Profession

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Topics

• Service to one's profession
• Balancing a profession-education with pioneering

See also

• Professions
• Work

Profession of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

"In connection with your dear husband, Shoghi Effendi would consider it in full and happy accord with the expressed desire of the Master that every man should have some permanent work. Much as he desires to see you both devote your entire energies to a well-thought out, progressive and attractive presentation of the Cause—a thing he feels we lack lamentably—he would be very pleased to see your husband follow what the Master often repeated even to His own immediate family, namely the necessity of a profession. Of course you know that He always said His had been mat-making."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, September 20, 1929, in Lights of Guidance, no. 2107)

See also

• Investments#Business investment of 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Give children a technical art or profession by which they may support themselves and others

To a Bahai with two sons in a French school, Abdul-Baha said:

"Give your children a manual profession, something by which they may be able to support themselves and others. Let polite literature take care of itself; teach them a technical art or profession."

(Diary of Mírzá Ahmad Sohrab, Nov. 12, 1913.)This content belongs to Pilgrim's notes, notes known not to have an original language text or transcript and which "may be interesting but not authoritative" to Bahá'ís

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