O thou who art enamoured of the Covenant! The Blessed Beauty
hath promised this servant that souls would be raised up who would be the very
embodiments of guidance, and banners of the Concourse on high, torches of God’s
oneness, and stars of His pure truth, shining in the heavens where God reigneth
alone. They would give sight to the blind, and would make the deaf to hear;
they would raise the dead to life. They would confront all the peoples of the
earth, pleading their Cause with proofs of the Lord of the seven spheres.
It is my hope that in His bounty He will soon raise up these
souls, that His Cause may be exalted. The lodestone which will attract this
grace is staunchness in the Covenant. Render thou thanks unto God that thou art
firmest of the firm.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of
‘Abdu’l-Baha)
