Payment to teachers
Dear friends-
Here is a good question coming from an associate of mine.
So should teachers be paid?
"This matter of teachers requires the greatest
condition; that is, they should never stain themselves
with the world, THEY SHOULD NOT LOOK FOR THE LEAST
PECUNIARY REWARD FROM ANY SOUL; nay, rather they
should bear the utmost poverty and with the perfect
wealth of nature, through the bounty of God, may they
associate with the people. THEY SHOULD SEEK NO REWARD
NOR RECOMPENSE. Freely have they received, freely
should they give. His Holiness Christ sayeth: 'When
ye leave the city, clean off from your shoes the dust
thereof.' The holiness of the teachers must reach
this degree. Thus may they utter with eloquence,
while in ecstasy and great joy, and guide the people
to the manifest light." Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha, Vol.
II, p. 360 (emphasis added)
regards,
doug
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