Bahá’í Quotes

Death - Treatment of Body

Therefore, it hath been ordained that the dead body should be treated with the utmost honour and respect.

- The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, p. 95

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Fidal 3 Azamat 183 B.E.

Burden not an animal with more than it can bear. We, truly, have prohibited such treatment through a most binding interdiction in the Book. Be ye the embodiments of justice and fairness amidst all creation.

Bahá’u’lláh – Kitab-i-Aqdas, #187