…Bahá’u’lláh, fifty years ago, expounded this question of
universal peace at a time when He was confined in the fortress of ‘Akká and was
wronged and imprisoned. He wrote about this important matter of universal peace
to all the great sovereigns of the world, and established it among His friends
in the Orient. The horizon of the East was in utter darkness, nations displayed
the utmost hatred and enmity towards each other, religions thirsted for each
other’s blood, and it was darkness upon darkness. At such a time Bahá’u’lláh
shone forth like the sun from the horizon of the east and illumined Persia with
the lights of these teachings.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From the first Tablet to the
Hague, 17 December 1919; “Abdu’l-Bahá’s Tablets to The Hague”, published by the
Baha’i World Center; Online Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World
Center)
