- We must all become united and harmonized in order to illumine this gloomy world;
- to abolish the foundations of hostility and animosity from among mankind;
- to perfume the inhabitants of the universe with the holy fragrances of the nature and disposition of the Beauty of Abha;
- to enlighten the people of the East and West with the light of guidance;
- to hoist the tent of the love of God and suffer each and all to enter under its protection;
- to bestow comfort and tranquillity to every one under the shade of the Divine Tree;
- to astonish the enemy by the manifestation of the utmost love;
- to make the ravenous and bloodthirsty wolves to be gazelles of the meadow of the love of God;
- to administer the taste of non-resistance to the tyrant;
- to teach long-suffering and resignation of the martyrs to the murderer;
- to spread the traces of Oneness;
- to chant the praises and glorification of the Glorious Lord;
- to raise the voice of “Ya Baha’u’l-Abha!” to the Supreme Apex and to reach the ears of the inhabitants of the Kingdom with the outcry — “Verily the earth is illumined by the lights of its Lord!”
This is reality! This is guidance! This is service! This is the consummation of the perfection of the realm of humanity!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha ('Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. Vol. 2')
