As to the ordeals of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, his trials and calamities, grieve not on that account, but rather be in perfect happiness and joy, for—praise be to God!—he was worthy and deserved these trials in the Path of Baha’.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet to the Spiritual Assembly of New York; ‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)