It is impossible that this great bounty should cease, that
this divine bestowal should end and that the Sun of Reality should sink forever
into a setting not followed by a sunrise, a death not followed by a revival.
How can the Sun of Reality, shining from the divine world, remain set forever
and be precluded from educating the world of existence? No, by God! The
function of the sun is to give illumination. How can it set forever and its
effulgence brought to an end? Its bounty is eternal, its luster is ever
manifest, its rays are perpetually radiant, its breezes are continually wafting
and its bestowals are ever apparent. We must be expectant and hopeful, turning
our gaze in the direction of His bountiful Kingdom that through the appearance
of these holy Manifestations humanity may attain the blessings of the
All-Glorious, that the earth be changed and the contingent world may become a
garden and a paradise of delight.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha,
December 4, New York, recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
