“The onrushing winds of the grace of God,” He, in the
Súratu’l-Haykal, proclaims, “have passed over all things. Every creature hath
been endowed with all the potentialities it can carry. And yet the peoples of
the world have denied this grace! Every tree hath been endowed with the
choicest fruits, every ocean enriched with the most luminous gems. Man,
himself, hath been invested with the gifts of understanding and knowledge. The
whole creation hath been made the recipient of the revelation of the All-Merciful,
and the earth the repository of things inscrutable to all except God, the
Truth, the Knower of things unseen. The time is approaching when every created
thing will have cast its burden. Glorified be God Who hath vouchsafed this
grace that encompasseth all things, whether seen or unseen!” - Shoghi Effendi (Quoting Bahá’u’lláh in ‘The Unfoldment of World Civilization’)
