To every generation of young believers comes an opportunity
to make a contribution to the fortunes of humanity, unique to their time of
life. For the present generation, the moment has come to reflect, to commit, to
steel themselves for a life of service from which blessing will flow in
abundance. In our prayers at the Sacred Threshold, we entreat the Ancient
Beauty that, from out a distracted and bewildered humanity, He may distil pure
souls endowed with clear sight: youth whose integrity and uprightness are not
undermined by dwelling on the faults of others and who are not immobilized by
any shortcomings of their own; youth who will look to the Master and
"bring those who have been excluded into the circle of intimate
friends"; youth whose consciousness of the failings of society impels them
to work for its transformation, not to distance themselves from it; youth who,
whatever the cost, will refuse to pass by inequity in its many incarnations and
will labour, instead, that "the light of justice may shed its radiance
upon the whole world."
(The Universal House of Justice, message to
the Baha’is of the World, Feb. 8, 2013)
