Bahá’í Quotes

Drugs - prescribed

Treat disease through diet, by preference, refrain from the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do not resort to a compounded medicament...Abstain from drugs when health is good, but administer them when necessary.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, p. 106

The purpose of a remedy is to heal and cure. If it be productive of worse symptoms, its absence or discontinuance is preferable.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 117

Quote of the Day

Istijlal 16 Rahmat 183 B.E.

The apathy and lethargy that paralyze their spiritual faculties -- these are among the formidable obstacles that stand in the path of every world-be warrior in the service of Bahá’u’lláh, obstacles which he must battle against the surmount in his crusade for the redemption of his own countrymen.

Shoghi Effendi: Citadel of Faith – p. 149