Shall Man Fight for the Tomb?
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When in Bahá'í history
At Leland Stanford Junior University, near the end of a long address, the Master asserted: ‘We live upon this earth for a few days and then rest beneath it forever. So it is our graveyard eternally. Shall man fight for the tomb which devours him, for his eternal sepulchre? What ignorance could be greater than this? To fight over his grave; to kill another for his grave! What heedlessness! What a delusion!’
Source: Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 116; the full talk, given on 8 October 1912, is in The Promulgation of Universal Peace.
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