If a Persian comes from the East to those parts—supposing the impossible: Although he may be my own son, or the only daughter of Abdul-Baha—without having in his hand an epistle with my own hand and my own signature, to meet and hold conversation with him is forbidden. For whosoever goes to America without permission has no other aim save sedition and the violation of the Covenant.
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(From a Tablet to the friends of God and the maid-servants
of the Merciful, United States of America; translated on April 19, 1914; Star
of the West, vol. 6, no.12, October 16, 1915)
[1] These words are in the handwriting of Abdu’l-Baha
