Indeed, the attacks and the obstructiveness of the ignorant
but cause the Word of God to be exalted, and spread His signs and tokens far
and wide. Were it not for this opposition by the disdainful, this obduracy of
the slanderers, this shouting from the pulpits, this crying and wailing of
great and small alike, these accusations of unbelief levelled by the ignorant,
this uproar from the foolish—how could news of the advent of the Primal Point
and the bright dawning of the Day-Star of Bahá ever have reached to east and
west? How else could the planet have been rocked from pole to pole? How else
could Persia have become the focal point of scattering splendours, and Asia
Minor the radiating heart of the beauty of the Lord? However else could the
flame of the Manifestation have spread into the south? By what means could the
cries of God have been heard in the far north? How else could His summons have
been heard in the continents of America and of Africa…?
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
