O Thou Omnipotent God! Perfume the nostrils of the friends
in the Occident with the breaths of the Holy Spirit; and illumine the horizon
of the West with the light of guidance. Make the remote ones the near ones,
change the strangers into compassionate friends, awaken those who are asleep,
and make heedful those who are heedless.
O Thou Glorious Lord! Confirm and assist these noble friends
with Thy good pleasure, suffer them to become the well-wishers of the known and
unknown, enter them in the world of the everlasting Kingdom, confer upon them a
share from the outpouring of the Realm of Might, make them real Baha’is and
sincere godly ones, deliver them from superficiality and establish them in
Truth, make them the signs of the Kingdom and brilliant stars in the horizon of
the world, make them the cause of the prosperity and composure of the world of
humanity and the servants of the universal peace, intoxicate all of them with
the wine of Thy commands and exhortations and grant to all good morals and
conduct in the path of Thy teachings.
O my God! The desire of this Servant of the Threshold is to
see that the friends of the West have embraced the beloved of the East, and the
individuals of the world of humanity are with the utmost kindness the members
of one assemblage, the drops of one ocean, the birds of one rose-garden, the
pearls of one sea, the leaves of one tree and the rays of one sun.
- Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
