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’)
