Expend your every breath of life in this great Cause and
dedicate all your days to the service of Bahá, so that in the end, safe from
loss and deprivation, ye will inherit the heaped-up treasures of the realms
above. For the days of a man are full of peril and he cannot rely on so much as
a moment more of life; and still the people, who are even as a wavering mirage
of illusions, tell themselves that in the end they shall reach the heights.
Alas for them! The men of bygone times hugged these same fancies to their
breasts, until a wave flicked over them and they returned to dust, and they
found themselves excluded and bereft—all save those souls who had freed
themselves from self and had flung away their lives in the pathway of God.
Their bright star shone out in the skies of ancient glory, and the handed-down
memories of all the ages are the proof of what I say.Wherefore, rest ye neither day nor night and seek no ease. Tell ye the secrets of servitude, follow the pathway of service, till ye attain the promised succour that cometh from the realms of God.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
