Among these half
animal people Muhammad was sent with His divine Message. He taught the people
that idol worship was wrong, but that they should reverence Christ, Moses and
the Prophets. Under His influence they became a more enlightened and civilized
people and arose from the degraded state in which He found them.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, Paris, October 27, 1911; ‘Paris Talks’)
