Covenant-breaking
From Bahai9
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Topics
- Covenant-breaking - nature
- Covenant-breaking - excommunication
- Covenant-breaking - non-association
- Covenant-breaking - role of institutions
- Covenant-breakers - strategies of
- Covenant-breakers - motives of
- Covenant-breakers - books by
- Covenant-breaking - need for vigilance against
- Covenant-breaking and forgiveness
- Covenant-breakers - respect of rights
- Covenant-breaking - education on
From Lights of Guidance
(Should be further subcategorized or possibly moved to another category)
Covenant-Breakers, Defined
"People who have withdrawn from the Cause because they no longer feel that they can support its Teachings and Institutions sincerely, are not Covenant-breakers--they are non-Bahá'ís and should just be treated as such. Only those who ally themselves actively with known enemies of the Faith who are Covenant-breakers, and who attack the Faith in the same spirit as these people, can be considered, themselves, to be Covenant-breakers. As you know, up to the present time, no one has been permitted to pronounce anybody a Covenant-breaker but the Guardian[(Now the Universal House of Justice)] himself."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada, March 30, 1957, in Lights of Guidance, no. 601)
