Should any soul become the cause of
grief to any heart or despondency to any soul, it is better for him to hide
himself in the lowest strata of the earth than to walk upon the earth. Should
any soul desire the abasement of his kind, undoubtedly his non-entity is better
for him, for his non-existence is better than his existence and his death
better than his life.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet, ‘Star of the West’, vol. 1,
no. 17, January 19, 1911)
