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

Jamal 11 Masail 182 B.E.

The Administrative Order of the Cause, though first established in America, copied as a model by other national Bahá’í communities, is not an American production, but is a universal system based on the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh. It is not simply by coincidence however that it was first initiated and perfected by the American believers.

Shoghi Effendi – Lights of Guidance, p. 1