During the ministry of Christ the Cause of God did not pass
beyond the regions of Jerusalem. Whatever else was achieved came afterwards.
Likewise in the days of the Prince of Mecca -- may the souls of the favoured
ones of God be offered up for His sake -- the reputation of His sublime Faith
was confined to the boundaries of Hijaz. However, the fame of this glorious
Cause reached the east and the west during the lifetime of the Blessed Beauty,
and Tablets were revealed for the crowned heads of the world.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Compilation: ‘Fire and
Light’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of
Justice; The Baha’i World 1979-1983)
