Ishráqát (Splendours)

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The need to read

• https://bahai-library.com/zamir/sm/?21 (section IV.2.D)

By verse

127-128 "Let not man glory in this that he loveth his country, let him rather glory in this that he loveth his kind."

"With reference to your question as to the meaning of the passage 'he who loves his kind', the statement of Bahá’u’lláh does not refer to any special race or class of people. Rather it includes the entire human race, irrespective of any class, creed or colour. The Message of Bahá’u’lláh is not a particularistic appeal to a group of people. It is a Universal Message, an all-inclusive appeal. His principle of the Oneness of Mankind is worldwide in its spirit, in its application, and covers the entire field of human relationships.

"It is most essential that the believers should be quite clear on this point as the principle of the oneness of humanity is the corner-stone of all the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, and should be presented as such, without the least hesitation, by the friends."

(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, March 11, 1937, cited in a letter by the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, August 8, 1968, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1705; second paragraph also in Lights of Guidance, no. 1589; first paragraph cited as being a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, November 25, 1947, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1590)

See also

• Non-obligatory prayers mentioned for daily recitation (on non-requirement of daily recitation)