Self-Interest
As for those who are engaged in government service, they should perform their duties with the utmost fidelity, trustworthiness, rectitude, uprightness, integrity and high-mindedness. Let them not tarnish their good repute by pursuing personal interests, nor, for the sake of transient worldly benefits, make themselves objects of public odium and outcasts of the Threshold of Grandeur.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 342
If they accept office, their motive is to render service to the whole of humanity, not to seek their own self-interest; and their object is to vindicate the cause of truth, not to give themselves over to self-indulgence and base ingratitude.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 342
Consider how much solidarity makes for life as compared to the fighting for self interest which destroys it.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 187
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Kamal 7 Sharaf 182 B.E.
This aspect of the Bahá’í law of divorce, however, will need elucidation and supplementary legislation by the House of Justice. Therefore, at the present time, the year of waiting must be observed when adultery on the part of either party is proven.
Universal House of Justice to an individual believer – 28 April 1974