Consider how the religions of God served the world of
humanity! How the religion of Torah became conducive to the glory and honor and
progress of the Israelitish nation! How the breaths of the Holy Spirit of His
Holiness Christ created affinity and unity between divergent communities and
quarreling families! How the sacred power of His Holiness Muhammad became the
means of uniting and harmonizing the contentious tribes and the different clans
of Peninsular Arabia—to such an extent that one thousand tribes were welded
into one tribe; strife and discord were done away with; all of them unitedly
and with one accord strove in advancing the cause of culture and civilization,
and thus were freed from the lowest degree of degradation, soaring toward the
height of everlasting glory! Is it possible to find a greater Collective Center
in the phenomenal world than this? In comparison to this divine Collective
Center, the national collective center, the patriotic collective center, the
political collective center and the cultural and intellectual collective center
are like child’s play!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of the Divine Plan’)
