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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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From Letters Written by or on Behalf of the Universal House of Justice

61: “…the believers must recognize the importance of intellectual honesty and…”
…the believers must recognize the importance of intellectual honesty and humility. In past dispensations many errors arose because the believers in God’s Revelation were over-anxious to encompass the Divine Message within the framework of their limited understanding, to define doctrines where definition was beyond their power, to explain mysteries which only the wisdom and experience of a later age would make comprehensible, to argue that something was true because it appeared desirable and necessary. Such compromises with essential truth, such intellectual pride, we must scrupulously avoid.
(27 May 1966, published in “Wellspring of Guidance: Messages 1963–1968” (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1976), pp. 87–88) [61]