(from notes of Miss Alma Robertson and other pilgrims, November and December 1900).
Deliverance from Calamities According to the teaching of the Prophets, disease and all other forms of calamity are due to disobedience to the Divine Commands.

Even disasters due to floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes are attributed by 'Abdu'l-Baha indirectly to this cause.
The suffering that follows error is not vindictive, however, but educative and remedial.

It is God's Voice proclaiming to man that he has strayed from the right path.

If the suffering is terrible, it is only because the danger of wrongdoing is more terrible, for "the wages of sin is death." Just as calamity is due to disobedience, so deliverance from calamity can be obtained only be obedience.

There is no chance or uncertainty about the matter.