July 4
You should exhort all the friends to
patience, to acquiescence, and to tranquillity, saying: O ye loved ones of God
in that land! Ye are glorified in all the worlds of God because of your
relationship to Him Who is the Eternal Truth, but in your lives on this earthly
plane, which pass away as a fleeting moment, ye are inflicted with abasement.
For the sake of the One True God, ye have been reviled and persecuted, ye have
been imprisoned, and surrendered your lives in His path. Ye should not,
however, by reason of the tyrannical acts of some heedless souls, transgress
the limits of God's commandments by contending with anyone. (Baha’u’llah, ‘Fire and Light: Excerpts from the Bahá'í
Sacred Writings by the Báb,
Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi’, compiled by Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice; The Baha’i World 1979-1983)
