I love this quote. Often times people equate being a Baha’i to an adherence to a static set of rules and laws. It is far more than that. Even worse, many Baha’is themselves think they are such when they simply declare it by name and not in action. Of course Abdu’l-Baha sets the record straight for everyone as to what really counts. I judge myself by this standard, and thus I will judge others as well. ;)
“He is a true Bahá’í who strives by day and by night to progress along the path of human endeavor, whose cherished desire is so to live and act as to enrich and illumine the world; whose source of inspiration is the essence of Divine Perfection, whose aim in life is to conduct himself so as to be the cause of infinite progress. Only when he attains unto such perfect gifts can it be said of him that he is a Bahá’í.”
(’Abdu’l-Bahá: Bahá’í Revelation, p. 285)
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