You have asked regarding the heavenly Books: The pulse of
the universe is in the hand of the skillful Physician. He diagnoses the illness
and wisely prescribes the remedy. Every day has its own secret and every tongue
a melody. The illness of today has one cure and that of tomorrow another. Look
ye upon this day; consider and discuss its needs. One sees that existence is
afflicted with innumerable diseases compelling it to lie upon the bed of
suffering. Men who are intoxicated with the wine of self-contemplation prevent
the wise Physician from reaching it. Thus have they made themselves and the world
to suffer. They know not the ailment nor recognize the cure. They take the
wrong for the right, the crooked for the straight, the enemy for the friend.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 1, March 21, 1910)
