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A Compilation on Scholarship

  • Author:

  • Various

  • Source:
  • Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, February 1995
  • Pages:
  • 28
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Pages 12-13

39: “As the Bahá’í community grows it will acquire experts in numerous fields…”
As the Bahá’í community grows it will acquire experts in numerous fields—both by Bahá’ís becoming experts and by experts becoming Bahá’ís. As these experts bring their knowledge and skill to the service of the community 13 and, even more, as they transform their various disciplines by bringing to bear upon them the light of the Divine Teachings, problem after problem now disrupting society will be answered….
Paralleling this process, Bahá’í institutional life will also be developing, and as it does so the Assemblies will draw increasingly upon scientific and expert knowledge—whether of Bahá’ís or of non-Bahá’ís—to assist in solving the problems of their communities.
In time great Bahá’í institutions of learning, great international and national projects for the betterment of human life will be inaugurated and flourish.
(21 August 1977 on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer) [39]