Dawn of a New Day

LETTERS ADDRESSED TO INDIVIDUAL BAHA'IS IN INDIA


With regard to your...

With regard to your question relative to the advisability of having Baha'is join film companies. Although on principle there is no objection if any believer wishes to become a cinema actor, yet in view of the excessive corruption that now prevails along such a line of occupation, the Guardian would not advise any believer to choose this kind of profession, unless he finds this to be the only means of earning his livelihood.

Concerning the passage in the Old Testament in which Abraham is reported to have addressed his wife as his sister, the interpretation given it by some Christians cannot hold, as it implies that the Messengers of God are all sinners. A much more plausible explanation would be, that in doing so Abraham wished to emphasize the superiority of the spiritual relationship binding him with his wife to the purely physical and material one.

September 4, 1935


Dawn of a New Day
LETTERS ADDRESSED TO INDIVIDUAL BAHA'IS IN INDIA
pages 197-198

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