tag name: Independent investigation of truth type: Miscellaneous; Principles, teachings; Science: natural, social, and applied web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Independent_investigation_of_truth related tags: – Concepts, Philosophical; – Concepts, Religious; – Concepts, Science; Independence; Truth referring tags: Assumptions; Context, Taking verses out of; Critical thinking; Imitation; Misinformation and disinformation; Prejudice, Elimination of; Search after truth; Social media Inventory subject: Independent investigation of truth; reality notes: "The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes.
– Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Arabic, no. 2
"... in order to make any progress in the search after truth we must relinquish superstition. If all seekers would follow this principle they would obtain a clear vision of the truth.
If five people meet together to seek for truth, they must begin by cutting themselves free from all their own special conditions and renouncing all preconceived ideas. In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of life. The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity, and unity is necessary if we would reach truth, for truth is one...
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Paris Talks, talk 41: The First Principle – Search after Truth
"The investigation of truth will assuredly remove all imitations. When blind imitations are eliminated, the oneness of humankind will be revealed, and it will become evident that true religion is the cause of fellowship and unity amongst the people, not the cause of estrangement and rapacity. Through the power of true religion, ignorant prejudices—such as blind religious prejudice, national prejudice, territorial prejudice, and political prejudice—will be dispelled. These idle fancies will disappear and the light of truth will be revealed. Science and religion will hold each other in close embrace."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 12, 15.1; from a Tablet or talk, translated from the original language
"... difficulties often arise when phrases and sentences are taken out of context and viewed as isolated fragments... Society speaks more and more in slogans. We hope that the habits the friends are forming in study circles to work with full and complex thoughts and to achieve understanding will be extended to various spheres of activity.
Closely related to the habit of reducing an entire theme into one or two appealing phrases is the tendency to perceive dichotomies, where, in fact, there are none. It is essential that ideas forming part of a cohesive whole not be held in opposition to one another. In a letter written on his behalf, Shoghi Effendi warned: “We must take the teachings as a great, balanced whole, not seek out and oppose to each other two strong statements that have different meanings; somewhere in between, there are links uniting the two.” ..."
– Universal House of Justice, letter dated 28 December 2010, to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors
See also:
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í Sacred Writings, chapter 12, section "The Independent Investigation of Truth"
bahaidata.org: Q3785 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baháʼí_teachings#Independent_investigation_of_truth; bahaiquotes.com/subject/independent-investigation-of-truth; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Independent investigation of truth
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