Study

Essential to be quite familiar with the writings or may otherwise be wrongly attributing our own views

"Shoghi Effendi was very glad to learn that you devote a considerable amount of your time to the study of the teachings. It is absolutely essential for those who desire to spread the movement to be quite familiar with the writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the Master. Without that knowledge we may be spreading our own views and wrongly attributing to them things that are the result of our imaginings."

(On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Light of Divine Guidance, vol. 2, pp. 20-21)

See also

• Deepening
• Books to study
• Prophets#Some ideas are just cults and philosophies which the Prophets cannot waste time elucidating but scholars may respond to
• New believers#Attachment to cults from which believers have come is a problem but Assembly to be patient in weaning away from old ideas

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