…O ye servants of God and the maid-servants of the Merciful
One, do ye not rest for one moment! Do ye not seek any composure! Do ye not
wish for any rest and ease! endeavor and make ye an effort with all your heart
and soul to spread the fragrances of Paradise, to raise the eternal melody of
the Kingdom of Abha, to establish the gathering of fellowship, to become
assisted with the confirmations of the Holy Spirit; to clothe the temple of
existence with a new garment; to bestow eternal life upon the reality of souls;
to become a cause of the civilization of the human world; to characterize the
bloodthirsty animals with the heavenly attributes and divine commemorations; to
pacify the world with peace and salvation, and to adorn man with the favors of
His Highness the Merciful One; that perchance ignorance, animosity and strangeness
may be removed entirely from among the denizens of the world, and the Banner of
Reconciliation, Freedom, Nobleness and Oneness be hoisted; for the chains of
existence contain countless links, each connected with the other. This
connection is the cause of the appearance of the invisible powers of the world
of the visible.
(‘Abdu'l-Baha, ‘Tablets of ‘Abdu'l-Baha’ vol. 3)
