Note
 REMOVAL OF PREJUDICE 
 

 
Baha'u'llah teaches that all forms of prejudice must be forgotten, whether it is national prejudice or racial prejudice or religious prejudice. As long as people cling to prejudice, we will not have any peace on earth.
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All the wars that we have had in the past, all the murder and bloodshed, have been due to
prejudice of some kind. People have fought over their country or their religion bringing destruction to the world and death to millions of their fellow humans.
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Abdu'l-Baha says:

              "  If this prejudice and enmity are on account of religion ( consider that) religion
                 should  be  the  cause  of  fellowship ,  otherwise  it  is  fruitless .  and  if  this
                 prejudice be the prejudice of  nationality ( consider that ) all  mankind  are  of
                 one nation ; all have sprung  from  the tree of Adam, and  Adam is the root of
                 the tree. That tree is one  and  all these nations  are like branches , while the
                 individuals of humanity are like leaves ,blossoms and fruits thereof. Then the             
                 establishment of various nations and the consequent shedding of blood  and
                 destruction  of  the edifice  of  humanity  result  from  human  ignorance  and
                 selfish motives.
                 As to the patriotic prejudice , this is also  due to  absolute  ignorance, for  the
                 surface of the earth is one native land. Every one can live in any spot on  the
                 terrestrial  globe . Therefore   all   the   world   is   man's   birthplace .  These
                 boundaries and outlets  have  been  devised  by  man. In  the  creation, such
                 boundaries and outlets were not assigned. Europe  is  one  continent, Asia is
                 one continent, Africa is one continent , Australia  is  one  continent, but some
                 of the souls , from personal motives and selfish interests, have  divided each
                 each one of these continents and  considered  a  certain  part  as  their  own
                 country . God has set up no frontier between  France and Germany; they are
                 continuos. Yea, in the first centuries , selfish souls, for  the promotion of their
                 own interests, have assigned boundaries and outlets and  have , day by day,
                 attached   more   importance   to   these ,  until   this  led  to  intense  enmity ,
                 bloodshed and rapacity in  subsequent  centuries . In  the  same way this will
                 continue  indefinitely , and  if  this  conception  of  patriotism  remains  limited
                 within a certain circle, it will be the primary  cause of  the world's destruction.
                 No wise and just person will acknowledge these imaginary distinctions. Every
                 limited area which we call our native country we regard as  our  motherland ,
                 whereas the terrestrial globe is the motherland of all, and  not  any restricted
                 area . In short , for a few days we live on this  earth  and  eventually  we  are
                 buried in it , it is our eternal tomb. Is  it  worth while that we should engage in
                 bloodshed and tear one another  to  pieces  for  this  eternal  tomb? Nay , far
                 from it , neither is God pleased with such  conduct  nor  would any sane man
                 approve of it. "

 
 
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