From one end of the world to the other, the realm of
humanity is engaged in hostilities and war. There is enmity between the
religions. There is hatred between the classes. There is war between the
fatherlands. There is contention between the diplomats. How delightful it would
now be could these black clouds be dispersed from the horizon of the world, letting
the light of Reality shine; the dust of slaughter and the crime of shedding
blood be swept away; the breeze of providence from the Dawning-Place of Peace
and Salvation be wafted; thus the world would become a new world, and the face
of the earth receive new life from the rays of the divinely effulgent light of
God.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, reprinted from ‘The Christian Commonwealth’;
Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 1, March 21, 1913)
