On Guidance in the Form of Opposites: The middle way
May 15th, 2008 by admin
As is so often the case in the guidance one finds in the Baha’i Writings, the place to be is in the middle, between two seeming opposites. This passage from the 2008 Ridvan Message provides guidance to Baha’is in both their teaching and their apologetics. -gw
Remarkable numbers are now shouldering responsibility for the spiritual vitality of their communities; energetically, they are carrying out those acts of service befitting a healthy pattern of growth. As they have persevered in the field of service to the Cause, maintaining a humble posture of learning, their courage and wisdom, zeal and acuity, fervour and circumspection, determination and trust in God have combined all the more to reinforce one another. In their presentation of the message of Baha’u’llah and the exposition of its verities, they have taken to heart the words of Shoghi Effendi that they must neither “hesitate” nor “falter”, neither “overstress” nor “whittle down” the truth which they champion. Neither are they “fanatical” nor “excessively liberal”.
