We must turn aside from these vain imaginings and
suppositions and philosophizings of the world, and fix our eyes upon the clear
stream of the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh. Out of these Teachings, and the society
which they will create on this planet, will come a solution to all of the
problems of men. Gradually, greater scholars, more deeply spiritual thinkers,
will be able to answer from a Bahá'í standpoint many of these questions. It is
not necessary that they should be in the divine text; they can be studied and
learned in the future; but at present we have not had time to evolve the Bahá'í
scholars who can deal with these subjects in detail, and take upon themselves
to answer the abstruse points and the many unfounded doctrines which are
advanced by modern philosophers.
- Shoghi Effendi
(From a message dated 22 April 1954 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi
to an individual believer; included in a compilation on ‘Baha’i Scholarship’,
prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, and sent
by the Department of the Secretariat to an individual believer on 13 December
1999; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)
