Directives From the Guardian
41 CONTRIBUTIONS (Lifting the Burden of Misery from Mankind)
"...In the first place every believer is free to follow the dictates
of his own conscience as regards the manner in which to
spend his own money. Secondly, we must always bear in mind
that there are so few Bahá'ís in the world, relative to the world's
population, and so many people in need, that even if all of us
gave all we had, it would not alleviate more than an infinitesimal
amount of suffering. This does not mean we must not help
the needy, we should; but our contributions to the Faith are
the surest way of lifting once and for all time the burden of
hunger and misery from mankind, for it is only through the
System of Bahá'u'lláh--Divine in origin--that the world can be
gotten on its feet, and want, fear, hunger, war, etc., be eliminated.
Non-Bahá'ís cannot contribute to our work or do it for
us; so really our first obligation is to support our own teaching
work, as this will lead to the healing of the nations."
Directives From the Guardian
pages 14-15
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