I am bearing the discomforts of this
journey with stopovers so that the Cause of God may be protected from any
breach. For I am still not sure about what is going to happen after me. If I
could be sure, then I would sit comfortably in some corner, I would not leave
the Holy Land and travel far away from the Most Holy Tomb. Once, after the
martyrdom of the Báb, the Cause of God was dealt a hard blow through Yahyá.
Again, after the ascension of the Blessed Beauty, it received another blow. And
I fear that self-seeking persons may again disrupt the love and unity of the
friends. If the time were right and the House of Justice were established, the
House of Justice would protect the friends.
(Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 16
September 1912, Chicago, USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
