O friends! Black clouds have shrouded all this earth, and the darkness of
hatred and malice, of cruelty and aggression and defilement is
spreading far and wide. The people, one and all, live out their lives in
a heedless stupor and the chief virtues of man are held to be his
rapacity and his thirst for blood. Out of all the mass of humankind God
hath chosen the friends, and He hath
favoured them with His guidance and boundless grace. His purpose is
this, that we, all of us, should strive with our whole hearts to offer
ourselves up, guide others to His path, and train the souls of men—until
these frenzied beasts change to gazelles in the meadows of oneness, and
these wolves to lambs of God, and these brutish creatures to angelic
hosts; till the fires of hatred are quenched, and the flame coming out
of the sheltered vale of the Holy Shrine doth shed its splendours; till
the foul odour of the tyrant’s dunghill is blown away, and yieldeth to
the pure, sweet scents that stream from the rosebeds of faith and trust.
On that day will the weak of intellect draw on the bounty of the
divine, Universal Mind, and they whose life is but abomination will seek
out these cleansing, holy breaths.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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