It is incumbent upon you [1] to have union and harmony and
love and uprightness, and to be characterized with the morals of your Lord, the
Clement; to walk in the highway of equity and beneficence. Be ye manifestations
of the mercy of God, dawning-places of the light of His great bounty, and arise
with all steadfastness, truthfulness, trustworthiness, compassion, modesty,
love and accord with the people of the world, no matter of what community they
may be; inasmuch as it behooveth the light to shine even upon the rocks in the
field, and the soul is qualified for quickening individuals, even though they
be of the ugliest and most disagreeable form, and a pure tree is adapted to
bestow a blessed fruit even upon those who throw stones at it.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol, 2)
[1] The Counsel Board of West Hoboken, New Jersey
