…[be] mindful of one essential, practical point, namely:
that believers differ in their capacity, aptitude and approach, in their understanding,
wisdom and spiritual discipline, in their degree of commitment and willingness to
sacrifice, as well as in their personal preferences and priorities. As members
of a diverse but united community, then, you must remain, one and all, as
tightly bound as threads in the cord of the Covenant to which all must cling.
Be at all times a source of encouragement and support to one another, and
together seek after new avenues of service. In association with friends, neighbours
and acquaintances, may you dispel the darkness of iniquity and tyranny with the
light of love and fidelity. Pay no heed to rumours. Rather may you draw
sustenance from the power of unity and rely upon the penetrating influence of
“holy words and pure and goodly deeds” and “a virtuous life and a goodly
behaviour” — this, that you may become the cause of love, unity and harmony
within your community and among your fellow citizens. Be confident that every
step taken in the path of God with sincerity will attract heavenly
confirmations, for He “imparteth to the drop the power of the sea, and turneth
the atom into a very sun.”
(The
Universal House of Justice, from a message dated 31 October 2008 to the Baha’is
of Iran)
