How long this drowsiness and sleep! How long this ignorance
and blindness! How long this heedlessness and misery! How long this oppression
and injustice! How long this hatred and discord! How long this rage of ignorant
ones! How long this grasping with frail imaginations! How long this strife and
argument! How long this turmoil and these battles! How long these racial
prejudices! How long these patriarchal prejudices! How long these political
prejudices!
Does it not behoove the believers to have their hearts
submissive through the mentioning of God? Has God sealed the hearts and has the
eye become veiled with the clouds of injustice, that the souls are not aware of
God's bounty overflowing unto all?
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, Lake Geneva,
Switzerland, 1911; Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 10, September 8, 1914)
