All the religions are revealed for the sake of good
fellowship. The fundamentals, the
foundations of all are fellowship, unity and love. The heavenly books were revealed and divine
love bestowed to bring about peace. What
has man made of religion? He has made it
the cause of bloodshed and strife; enmity and hatred. Religion was destined to be a remedy for the
sickness of humanity; an illumination for the darkness of uncertainty. Have we then forgotten the divine teachings,
cast aside the heavenly books, created imaginary thoughts and illusions and
made them the basis of rancour and strife?
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, January
16, 1913, Clifton, England; Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 1, March 21, 1913)
