A Compilaton on ScholarshipUniversal House of Justice
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A Compilaton on Scholarship
Universal House of Justice
Bahai Faith
When studying at school or university Bahá’í youth will often find
themselves in the unusual and slightly embarrassing position of having a
more profound insight into a subject than their instructors. The Teachings
of Bahá’u’lláh throw light on so many aspects of human life and knowledge
that a Bahá’í must learn, earlier than most, to weigh the information that
is given to him rather than to accept it blindly. A Bahá’í has the
advantage of the divine Revelation for this Age, which shines like a
searchlight on so many problems that baffle modern thinkers; he must
therefore develop the ability to learn everything from those around him,
showing proper humility before his teachers, but always relating what he
hears to the Bahá’í teachings, for they will enable him to sort out the
gold from the dross of human error.
(10 June 1966 to Bahá’í Youth in every Land, published in “Wellspring of
Guidance: Messages 1963–1968”, pp. 95–96) [62]
63: “The House of Justice agrees that it is most important for the
believers,...”
The House of Justice agrees that it is most important for the believers,
and especially those who hold positions of responsibility in the
Administrative Order, to react calmly and with tolerant and enquiring
minds to views which differ from their own, remembering that all Bahá’ís
are but students of the Faith, ever striving to understand the Teachings
more clearly and to apply them more faithfully, and none can claim to have
a perfect understanding of this Revelation. At the same time all
believers, and scholars in particular, should remember the many warnings
in the Writings against the fomenting of discord among the friends. It is
the duty of the institutions of the Faith to guard the community against
such dangers.... [I]t cannot be denied that some of the statements that
have been made recently in the name of Bahá’í scholarship by certain
individuals have betrayed an intemperance, and a lack of appreciation of
many of the fundamental teachings of the Faith, that would understandably
arouse alarm in the breasts of the most tolerant of believers.
(18 July 1979 on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual
believer) [63]
64: “The House of Justice feels that Bahá’í scholars must beware of
the...”
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