Therefore, in thanksgiving for His [Baha’u’llah’s] divine
confirmations, let us strive by day and by night to exalt His Word, to be
consumed by the fire of His love, and to raise our voices in His remembrance
and praise. Given such tender mercies, such bestowals, such aid and assistance,
how can we remain still? How can we sit silent? O how pitiful it would be, were
we to tarry, to hesitate, or to fail to offer up our souls! How pitiful, were
we to set our hearts on ephemeral attachments rather than quaff of this mystic
wine! Woe unto us should we remain occupied with our selfish desires, busy
ourselves with our own earthly concerns, and follow the promptings of such
passions as deprive us of these bounties and deny us a portion of these bright
effulgences. By my life! This, verily, would be naught but manifest loss. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; ‘Light of the World’)
