Religion should be the cause of love and affection. Religion
should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of
the earth, give birth to spirituality, and bring life and light to each heart.
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it were better to
be without it, and to withdraw from such a religion would be a truly religious
act. For it is clear that the purpose of a remedy is to cure; but if the remedy
should only aggravate the complaint it had better be left alone. Any religion
which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion. All the holy prophets
were as doctors to the soul; they gave prescriptions for the healing of
mankind; thus any remedy that causes disease does not come from the great and
supreme Physician. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk; ‘Paris Talks: Addresses given by
'Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris in 1911-1912’)
