…consider the welding power of His [Muhammad’s] Word. Observe, how
those in whose midst the Satan of self had for years sown the seeds of malice
and hate became so fused and blended through their allegiance to this wondrous
and transcendent Revelation that it seemed as if they had sprung from the same
loins. Such is the binding force of the Word of God, which uniteth the hearts
of them that have renounced all else but Him, who have believed in His signs,
and quaffed from the Hand of glory the Kawthar of God’s holy grace.
Furthermore, how numerous are those peoples of divers beliefs, of conflicting
creeds, and opposing temperaments, who, through the reviving fragrance of the
Divine springtime, breathing from the Ridván of God, have been arrayed with the
new robe of divine Unity, and have drunk from the cup of
His singleness!
This is the significance of the well-known words: “The wolf and
the lamb shall feed together.” [Isaiah 65:25] Behold the ignorance and folly of those who,
like the nations of old, are still expecting to witness the time when these
beasts will feed together in one pasture! Such is their low estate. Methinks,
never have their lips touched the cup of understanding, neither have their feet
trodden the path of justice. Besides, of what profit would it be to the world
were such a thing to take place? How well hath He spoken concerning them:
“Hearts have they, with which they understand not, and eyes have they with
which they see not!” [Qur’án 7:178]
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
