Stress
It is interesting to note as well that Shoghi Effendi encouraged the believers to study the Dawn-Breakers, which he described as an “unfailing instrument to allay distress.”
- Universal House of Justice to an individual believer, 23 October 1994
Cannot modern men and women be cured of hypertension and begin through the Word once again to find the lost certainty? Through faith will come serenity and maturity.
- Helen Reed Bishop’s Introduction to the 1950 Edition of the Kitab-i-Iqan, p. ix
Were they not -- our ancestors -- the same breed of men? Cannot modern men and women be cured of hypertension and begin through the Word once again to find the lost certainty? Through faith will come serenity and maturity.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Kitab-i-Iqan, p. ix
Tension derives from the fact that "In man there are two natures; his spiritual or higher nature and his material or lower nature."
- The Universal House of Justice, Messages 1963 to 1986, p. 662
Quote of the Day
Idal 13 Mulk 182 B.E.
The Research Department has not been able to locate any Bahá’í texts which relate to whether or not a believer is relieved of the duty of reciting the Greatest Name or of reading the Writings in the morning and evening on account of ill health. In the absence of such guidance, Mr. ___ is free to make his own decisions in these matters.
Universal House of Justice – at http://www.bahai-library.com/zamir/oblig.html