…this earthly world is narrow, dark and frightful, rest
cannot be imagined and happiness really is non-existent, everyone is captured
in the net of sorrow, and is day and night enslaved by the chain of calamity;
there is no one who is at all free or at rest from grief and affliction. Still,
as the believers of God are turning to the limitless world, they do not become
very depressed and sad by disastrous calamities—there is something to console
them; but the others in no way have anything to comfort them at the time of calamity.
Whenever a calamity and a hardship occurs, they become sad and disappointed,
and hopeless of the bounty and the mercy of the Glorious Lord.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
