This terrestrial globe is a dark world of grossest matter.
It is a world of sorrow and grief; a world of disappointment and unhappiness; a
world of death. For the earth is after all the everlasting graveyard, the vast
cemetery of man. Yet men fight to possess this graveyard, waging war and
battle, killing one another. What an injustice is this! What ignorance! For the
earth after all is spacious, and can hold all. It is so allotted that every man
can derive his daily sustenance from it. The Lord does not suffer anyone to
starve. All can be blessed with the abundant bestowals of God. But on account
of pure superstitions, and by reason of old theological dogmas which have
nothing to do with the fundamentals of Divine Religion, for the sake of such
limitations, this bloodshed is taking place. [World War I]
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From
a Tablet, Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 13, November 4, 1914)
