O friends, show forth your fidelity! O my loved ones,
manifest your steadfastness and your constancy! O ye who invoke His Name, turn
ye and hold fast unto Him! O ye who lift up your hearts and implore His aid,
cling to Him and walk in His ways! It is incumbent upon every one of us to
encourage each other, to exert our utmost endeavour to diffuse His divine
fragrances and engage in exalting His Word. We must, at all times, be stirred
by the breeze that bloweth from the rose-garden of His loving-kindness, and be
perfumed with the fragrances of the mystic flowers of His grace.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in ‘Bahiyyih Khanum - The Greatest Holy Leaf’; a
compilation from Bahá'í sacred texts and writings of the Guardian of the Faith
and Bahiyyih Khanum's own letters compiled by The Research Department at the
Bahá'í World Centre 1982)
