When they exiled us from Persia, from Tehran to Baghdad,
the journey was made in thirty stages and in these thirty stages we did not
find one Baha’i. Now in every one of these places there are great numbers of
Baha’i friends.
Notwithstanding that the ruler of Persia and the Sultan of
Turkey opposed the Cause so violently exercising tyranny and oppression
thinking to extinguish the Lamp of God yet this Lamp day by day grew in
radiance, its power increased and its illumination became greater, until it
reached such a degree that now its lights are spread throughout the world even
as far as San Francisco, which is very far from Persia. See what this will mean
in the future!
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, San Francisco, October 5, 1912; Star
of the West, vol. 10, no. 13, November 4, 1919)
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