Assemblies - Consultation Principles
Patience and restraint, however, should at all times characterize the discussions and deliberations of the elected representatives of the local community, and no fruitless and hair-splitting discussions indulged in, under any circumstances.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 81
The friends should therefore not feel discouraged at the differences of opinion that may prevail among the members of an Assembly for these, as experiences has shown, and as the Master's words attest, fulfil a valuable function in all Assembly deliberations. But once the opinion the majority has been ascertained, all the members should automatically and unreservedly obey it, and faithfully carry it out.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 80
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Kamal 7 Sharaf 182 B.E.
This aspect of the Bahá’í law of divorce, however, will need elucidation and supplementary legislation by the House of Justice. Therefore, at the present time, the year of waiting must be observed when adultery on the part of either party is proven.
Universal House of Justice to an individual believer – 28 April 1974