O thou son of the Kingdom! Consider the bounty of the Lord
and the gifts of thy Creator. He hath chosen thee to love Him and selected thee
from among His beings to know Him and distinguished thee particularly with the
gift of dazzling light through which the faces of the righteous will shine.
Verily I say unto thee that this gift now signifieth a globule and a date stone
which shall spring up and grow until it becometh a tree of solid root and the
branches thereof will extend to the East and West. Then the tongues shall
utter: “This is naught but a great bounty!”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of
‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1)
