Until now it never
happened that someone from the East, impelled by the promptings of his
conscience, should come to the West to see the friends of God and to associate
with respected individuals with such sincere love and friendship and without
any political or commercial motive or the desire of sightseeing. It is without
precedent and is not recorded in any history. If others have come, it has been
to sightsee or for commercial or other reasons.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, October 22, Los Angeles, USA,
recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
