Remember how Adam and the others once dwelt together in
Eden. No sooner, however, did a quarrel break out between Adam and Satan than
they were, one and all, banished from the Garden, and this was meant as a
warning to the human race, a means of telling humankind that dissension—even
with the Devil—is the way to bitter loss. This is why, in our illumined age,
God teacheth that conflicts and disputes are not allowable, not even with Satan
himself.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
