Disability
Regarding disability and Obligatory Prayer (long)[edit]
When becoming feeble or helpless, workmen should have sufficient benefits from the industry income or have high enough wages to save for such days[edit]
"...laws and regulations should be established which would permit the workmen to receive from the factory owner their wages and a share in the fourth or the fifth part of the profits, according to the capacity of the factory; or in some other way the body of workmen and the manufacturers should share equitably the profits and advantages. Indeed, the capital and management come from the owner of the factory, and the work and labor, from the body of the workmen. Either the workmen should receive wages which assure them an adequate support and, when they cease work, becoming feeble or helpless, they should have sufficient benefits from the income of the industry; or the wages should be high enough to satisfy the workmen with the amount they receive so that they may themselves be able to put a little aside for days of want and helplessness."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, pp. 274-275)
Act of kindness to explain disease of patient; can never say invalid is robust and healthy as He wishes his recovery; this is kindness not enmity[edit]
"Should be (Abdul-Baha) not overlook them and explain all the events then there would remain no doubt as to Abdul-Baha's extreme kindness. How patient and long suffering he (Abdul-Baha) is! If he ever utters a word or dictates something concerning a soul, it is a matter of warning which arises from kindness.
"It is an act of kindness on the part of a physician when he explains the disease of his patient, for his explanation secures the recovery.
"I swear by the God beside Whom there is no other God, were any one to amputate any of my limbs, I would pardon him before he had committed the crime; but I can never say that an invalid is robust and healthy, for I wish his recovery, and this is extreme kindness not enmity."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 11, p. 8)
Those radiant souls who are deprived of advantages due to handicaps and trials and leave the world without having lived life to the full is a cause for grieving and Manifestations lay down Their lives to bestow life on these people[edit]
"As to those souls who are born into this life as ethereal and radiant entities and yet, on account of their handicaps and trials, are deprived of great and real advantages, and leave the world without having lived to the full--certainly this is a cause for grieving. This is the reason why the universal Manifestations of God unveil Their countenances to man, and endure every calamity and sore affliction, and lay down Their lives as a ransom; it is to make these very people, the ready ones, the ones who have capacity, to become dawning points of light, and to bestow upon them the life that fadeth never. This is the true sacrifice: the offering of oneself, even as did Christ, as a ransom for the life of the world."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, sec. 31, pp. 64-65)
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To-dos for this page[edit]
- Re: any others on performance of obligatory prayers?
