Ye observe to what a degree the world is in continual
turmoil and conflict, and to what a pass its nations have now come. Perchance
will the lovers of God succeed in upraising the banner of human unity, so that
the one-coloured tabernacle of the Kingdom of Heaven will cast its sheltering
shadow over all the earth; that misunderstandings among the world’s peoples
will vanish away; that all nations will mingle one with another, dealing with
one another even as the lover with his beloved.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from
the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
