BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

Social and Ethical TeachingsIn His Writings the Báb tells His followers that they must be distinguishedby brotherly love and courtesy. Useful arts and craftsmust be cultivated. Elementary education should be general. Inthe new and wondrous Dispensation now commencing, womenare to have fuller freedom. The poor are to be provided for outof the common treasury, but begging is strictly forbidden, as isthe use of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.The guiding motive of the true Bábí must be pure love, withouthope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus He says in theBayán:—So worship God that if the recompense of thy worshipof Him were to be the Fire, no alteration in thy worship ofHim would be produced. If you worship from fear, that isunworthy of the threshold of the holiness of God.... So also,if your gaze is on Paradise, and if you worship in hope ofthat; for then you have made God’s creation a Partner withHim.—Bábís of Persia, II, Prof. E. G. Browne, J.R.A.S., vol.xxi, p. 931.