“Peter,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has testified, “according to the
history of the Church, was also incapable of keeping count of the days of the
week. Whenever he decided to go fishing, he would tie up his weekly food into
seven parcels, and every day he would eat one of them, and when he had reached
the seventh, he would know that the Sabbath had arrived, and thereupon would
observe it.” If the Son of Man was capable of infusing into apparently so crude
and helpless an instrument such potency as to cause, in the words of
Bahá’u’lláh, “the mysteries of wisdom and of utterance to flow out of his
mouth,” and to exalt him above the rest of His disciples, and render him fit to
become His successor and the founder of His Church, how much more can the
Father, Who is Bahá’u’lláh, empower the most puny and insignificant among His
followers to achieve, for the execution of His purpose, such wonders as would
dwarf the mightiest achievements of even the first apostle of Jesus Christ!
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)
