Bahá’í Quotes

Armageddon

At Sacramento, California, on October 26, 1912, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said: -- "Today the European continent is like an arsenal. It is a storehouse of explosives, ready for just a spark, and one spark could set aflame the whole of Europe, particularly at this time, when the Balkan question is before the world."In many of His addresses in America and Europe He gave similar warning. In another address in California in October 1912 He said: --"We are on the eve of the Battle of Armageddon referred to in the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. The time is two years hence, when only a spark will set aflame thewhole of Europe. The social unrest in all countries, the growing religious scepticism antecedent to the millennium, and already here, will set aflame the whole of Europe as is prophesied in the Book of Daniel and in the Book (Revelation) of John. By 1917 kingdoms will fall and cataclysms will rock the earth." (Reported by Mrs. Corinne True in The North Shore Review, September 26, 1914, Chicago, U.S.A.)"

- Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, page 243

Quote of the Day

Istiqlal 7 Qawl 182 B.E.

Man must seek to gain the acceptance of God and not that of the different classes of men. If one is praised and chosen by God, the accusation of all the creatures will cause no loss to him; and if the man is not accepted in the threshold of God, the praise and admiration of all men will be of no use to him.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v1, p. 158