SOCIAL & ETHICAL TEACHING.

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Mansion of Bahji: Holy place near Akka, Israel, where Baha'u'llah resided from 1879 to 1892.




    In His writings the Bab tells His followers that they must be distinguished by brotherly love and courtesy. Useful arts and crafts must be cultivated. Elementary education should be general. In the new and wondrous Dispensation (exemptions) now commencing, women are to have fuller freedom. The poor are to be provided for out of the common treasury, but begging is strictly forbidden, as is the use of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. 

    The guiding motive of the true Babi must be pure love, without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus He says in the Bayan ( the holy book written by Bab) :-

    "So worship God that if the recompense (intensity of spirit we pay back) of your worship were to be the Fire, no alteration of your worship of Him would be produced. If you worship God from fear, that is unworthy of the threshold (the level at which one starts to feel or react to something ) of the holiness of God.... So also, if your gaze is on Paradise, and if you worship in hope of that; for then you have made God's creation a partner with Him."  -  Babis of Persia.  

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