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 4 Ilm 182 B.E.
. . . task of converting satanic strength into heavenly power is one that We have been empowered to accomplish . . . The Word of God, alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required for so great and far-reaching a change.
Bahá’u’lláh – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 200