Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
Preface
free themselves from “malice, passion, and prejudice, to be just and fair-minded, to be painstaking in their inquiries and ascertain all the facts in every situation.”
Bahá’u’lláh further reemphasizes the ban on the waging of holy war and the destruction of books; requires of His followers that they obey the Government of the country in which they live; and singles out for special praise individuals of learning and wisdom whom He describes as “
eyes” to the body of mankind.
1What the world does not yet guess at is the capacity of Bahá’u’lláh’s projected
world order, functioning in the universal recognition of one God, to “re-create society.” The world community is His primary concern. Religion has often, in the past, produced the good individual. The primary object of Bahá’u’lláh’s religion is to produce the good society. His
administrative system offers, Bahá'ís believe, the only satisfactory arrangement between individual and community, between free will and authority, equilibrating the prerogatives of each.
This balance will have to be created if humanity is to develop an age of peace. We have seen the dictator state crushing out the individual, and we have seen lynch law flouting the group. The point has been debated down the ages. Rúmí the mystic begs God to deliver him from his free will, a burden which he says even heaven and the angels refused, and only man accepted; he compares himself to a camel with pack
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