The purpose of these statements is to make it abundantly
clear that the Divine religions, the holy precepts, the heavenly teachings, are
the unassailable basis of human happiness, and that the peoples of the world
can hope for no real relief or deliverance without this one great remedy. This
panacea must, however, be administered by a wise and skilled physician, for in
the hands of an incompetent all the cures that the Lord of men has ever created
to heal men’s ills could produce no health, and would on the contrary only
destroy the helpless and burden the hearts of the already afflicted.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘The Secret of Divine Civilization’)
