“Over the span of His life, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá laboured tirelessly in service to Bahá’u’lláh”

Over the span of His life, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá laboured tirelessly in service to Bahá’u’lláh, fulfilling, in its entirety, His Father’s sacred trust.

• He faithfully nurtured and protected the precious seed that had been planted.
• He sheltered the Cause in the cradle of its birth and, guiding its spread in the West, established there the cradle of its administration.
• He set firm the footsteps of the believers and raised up a cohort of champions and saints.
• With His own hands, He interred the holy remains of the Báb in the mausoleum He raised on Mount Carmel,
• devotedly tended the twin Holy Shrines, and
• laid the foundations of the Faith’s world administrative centre.
• He safeguarded the Faith from its avowed enemies, internal and external.
• He revealed the precious Charter for sharing Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings with all peoples across the globe,
• as well as the Charter that called into being and set in motion the processes of the Administrative Order.
• His life spanned the entire period of the Heroic Age inaugurated by the declaration of the Báb;
• His ascension ushered in a new Age whose features were as yet unknown to the believers.

- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 28 November 2023 addressed to the Bahá’ís of the World; online Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World Center)