…when Moses appeared they erred anew, for Pharaoh’s people
regarded the teachings and the law of Moses as mere fancy and accorded them no
importance, considering their own ideas to represent the truth. But after a short time it became clear and
evident that what Moses had proclaimed was indeed the truth and had come to
pass, that the religion of God had been put into full effect and had secured
the honour and advancement of all Israel, and that it was the thoughts and
imaginations of the Egyptians that were the idle fancies...
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From
a talk, new resources prepared by the Baha’i World Center, 2019; Baha’i
Reference Library)
