Witnessing confirmations of Baha’u’llah

One day, when 'Abdu'l-Bahá was very tired, he said to several young Bahá'ís who came to see him: "My work is done. The tree of my life has yielded its fruits. I have set a fire in the world. Your duty is to add to its flame. My sons, it is now your turn. The members of my bodily constitution are well-nigh disintegrated. You are young, and your blood is pure; your intelligence is keen. You can bear the difficulties of this life. I would like to remain silent for some time, and listen to the incoming news of those who are endeavouring to spread the Fragrances of God. How far shall they succeed?  How will they promote the Word of God?  How will they raise the melodies and sing the songs of 'Yá Bahá'u'l-Abhá!'? Assuredly the Blessed Perfection is with such souls.  They shall see with their own eyes the confirmations of Bahá'u'lláh; just as I saw them when addressing large gatherings in churches and temples. I saw them hovering like the birds of paradise!" 

(From the Diary of Mírzá Ahmad Sohráb; Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 1, March 21, 1914)

The incredible transformation that Baha’u’llah will bring about to humanity

Nabil-i-Azam recorded several statements which were made by Bahá'u'lláh to certain Persian princes in Baghdad on the subject of the future nobility of mankind:

“My purpose in coming to this corrupt world where the tyrants and traitors, by their acts of cruelty and oppression, have closed the doors of peace and tranquility to all mankind, is to establish, through the power of God and His might, the forces of justice, trust, security and faith. For instance [in the future] should a woman ..., who is unsurpassed in her beauty and adorned with the most exquisite and priceless jewels, travel unveiled and alone, from the east of the world to the west thereof, passing through every land and journeying in all countries, there would be such a standard of justice, trustworthiness and faith on the one hand, and lack of treachery and degradation on the other, that no one would be found who would wish to rob her of her possessions or to cast a treacherous and lustful eye upon her beauteous chastity!...”  

“Through the power of God I shall transform the peoples of the world into this exalted state and shall open this most great door to the face of all humanity.” 

- Baha'u'llah  (Words of Baha’u’llah quoted by Nabil-‘A’zam in Panj Kanz (Five Treasures), unpublished, printed in ‘The Revelation of Baha’u’llah, vol. 2’, by Adib Taherzadeh)  

The Relation between Thought and Action

You must not only think thoughts, but do actions.  The reality of men is their thoughts and their spirits, not their material bodies.  Man and animal with regard to matter are partners. The difference is that man has the power of thought.

Thoughts may be divided into two classes: 

1.  The world of thought alone. 

2.  The world of thought which expresses itself in action. 

For instance, philosophers belong to the first class, for they only think heavenly thoughts and do not do heavenly deeds. Whereas spiritual teachers belong to the second class, for they express their high and noble thoughts in actions as soon as they think them. 

- 'Abdu'l-Baha  (Words of 'Abdu'l-Baha, from a talk, 18 October 1911, Paris, France; 'Star of the West’, vol.2, no. 16, December 31, 1911)