During the Middle Ages, while Europe had sunk to the lowest
depths of barbarity, the Arabs excelled all other nations of the earth in
sciences and crafts, mathematics, civilization, governance, and other arts. The
Educator and Prime Mover of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, and the
Founder of the civilization of human perfections among those contending clans,
was an illiterate Man, Muhammad. Was this illustrious Man a universal Educator
or not? Let us be fair.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Table talks in Akka, authenticated by
‘Abdu’l-Baha; ‘Some Answered Questions’ – 2014 revised translation by the
Baha’i World Centre)
