Remain
confident that your steadfastness in the face of countless struggles and your
sacrifices to advance the interests of your country will not be forgotten by
your compatriots and will be rewarded by God. Strive, then, with constancy and
steadfastness, with joy and radiance, to fulfil your spiritual obligations. In
all matters extend support and encouragement to one another and spare no effort
in strengthening the foundations of unity within your community. Persevere with
sincerity and earnestness to secure your rights through recourse to the law,
and deal with those who oppress you with loving kindness, with patience and
forbearance, and counter their insults with words of peace and affection.
Continue to strive in the arena of service to your homeland, and through your
participation in constructive discourse with your neighbours, co-workers,
friends and acquaintances, play a decisive role in society’s progress. Thus
will you behold the portals of Divine assistance wide open and witness the
bestowals of God descend upon you in abundance.
(The Universal House of
Justice, from a message dated 9 February 2009 to the Baha’is in Iran)
