Question: Will the stations of the believers continue to be different
hereafter?
'Abdu'l-Baha answered:
"Yes, it will be necessarily so, for the Kingdom requires it.
"Yes, it will be necessarily so, for the Kingdom requires it.
"The King appoints one to be his prime minister, another
to be his greatest general, another a soldier, and so on from the highest to the
lowest. If all were generals or all were soldiers, there would be no kingdom.
"God created the mineral, the vegetable, the animal,
and man. Had He created only man there would be no world."
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, recorded by Helen Goodall and Ella
Goodall Cooper during their pilgrimage in 1908; ‘Daily Lessons Received at Akka
January 1908’)
