You have written that there is a difference among the believers concerning
the “Second Coming of Christ.” Praise be to God!—time and again this
question hath arisen and its answer hath emanated in a clear and
irrefutable text from the pen of Abdul-Baha that what is meant in the
prophecies by the “Lord of Hosts,” the “Promised Christ” is the Blessed
Perfection (Baha’o’llah) and His Highness the Supreme (the Bab). The faith
of everyone must resolve around this palpable and evident text.
My name is Abdul-Baha, my identity is Abdul-Baha, my qualification is
Abdul-Baha, my reality is Abdul-Baha, my praise is Abdul-Baha. Thraldom to
the Blessed Perfection is my glorious and refulgent diadem; and servitude
to all the human race is my perpetual religion. Through the bounty and
favor of the Blessed Perfection, Abdul-Baha is the Ensign of the
Most-Great-Peace, which is waving from the Supreme Apex; and through the
gift of the Greatest name, he is the Lamp of Universal Salvation, which is
shining with the light of the love of God. The Herald of the Kingdom is
he, so that he may awaken the people of the East and of the West. The
Voice of Friendship, Uprightness, Truth and Reconciliation is he, so as to
cause acceleration throughout all regions. No name, no title, no mention,
no commendation hath he nor will ever have except Abdul-Baha. This is my
longing. This is my supreme apex. This is my greatest yearning. This is my
eternal life. This is my everlasting glory! Express ye the same thing
which is issued from my pen. This is the duty of all. Consequently the
friends of God must assist and help Abdul-Baha in the adoration of the
True One; in the servitude to the human race; in the well-being of the
human world and in divine love and kindness.
O ye friends of God! Through the Appearance of the Blessed Perfection the
theories are abrogated and the facts are established. The time of
superficiality is gone by and the cycle of reality hath appeared. One must
become the incarnation of Servitude, the personification of Love, the
embodiment of Spirituality and the mirror of Mercy.
The believers must become the cause of life; deliver the people from
heedlessness, call the souls to the perfection of humanity, beckon nations
to unity and agreement, destroy the foundations of foreignness, make
everyone as friends and associates, treat the negligent souls as their own
children, and train and educate them with the utmost love—so that the
ignorant become wise, the blind become endowed with sight, and the deaf be
given hearing.
O ye friends of God! Beware! Beware of differences! By differences the
Temple of God is razed to its very foundation, and by the blowing of the
winds of disagreement the Blessed Tree is prevented from producing any
fruit. By the intense cold of the diversity of opinions the rose-garden of
Unity is withered, and the fire of the love of God is extinguished!
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