The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by
day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its
plight, that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity
will long continue. And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly
appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only
then, will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
