…after this universal war, the people have obtained
extraordinary capacity to hearken to the divine teachings, for the wisdom of
this war is this: That it may become proven to all that the fire of war is
world-consuming, whereas the rays of peace are world-enlightening. One is
death, the other is life; this is extinction, that is immortality; one is the
most great calamity, the other is the most great bounty; this is darkness, that
is light; this is eternal humiliation and that is everlasting glory; one is the
destroyer of the foundation of man, the other is the founder of the prosperity
of the human race.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Tablets of the Divine Plan’)
