Indulge not your bodies with rest, but work with all your
souls, and with all your hearts cry out and beg of God to grant you His succour
and grace. Thus may ye make this world the Abhá Paradise, and this globe of
earth the parade ground of the realm on high. If only ye exert the effort, it
is certain that these splendours will shine out, these clouds of mercy will
shed down their rain, these life-giving winds will rise and blow, this
sweet-smelling musk will be scattered far and wide.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Selections
from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
