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Notes: Submitted by David Bowie |
19 August 2003
Dear Bahá’í Friend,
Your email letter of 17 August 2003 regarding tattoos has been received at the Bahá’í World Centre and referred to our Department for response.
In reply to your enquiry, nothing at all has been found in the Holy Texts on the matter of tattooing. There is, of course, the following general counsel given by Bahá’u’lláh:
Let there be naught in your demeanour of which sound and upright minds would disapprove, and make not yourselves the playthings of the ignorant. Well is it with him who hath adorned himself with the vesture of seemly conduct and a praiseworthy character. (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 159)
Generally, what is appropriate in such matters will clearly vary from culture to culture.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Department of the Secretariat
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