What It Means to Be a Bahá'í
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Once when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was asked, ‘What is a Bahá’í?’, He replied, ‘To be a Bahá’í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.’
Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 95; also J. E. Esslemont, Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, chapter 5 ("Living the Life").
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