Bahá’í Quotes

Drugs - prescribed

Treat disease through diet, by preference, refrain from the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do not resort to a compounded medicament...Abstain from drugs when health is good, but administer them when necessary.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, p. 106

The purpose of a remedy is to heal and cure. If it be productive of worse symptoms, its absence or discontinuance is preferable.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 117

Quote of the Day

Idal 4 Sultan 182 B.E.

The question of economics must commence with the farmer and then be extended to the other classes inasmuch as the number of farmers is greater than all other classes, many many times greater. Therefore, it is fitting that the economic problem be first solved with the farmer, for the farmer is the first active agent in the body politic.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Lights of Guidance, p. 547