Sexual Abuse
We shrink, for very shame, from treating of the subject of boys. Fear ye the Merciful, O peoples of the world! Commit not that which is forbidden you in Our Holy Tablet, and be not of those who rove distractedly in the wilderness of their desires. (Aqdas, paragraph 107)The word translated here as "boys" has, in this context, in the Arabic original, the implication of paederasty [anal intercourse between a man and a boy]. Shoghi Effendi has interpreted this reference as a prohibition on all homosexual relations.
- Universal House of Justice, NSA USA - The Bahá’í Faith and Homosexuality
Quote of the Day
Jamal 9 Kamal 183 B.E.
ARMY OF LIGHT -- Generally, the Bahá’í community, but more particularly the "heavenly armies" -- "those souls", according to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, "who are entirely freed from the human world, transformed into celestial spirits and have become divine angels. Such souls are the rays of the Sun of Reality who will illumine all the continents" (TDP 8.2).
The Universal House of Justice – Messages 1963 to 1986, p. 731