A collection of chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

9/07/2017

Obeying Baha’i laws will “strengthen our own characters” and “influence those around us” - 6 February 1973

To give one very obvious example: the Bahá'í law requiring consent of parents to marriage. All too often nowadays such consent is withheld by non-Bahá'í parents for reasons of bigotry or racial prejudice; yet we have seen again and again the profound effect on those very parents of the firmness of the children in the Bahá'í law, to the extent that not only is the consent ultimately given in many cases, but the character of the parents can be affected and their relationship with their child greatly strengthened.

Thus, by upholding Bahá'í law in the face of all difficulties we not only strengthen our own characters but influence those around us. 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter to an individual believer, excerpts from letter to all National Spiritual Assemblies, February 6, 1973; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1968-1973’)