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Social and Ethical Teachings
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Pages 21-22
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Social and Ethical Teachings
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In His Writings the Báb tells His followers that they must
be distinguished by brotherly loved and courtesy. Useful arts
and crafts must be cultivated. Elementary education should be
general. In the new and wondrous Dispensation now commencing,
women are to have fuller freedom. The poor are to be provided
for out of the common treasury, but begging is strictly
forbidden, as is the use of intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes.
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The guiding motive of the true Bábí must be pure love,
without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus says
in the Bayán: --
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So worship God that if the recompense of thy worship of
Him were to be the Fire, no alteration in thy worship of
Him would be produced. If you worship from fear, that is
unworthy of the threshold of the holiness of God. ...
So also, if your gaze is on Paradise, and if you worship
in hope of that; for then you have made God's creation a
Partner with Him. -- Bábís of Persia, II, Prof. E. G.
Browne, J.R.A.S., vol. xxi, p. 931.
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