Now you must engage in the service of the Cause of God with
the utmost firmness, steadfastness and resolution, and expend day and night in
the promotion of the Religion of God. Do not unloose your tongues save for
conveying the Message! Do not behold save the Kingdom of Abha! Wish for no
other companion save the True One. Do ye not desire other associate save
turning thy face toward the Supreme Horizon. Do ye not search for any other
delicacy save the Heavenly Food, and do ye not hope for any other sweetness
save the love of the Beauty of Abha.
Praise be to God, that the Standard of Victory is unfurled
over that region, and the fame of The Covenant has reached the ear of every
wise and intelligent person.
Spiritual means are prepared. The Merciful Table is spread
and the Banquet and the Feast of the Lord is inexhaustible. Now is the time of
attraction and ecstasy so that region may become wholly illumined and that
worthless dust be changed into fragrant musk.
I declare by the Blessed Perfection [Baha’u’llah] -- May my
life be a sacrifice to His believers -- that if the believers arise to act
according to the good pleasure of the Blessed Perfection, the lights will be
revealed, the mysteries discovered, the veils rent asunder, the darkness
dispelled, the verses of unity chanted, and the melodies of the spiritual music
of the Glorious Lord sung!
Show ye an effort! Work unceasingly! Labor diligently! -- so
that the Everlasting Bounty be realized, Eternal Life be destined, and the
nostrils be perfumed with the Holy Fragrances!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet,
Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 1, March 21, 1914)
