Bahá’í Quotes

Healing - Operations

Observe the human body, its limbs, its members, the eye, the ear, the organs of smell, of taste, the hands, the fingernails. Notwithstanding the differences among all these parts, each one within the limitations of its own being participateth in a coherent whole. If one of them faileth it must be healed, and should no remedy avail, that part must be removed.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 190

As in this Dispensation consultation with expert doctors is highly advisable and acting in accordance with their prescriptions obligatory, it is well for her to undergo an operation if deemed necessary by such doctors.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, p. 470

Quote of the Day

Kamal 1 Qudrat 182 B.E.

A chaste and holy life must be made the controlling principle in the behavior and conduct of all Bahá’ís.

Shoghi Effendi – The Advent of the Divine Justice, p. 29.