‘Abdu'l-Baha in churches (lit, synagogues) and meetings in
many of the cities of Europe and America loudly proclaimed the Cause of His
Holiness Baha’u’llah and called (people) to the Kingdom of Abha. And he
(‘Abdu'l-Baha) brought forth luminous proofs and stated clear conclusions and
manifest arguments. There remained no excuse for any soul whatsoever, because
most of the talks were published in newspapers and spread in the world.
Notwithstanding this, still the people are captives in the sleep of negligence
and are prisoners of nature and inattentive to Reality. Still the people desire
material luxury to such a degree that Sur-i-Israfil (i.e. the trumpet of
Israfil [an angel] summoning mankind to resurrection) does not awaken them. Of
course this negligence, unthankfulness and unmindfulness are the causes of
regret, distress, war and dispute and produce devastation and misfortune. If
the people of the world do not turn to the Greatest Name, great misery will
follow.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 15,
December 12, 1914)
