Bahá’í Quotes

Assemblies - Loving Parents

He indicated that a National Assembly should be like a loving parent, watching over and helping its children, and not like a stern judge, waiting for an opportunity to display his judicial powers.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 34

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Istiqlal 1 Mulk 182 B.E.

With regard to your first question on alcohol and drinking, Bahá’u’lláh, fully aware of the great misery that it bring about, prohibits it as He expressly states that everything that takes away the mind, or in other words makes one drunk, is forbidden.

Shoghi Effendi – Lights of Guidance, p. 349