Dear Don, These ongoing guidances from the UHJ have the purpose of giving the believers a wider latitude of thinking about leadership in the society. As Baha'is we should consider ourselves above present politics and aloof of them as far as their leaders get there thinking of their own advantage rather than the Baha'i view of the leadership which is a painful servitude to mankind which is equivalent to servitude to God.
UHJ guidance contains, as always, extreme flexibility for all situations and leaves a wide latitude of action for the believer to enter into serving mankind in an ever-increasing role while the face of the politics is cleared of the well-known corruptions and machinations. The believer, in this way, is kept aloof of the present corrupt methods of nominations for leadership, and enters if non-Baha'is have reached such degree of maturity and majority and despair in their societies that come up to Baha'is for help and see which of the believers has displayed lack of prejudice and other qualities they need for their leaders, and then such non-Baha'is beg this Baha'i individual to come and lead the way, and that Baha'i at this stage seems to be mature enough not to fall in the traps of corrupt leadership of any specific group against all others, and UHJ guidance guarantees that if he is not yet reached that stage of maturity then the Institutions guide him further so that a true Baha'i leadership only be realized by the individual believer. This situation as I stated may not exist yet in North America, but is gradually coming to exist especially, in 3rd world countries where the political systems are totally collapsing and as time passes people more and more come to Baha'is for help. Regards, Max. | | |Max Jasper wrote: |> |> ELECTION TO SCHOOL BOARDS, |> TOWN or MUNICIPAL COUNCILS: |> | |Tnx much for these citations Max. They support my |understanding of the situation. | | |> IF HE IS NOMINATED, ACCEPTS |> NOMINATION, AND OTHERS WISH CAMPAIGN FOR HIM HE MAY ATTEND |> ALL-CANDIDATES MEETINGS, BUT SHOULD NOT CAMPAIGN PROMOTE HIS |ELECTION. |> | |I had wondered about this, as I could not see how we could |prohibit all forms of electioneering by non-Baha'is. Without |this proviso, I could see a situation where anti-Baha'i forces |could force a Baha'i to reject election by openly campaigning |*for* them. | |I suspect several people have 'talked up' my candidacy this |time; but it is really irrelevant to the outcome since there |were only 5 of us 'running' for 5 positions. | |Don C | |-- | - - - - - |He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web - http://list.jccc.net/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
