Praise be to God that He has given you
a prosperous country. Towns are flourishing, commerce is progressing and the
outward evidences of prosperity are displayed with utmost beauty and
perfection. But all these things are as nothing when compared to the bounties
of God. The whole globe is nothing before one ray of the Sun of Truth. Thus it
is said in the Gospel that Satan took Christ to the top of a high mountain,
showed Him the world outspread and told Him that he would give Him all these
things if he would follow him. But Christ refused.
(Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 18
September 1912, Minneapolis, USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
