Such a chaste and holy life, with its implications of
modesty, purity, temperance, decency, and clean-mindedness, involves- no less than the exercise of moderation in all that pertains to dress, language, amusements, and all artistic and literary avocations.
- It demands daily vigilance in the control of one's carnal desires and corrupt inclinations·
- It calls for the abandonment of a frivolous conduct, with its excessive attachment to
- trivial and often
- misdirected pleasures.
- It requires total abstinence from all alcoholic drinks, from opium, and from similar habit-forming drugs.
- It condemns
- the prostitution of art and of literature,
- the practices of nudism and of
- companionate marriage,
- infidelity in marital relationships, and
- all manner of promiscuity,
- of easy familiarity, and
- of sexual vices.
- It can tolerate no compromise with
- the theories,
- the standards,
- the habits, and
- the excesses of a decadent age.
- Nay rather it seeks to demonstrate, through the dynamic force of its example,
- the pernicious character of such theories,
- the falsity of such standards,
- the hollowness of such claims,
- the perversity of such habits, and
- the sacrilegious character of such excesses.
-Shoghi Effendi (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’; The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, A Chase and Holy Life)
