Therefore, O ye friends of God! Show ye forth an earnest endeavor and display ye a resolute effort, so that ye may become assisted in the adoration of the Ancient Beauty and the Manifest Light;
- to be the cause of spreading the light of the Sun of Truth;
- to infuse into the dead, antiquated body of the world a new spirit;
- to cast in the fields of the hearts pure seeds;
- to arise in the service of the Cause;
- to speak with eloquent tongues;
- to become candles of guidance in the assemblage of the world;
- to become shining stars in the horizon of the existent being;
- to become merciful birds in the rose-garden of oneness;
- to sing the melodies of realities and significances;
- to spend every breath of your lives in the most great Cause; and
- to devote the period of your existence to the service of this conspicuous Light;
so that in the end ye may be freed from loss and failure and attain to the inexhaustible treasury of the Kingdom.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of
‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 3)
