This mountain [Carmel] is where Israel's prophets passed
their nights in prayers. Every step of it has been blessed by the footsteps of
the prophets .... This land will be the envy of the world, the center of arts
and sciences. 'Akka and Haifa will be connected and all the vacant lands will be
cultivated. All these caves that you see have been the abode of the prophets,
step by step. Every atom of this soil is holy. All the prophets, while praying,
longed to reach this day and give the glad tidings of the coming of the Lord. They
prophesied that the Lord of Hosts would come and the tent of the Lord would be
pitched on Mount Carmel. ... in all these mountains and caves the prophets of
God prayed at night, shed tears, and longed to be with us in these days of the
Blessed Beauty. Since I am a prisoner and cannot move, you make a pilgrimage on
My behalf. My utmost desire is to go and visit in freedom, but I cannot. You go on behalf of 'Abdu'l-Baha and make a pilgrimage to
all of the Holy Places ... and beseech God's bounty. I cannot go. I am a prisoner.
I am reincarcerated, and I have no permission to go out. The government
prohibits me.
-‘Abdu’l-Baha (From
talks to pilgrim in 1907; ’Memories of Dr. Habib Mu’ayyad’, pp. 19, 21, 22, 53;
include in the book: ‘Zikrullah Khadem, The Itinerant Hand of the Cause of
God’)
Many Israelitish prophets either lived here or passed a
portion of their lives or sojourned for a while or spent the last days of their
existence on this mountain.... Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, David, Solomon, Moses,
Isaiah, Zechariah and, last of all, Christ. Elijah lived on Mount Carmel. ...
His Holiness Christ came to this holy mountain many times.
~ ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk in 1914, quoted in Mirza Ahmad
Sohrab, ‘Mount Carmel, the Vineyard of God,’ in Star of the West, vol. 14, no.
5, August 1923; include in the book: ‘Zikrullah Khadem, The Itinerant Hand of
the Cause of God’)
