O ye divine believers! Today any soul who is a teacher of
the Cause is confirmed. The teachers are in the front rank, are favored at the
Threshold of the Almighty and helped from the Kingdom of Abha! The believers of
God must exercise the utmost love, respect and consideration towards the
teachers so that in whatever place they may enter, joy and happiness be
obtained. But regarding the qualifications of the teachers, they are revealed
in the Divine Tablets. They must adorn themselves with those attributes. I
declare by God, beside whom there is no God, that if today a weak mosquito is
characterized with the qualifications of the teachers and summons the people to
the Divine Kingdom, it will become a soaring falcon of heaven, and the
ephemeral moth will be changed into an eagle of the apex of the Merciful; the
drop will be transformed into a surging ocean, and the atom will emit the
brilliancy of the sun.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, ‘Star of the West, vol. 5,
no. 14, November 23, 1914)
