O ye lovers of God! The world is even as a human being who
is diseased and impotent, whose eyes can see no longer, whose ears have gone
deaf, all of whose powers are corroded and used up. Wherefore must the friends
of God be competent physicians who, following the holy Teachings, will nurse
this patient back to health. Perhaps, God willing, the world will mend, and
become permanently whole, and its exhausted faculties will be restored, and its
person will take on such vigour, freshness and verdancy that it will shine out
with comeliness and grace.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of
‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
