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Peace : an outcome of spiritual power
While ‘Abdu’l-Bahá promoted and encouraged all efforts towards peace, He also indicated that “It is self-evident that the unity of the human world and the Most Great Peace cannot be accomplished through material means. They cannot be established through political power,” He said, “for the political interests of nations are various and the policies of peoples are divergent and conflicting. They cannot be founded through racial or patriotic power, for these are human powers, selfish and weak.” The one power that can hope to bind together all people is religion. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá taught that once freed from “adherence to forms and imitations” which are the cause of the differences between religious groups, the vital power that is religion has the capability to break down all differences between people.
Let the Religions Agree and Make the Nations One: “…the fundamentals of religion are intended to unify and bind together; their purpose is universal, everlasting peace…. In Persia Bahá’u’lláh was able to unite people of varying thought, creed and denomination. The inhabitants of that country were Christians, Muslims, Jews, Zoroastrians and a great variety of subdivided forms and beliefs together with racial distinctions such as Semitic, Arabic, Persian, Turk, etc.; but through the power and efficacy of religion Bahá’u’lláh united these differing peoples and caused them to consort together in perfect agreement. Such unity and accord became manifest among them that they were considered as one people and one kind.”
World Peace | 'Abdu'l-Bahá in America
While ‘Abdu’l-Bahá promoted and encouraged all efforts towards peace, He also indicated that “It is self-evident that the unity of the human world and the Most Great Peace cannot be accomplished through material means. They cannot be established through political power,” He said, “for the political interests of nations are various and the policies of peoples are divergent and conflicting. They cannot be founded through racial or patriotic power, for these are human powers, selfish and weak.” The one power that can hope to bind together all people is religion. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá taught that once freed from “adherence to forms and imitations” which are the cause of the differences between religious groups, the vital power that is religion has the capability to break down all differences between people.
Let the Religions Agree and Make the Nations One: “…the fundamentals of religion are intended to unify and bind together; their purpose is universal, everlasting peace…. In Persia Bahá’u’lláh was able to unite people of varying thought, creed and denomination. The inhabitants of that country were Christians, Muslims, Jews, Zoroastrians and a great variety of subdivided forms and beliefs together with racial distinctions such as Semitic, Arabic, Persian, Turk, etc.; but through the power and efficacy of religion Bahá’u’lláh united these differing peoples and caused them to consort together in perfect agreement. Such unity and accord became manifest among them that they were considered as one people and one kind.”
World Peace | 'Abdu'l-Bahá in America
