To turn to the Covenant is to obey the
Blessed Beauty which is a cause of gathering together the people of Bahá. Let
me explain clearly. The command to the people of Islam to prostrate before the
black stone was simply a command to obey the Prophet of God and to prove the
influence of the Cause of God. Now, were it not for the Word of the Blessed
Beauty, we would be like everyone else and not different in the least.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words
of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 27 September 1912, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA, recorded
by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
