Contagious
If you are sad, and pass a child who is laughing, the child, seeing your sad face, will cease to laugh, not knowing why.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 124
One must protect and safeguard the blessed souls from the breaths and fatal spiritual diseases; otherwise violation, like the plague, will become a contagion and all will perish.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 437
If you put a leper in a room with healthy people, he cannot catch their health; on the contrary they are very likely to catch his horrible ailment.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 188
Quote of the Day
Kamal 18 Mashiyyat 182 B.E.
Be sensitive for the possibility of prior exposure to severe violence, such as a personal or family history of trauma from torture, mutilation, war atrocities, gang rape, arson, bombings, lynchings, or other extreme forms of violence. Prior exposure to other forms of violence may exacerbate the effects of domestic violence.
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States – Guidelines for Spiritual Assemblies on Domestic Violence, p. 94