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

Fidal 19 Mulk 182 B.E.

You must be very grateful to Columbus who discovered such a great country. It is exceedingly astonishing that though he was the discoverer, yet it became known by the name of America. Indeed this country should be called Columbia, which is true and just.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Star of the West, v4, p. 78