Today, all the
peoples of the world are indulging in self-interest and exert the utmost effort
and endeavour to promote their own material interests. They are worshipping
themselves and not the divine reality, nor the world of mankind. They seek
diligently their own benefit and not the common weal. This is because they are
captives of the world of nature and unaware of the divine teachings, of the
bounty of the Kingdom and of the Sun of Truth. But ye, praise be to God, are at
present especially favoured with this bounty, have become of the chosen, have
been informed of the heavenly instructions, have gained admittance into the
Kingdom of God, have become the recipients of unbounded blessings and have been
baptized with the Water of Life, with the fire of the love of God and with the
Holy Spirit.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
