Praise be to Him! The renown of His Cause hath reached to
east and west, and word of the power of the Abhá Beauty hath quickened north
and south. That cry from the American continent is a choir of holiness, that
shout from far and near that riseth even to the Company on high is ‘Yá Bahá’u’l-Abhá!’
Now is the east lit up with a glory, and the west rose-sweet, and all the earth
is fragrant with ambergris, and the winds that blow over the Holy Shrine are
laden with musk. Erelong shall ye see that even the darkest lands are bright,
and the continents of Europe and Africa have turned into gardens of flowers,
and forests of blossoming trees.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings
of ‘Abdu’l-Baha)
