Bha (From
a talk, April 2, 1914, Holy Land, ‘Diary of Ahmad Sohrab’; Star of the West,
vol. 5, no. 7, July 13, 1914)
