…the people of religions find, in the teachings of
Bahá’u’lláh, the establishment of Universal Religion—a religion that perfectly
conforms with present conditions, which in reality effects the immediate cure
of the incurable disease, which relieves every pain, and bestows the infallible
antidote for every deadly poison. For if we wish to arrange and organize the
world of mankind in accordance with the present religious imitations and
thereby to establish the felicity of the world of mankind, it is impossible and
impracticable—for example, the enforcement of the laws of the Torah and also of
the other religions in accordance with present imitations. But the essential
basis of all the Divine Religions which pertains to the virtues of the world of
mankind and is the foundation of the welfare of the world of man, is found in
the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh in the most perfect presentation. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From the First Tablet to the Hague, 17 December 1919; revised translation under
the direction of the Universal House of Justice, available at the online
‘Baha’i Reference Library’ site of the Baha’i World Center)
