1 December, 1911
Paris, France
I bid a loving farewell to the people of France and England.
I am very much pleased with them. I counsel them that they may day by day
strengthen the bond of love and amity to this end - that they may become the
sympathetic embodiment of one nation - that they may extend themselves to a
universal Brotherhood to guard and protect the interests and rights of all the
nations of the East - that they may unfurl the Divine Banner of justice - that
they may realize and treat each nation as a family composed of the individual
children of God and may know that before the sight of God the rights of all are
equal.
For all of us are the children of one Father. God is at
peace with all His children: why should
they engage in strife and warfare among themselves? God is showering down
kindness; why should the inhabitants of this world exchange unkindness and
cruelty?
"Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the fruits of
one branch."
Beware! Beware! Lest
ye offend any heart.
Beware! Beware! Lest
ye hurt any soul.
Beware! Beware! Lest
ye deal unkindly toward any person:
Beware! Beware! Lest
ye be the cause of hopelessness to any creature.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk,
December 1, 1911, Paris, France; ‘Star of the West Vol. 2, no. 16, December 31,
1911)
