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 5 Nur 183 B.E.

O my God! O my God! Thou seest me drowned in the sea of ordeals, seized upon by the fire of infidelity, with tears flowing in the dark night rolling in the bed of sleeplessness, mine eyes expectant to see the dawn of the lights of Faith. And when I am anxious, as the fish whose bowels are inflamed upon the dust, I anticipate the manifestation of Thy bounties from all sides!

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v2, p. 381