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Appointment and Promotion |
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In making appointments, the only criterion must be fitness
for the position. Before this paramount consideration, all
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others, such as seniority, social or financial status, family connection
or personal friendship, must give way. Bahá’u’lláh says
in the Tablet of Ishráqát:—
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The fifth Ishráq (Effulgence) is the knowledge by
governments of the condition of the governed, and the
conferring of ranks according to desert and merit. Regard
to this matter is strictly enjoined upon every chief and
ruler, that haply traitors may not usurp the positions of
trustworthy men nor spoilers occupy the seats of
guardians.
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It needs but little consideration to show that when this
principle becomes generally accepted and acted upon, the
transformation in our social life will be astounding. When each
individual is given the position for which his talents and
capabilities specially fit him he will be able to put his heart into
his work and become an artist in his profession, with incalculable
benefit to himself and the rest of the world.
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