It befitteth the friends to hold a gathering, a meeting,
where they shall glorify God and fix their hearts upon Him, and read and recite
the Holy Writings of the Blessed Beauty - may my soul be the ransom of His
lovers! The lights of the All-Glorious Realm, the rays of the Supreme Horizon,
will be cast upon such bright assemblages, for these are none other than the
Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs, the Dawning-Points of God's Remembrance, which must, at the
direction of the Most Exalted Pen, be established in every hamlet and city….
These spiritual gatherings must be held with the utmost purity and consecration,
so that from the site itself, and its earth and the air about it, one will
inhale the fragrant breathings of the Holy Spirit.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections
from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá’; compilation ‘Baha’i Meetings’, prepared by
the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)
