As to those souls who are
preaching the Word of God, it behooveth them to shake the dust of every land
which they have passed by off their shoes and to be with God and without need
of the rich—although their bed is the soil, their light is the stars of the sky
and their food is the herbs of the desert—because theirs is the wealth of the
Kingdom, the honor of the realm of might and the bounty of the divine world;
and they are not in want of this world and its cares. Their throne is the mat
of humility, their honor is in suffering every lowliness in the path of the
Loving Lord and their wealth is being empty-handed from the pomps of the world
and its vanities and their provision is trusting in God and being severed from
all that is on the earth and its wealth.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Tablets of
‘Abdu’l-Baha’, vol. 1)
