Morning
The first Spirit through which all spirits were revealed, and the first Light by which all lights shone forth, rest upon thee, O Most Exalted Leaf, [1] thou who hast been mentioned in the Crimson Book! Thou art the one whom God created to arise and serve His own Self, and the Manifestation of His Cause, and the Day-Spring of His Revelation, and the Dawning-Place of His signs, and the Source of His commandments; and Who so aided thee that thou didst turn with thy whole being unto Him, at a time when His servants and handmaidens had turned away from His Face. ...Happy art thou, O My handmaiden, and My Leaf, and the one mentioned in My Book, and inscribed by My Pen of Glory in My Scrolls and Tablets. ...Rejoice thou, at this moment, in the most exalted Station and the All-highest Paradise, and the Abhá Horizon, inasmuch as He Who is the Lord of Names hath remembered thee. We bear witness that thou didst attain unto all good, and that God hath so exalted thee, that all honor and glory circled around thee.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter
dated December 21, 1939; ‘Messages to America’)
[1] “the mother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”
Evening
It behoves each one of you to manifest the attributes of
God, and to exemplify by your deeds and words the signs of His righteousness,
His power and glory.
- The Báb (Quoted by Nabil-A'zam in ‘The Dawn-Breakers’,
translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)
