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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 20-21

58: “Beware lest ye contend with any one, nay, strive to make him aware of the truth…”
Beware lest ye contend with any one, nay, strive to make him aware of the truth with kindly manner and most convincing exhortation. If your hearer respond, he will have responded to his own behoof, and if not, turn ye away from him, and set your faces towards God’s sacred Court, the seat of resplendent holiness. 21
Dispute not with any one concerning the things of this world and its affairs, for God hath abandoned them to such as have set their affection upon them.
(“Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh”, section CXXVIII) [58]