Retribution
O Ye Peoples of the World! Know verily that an unforeseen calamity is following you and that grievous retribution awaiteth you.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Hidden Words, Persian 63
However, this ultimate goal could not be attained, and men were deprived thereof by virtue of their evil deeds, which brought upon them the retribution of God, in accordance with the basic principles of His divine rule.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 177
Quote of the Day
Kamal 12 Jalal 183 B.E.
If . . . it consists in empty, profitless debates and in a vain concatenation of imaginings that lead to no result except acrimony, why devote one's life to such useless hairsplittings and disputes.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá – The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 106