Pity
I swear by the Greatest Name, it is a pity that in these days anyone should gaze at transient concerns! . . . The heart of the world is enkindled with the divine world. It is a pity for you not to be ignited with this fire.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í Scriptures, p. 134
O Lord! Have pity on my weakness and strengthen me with Thy power! O Lord! Have pity on my impotency and assist me with Thy might and majesty!
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 423
The Pen of Admonition exhorteth the friends and enjoineth on them charity, pity, wisdom, and gentleness.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 45
However much pity and sympathy we may have for humanity, we nevertheless realize that people today are suffering for their own sins of omission and commission. We must help them to see this and to turn their thoughts and acts into the channels Divinely prescribed by Bahá’u’lláh.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 129
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