Today all the communities of the world
are engaged in fighting and quarreling with each other. There is a religious
strife, a sectarian strife, racial bias, patriotism, political contentions,
commercial competition, industrial rivalry and a battle to defend their honor. In
reality these strifes are continual, and there is no cessation or interruption
thereto.
Now consider ye with what power and strength,
love and devotion, union and harmony, happiness and joy the friends of God must
arise, so that they may reconcile and crystallize together these different
fighting and quarreling communities. Were it not for the confirmations of the
Word of God the realization of these facts would have been impossible and
improbable. But the confirmation of the Kingdom of God, the penetration of the
Word of God, the illumination of the Divine Teachings, the instructions and
advices of Baha’u’llah will solve these problems and ere long the Tabernacle of
the Oneness of humanity will be raised in all regions, the beloved will find
great rejoicing and beatitude and like unto the luminous stars they will shine
from the horizon of sanctity. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 6,
June 24, 1910)
