People with disabilities
This page is a discussion of issues of concern in the Bahá'í Faith to people with disabilities.
Reason for disabilities[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."
- (Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, section 31)
Prayer (exemptions) for people with disabilities[edit]
Local Spiritual Assemblies to assist people with disabilities[edit]
- https://bahai-library.com/writings/shoghieffendi/ba/ba-all.html#38
- https://bahai-library.com/books/bw18/lsa.bylaws.html (article IV)
Huqúqu'lláh to be expended for:[edit]
Access on pilgrimages:[edit]
Need for all to perform some work despite any disabilities[edit]
Regarding terminating severely handicapped babies in pregnancy[edit]
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár to provide for:[edit]
- https://bahai-library.com/writings/shoghieffendi/gpb/346-350.html#350
- https://bahai-library.com/compilation_arts_architecture#2
- https://bahai-library.com/compilation_arts_architecture#3
- https://bahai-library.com/writings/abdulbaha/pup/pup.html#71
- https://bahai-library.com/writings/abdulbaha/fwu/fwu.html#40 (paid for in future governments)
For a list of prominent Bahá'ís who had or have disabilities, see Specific people with disabilities/Category:Specific people by associated physical condition or characteristic.
