The All-Merciful hath created humankind for the adornment of
this contingent world, so that men may array the earth with the manifold
blessings of Heaven; that the inner reality of the human being may, like unto a
lamp of the spirit, cause the community of man to become as a mirror for the assemblage
on high.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, ‘The Compilation of Compilations, vol.
I, Baha’i Education’)
