O ye kind brothers who tread the path of God! Render thanks to Him that ye have combined
both physical and spiritual brotherhood, that your inner reality hath become
even as the outer, and that your outer reality hath come to express the inner.
The sweetness of this brotherhood regaleth the soul and the savour of this
kinship delighteth the heart. Praise ye God that, even as thankful birds, ye
have built your nests in His gardens. And so will ye nestle together hereafter,
in the rose-garden of the All-Merciful in the Abhá Kingdom, upon the branches of
the divine Lote-Tree. For ye are birds of the meadow of guidance and the
nightingales of the bower of bounty. What a stupendous grace, what a mighty
bestowal is this! Render thanks, then, unto God for this abounding grace and
glorious attainment.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; compilation: ‘Family Life’,
prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, March
2008)
