O peoples of the world! The Sun of Truth hath risen to
illumine the whole earth, and to spiritualize the community of man. Laudable
are the results and the fruits thereof, abundant the holy evidences deriving
from this grace. This is mercy unalloyed and purest bounty; it is light for the
world and all its peoples; it is harmony and fellowship, and love and
solidarity; indeed it is compassion and unity, and the end of foreignness; it
is the being at one, in complete dignity and freedom, with all on earth.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha)