Choice
By My Lord, were I given the choice between the glory and opulence, the wealth and dignity, the ease and luxury wherein they are, and the distress and affliction wherein I am, I would certainly choose that wherein I am today, and I would not now exchange one atom of these afflictions for all that hath been created in the kingdom of production!
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 82
Every choice a Bahá’í makesas employee or employer, producer or consumer, borrower or lender, benefactor or beneficiaryleaves a trace, and the moral duty to lead a coherent life demands that one’s economic decisions be in accordance with lofty ideals, that the purity of one’s aims be matched by the purity of one’s actions to fulfil those aims. Naturally, the friends habitually look to the teachings to set the standard to which to aspire.
- Universal House of Justice, to the Bahá’ís of the World, 1 March 2017
Quote of the Day
Jalal 9 Ilm 183 B.E.
As to the question regarding the soul of a murderer, and what his punishment would be, the answer given was that the murderer must expiate his crime: that is, if they put the murderer to death, his death is his atonement for his crime, and following the death, God in His justice will impose no second penalty upon him, for divine justice would not allow this.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 179