BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

Social Troubles After the WarBoth Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá also foretold a period ofgreat social upheaval, conflict and calamity as an inevitableresult of the irreligion and prejudices, the ignorance and superstition,prevalent throughout the world. The great internationalmilitary conflict was but one phase of this upheaval. In a Tabletdated January, 1920, He wrote:—O ye lovers of truth! O ye servants of mankind! Asthe sweet fragrance of your thoughts and high intentions hasbreathed upon me, I feel that my soul is irresistibly promptedto communicate with you.Ponder in your hearts how grievous is the turmoil in whichthe world is plunged; how the nations of the earth are besmearedwith human blood, nay their very soil is turned intoclotted gore. The flame of war has caused so wild a conflagrationthat the world in its early days, in its middle ages, orin modern times has never witnessed its like. The millstonesof war have ground and crushed many a human head, nay,even more severe has been the lot of these victims. Flourishingcountries have been made desolate, cities have beenlaid level with the ground, and smiling villages have beenturned into ruin. Fathers have lost their sons, and sons turnedfatherless. Mothers have shed tears of blood in mourningfor their youths, little children have been made orphans, andwomen left wanderers and homeless. In a word, humanity, inall its phases, has been debased. Loud is the cry and wailingof orphans, and bitter the lamentations of mothers which areechoed by the skies.The prime cause for all these happenings is racial, national,religious, and political prejudice, and the root of allthis prejudice lies in outworn and deepseated traditions, bethey religious, racial, national, or political. So long as these