Contagious
If you are sad, and pass a child who is laughing, the child, seeing your sad face, will cease to laugh, not knowing why.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 124
One must protect and safeguard the blessed souls from the breaths and fatal spiritual diseases; otherwise violation, like the plague, will become a contagion and all will perish.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 437
If you put a leper in a room with healthy people, he cannot catch their health; on the contrary they are very likely to catch his horrible ailment.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 188
Quote of the Day
Istiqlal 1 Ilm 183 B.E.
If thou remainest, at the moment of death, a disbeliever in the signs of thy Lord thou shalt surely enter the gates of hell, and none of the deeds thy hands have wrought will profit thee, nor shalt thou find a patron nor anyone to plead for thee.
The Báb – Selections from the Writings of the Báb, p. 19