Gleanings — Paragraph 128

Source (Arabic)

جمیع ناس را از شمال بعد و هوی بیمین قرب و لقا رساند لو شآء الله لیکون النّاس أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً ولکن مقصود صعود انفس طیّبه و جواهر مجرّده است که بفطرت اصلیّهٴ خود بشاطی بحر اعظم وارد شوند تا طالبان جمال ذو الجلال از عاکفان امکنهٴ ضلال و اضلال از یکدیگر مفصول و ممتاز شوند کذلک قدّر الأمر

Translation

He Who is the Dayspring of Truth is, no doubt, fully capable of rescuing from such remoteness wayward souls and of causing them to draw nigh unto His court and attain His Presence. “If God had pleased He had surely made all men one people.” His purpose, however, is to enable the pure in spirit and the detached in heart to ascend, by virtue of their own innate powers, unto the shores of the Most Great Ocean, that thereby they who seek the Beauty of the All-Glorious may be distinguished and separated from the wayward and perverse. Thus hath it been ordained by the all-glorious and resplendent Pen.…