O faithful ones! Should ye visit the resting-place of the
Most Exalted Leaf, who hath ascended unto the Glorious Companion, stand ye and
say: ‘Salutation and blessing and glory upon thee, O Holy Leaf that hath sprung
from the Divine Lote-Tree! I bear witness that thou hast believed in God and in
His signs, and answered His Call, and turned unto Him, and held fast unto His
cord, and clung to the hem of His grace, and fled thy home in His path, and
chosen to live as a stranger, out of love for His presence and in thy longing
to serve Him. May God have mercy upon him that draweth nigh unto thee, and
remembereth thee through the things which My Pen hath voiced in this, the most
great station. We pray God that He may forgive us, and forgive them that have
turned unto thee, and grant their desires, and bestow upon them, through His
wondrous grace, whatever be their wish. He, verily, is the Bountiful, the
Generous. Praise be to God, He Who is the Desire of all worlds; and the Beloved
of all who recognize Him.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted
by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated December 21, 1939; ‘Messages to America’)
