Literacy
It is a great mistake to believe that because people are illiterate or live primitive lives, they are lacking in either intelligence or sensibility. On the contrary, they may well look on us with the evils of our civilization, with its moral corruption, its ruinous wars, its hypocrisy and conceit, as people who merit watching with both suspicion and contempt. We should meet them as equals, well-wishers, people who admire and respect their ancient decent, and who feel that they will be interested as we are in a living religion and not in the dead forms of present-day churches.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 523
Quote of the Day
Kamal 7 Izzat 183 B.E.
Once it is in the hands of the Assembly the believer's obligation is discharged and he should do no more than pray . . . unless, of course, the Spiritual Assembly asks him to take specific action.
Universal House of Justice – Removal of Administrative Rights, 1993