Expectations of the future
From Bahai9
Expectations in different areas[edit]
- Maturity of believers to increase over generations
- Physics#Allusions in the Bahá'í Writings to the Potential for Specific Future Discoveries (and potentially encouragement for us to work towards them)
- World government
Men of ill-will have been and will always continue to be in this world[edit]
"...men of ill-will have been and will always continue to be in this world, unless mankind reaches a state of complete and absolute perfection--a condition which is not only improbable but actually impossible to attain. The fundamental difference, however, between this Dispensation and all previous ones is this, that in this Revelation the possibility of permanent schism between the followers of the Prophet has been prevented through the direct and explicit instructions providing for the necessary instruments designed to maintain the organic unity of the body of the faithful."
- (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada, December 1, 1934, Bahá'í News, No. 89, p. 1, January 1935, in Directives from the Guardian, p. 42 and Lights of Guidance, no. 1562)
