When they exiled us from Persia, from
Tehran to Baghdad, the journey was made in thirty stages and in these thirty
stages we did not find one Baha’i. Now in every one of these places there are
great numbers of Baha’i friends.
Notwithstanding that the ruler of Persia
and the Sultan of Turkey opposed the Cause so violently exercising tyranny and
oppression thinking to extinguish the Lamp of God yet this Lamp day by day grew
in radiance, its power increased and its illumination became greater, until it
reached such a degree that now its lights are spread throughout the world even
as far as San Francisco, which is very far from Persia. See what this will mean
in the future!
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, San Francisco, October 5, 1912; Star
of the West, vol. 10, no. 13, November 4, 1919) (To read the entire talk please
visit: Talks
of ‘Abdu’l-Baha)
