O friends! It is the wish of Abdul-Baha that the friends may establish general unity and not a particular meeting of unity. You must have great consideration for this fact, for during the past cycles though such events were, in the beginning, a means for harmony, they became in the end the cause of trouble.
We are all servants of one Threshold, attendants at one Court, waves of one sea, drops of one stream, the dust before one door and plants of one garden. There must arise no trouble to deprive one from that which is the real purpose. The beloved of God must be friendly even with strangers and intimate even with outsiders—how much more with others among the righteous!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet to the Spiritual Assembly of Tihran, Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
