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wide world’s heart a re, and with bright rays of guidance blot out the armies of the night, and

then, for His sake, on the eld of sacri ce, ing down our lives.

Thus let us scatter over every people the treasured gems of the recognition of God, and with

the decisive blade of the tongue, and the sure arrows of knowledge, let us defeat the hosts of self

and passion, and hasten onward to the site of martyrdom, to the place where we die for the

Lord. And then, with ying ags, and to the beat of drums, let us pass into the realm of the

All-Glorious, and join the Company on high.

Well is it with the doers of great deeds.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, No 210

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Once again—and this time more fervently than ever before—I direct my plea to every single

member of this strenuously laboring, clear-visioned, stout-hearted, spiritually endowed
community, every man and woman, on whose individual e orts, resolution, self-sacri ce and

perseverance the immediate destinies of the Faith of God, now traversing so crucial a stage in its

rise and establishment, primarily depends, not to allow, through apathy, timidity or

complacency, this one remaining opportunity to be irretrievably lost. I would rather entreat

each and every one of them to immortalize this approaching, fateful hour in the evolution of a

World Spiritual Crusade, by a fresh consecration to their God-given mission, coupled with an

instantaneous plan of action

Shoghi E endi, Letter dated 21 September 1957, Citadel of Faith, p157

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