“Thy letter was received and the contents became known. Thou hast asked some questions; that why the blessed and spiritual souls who are firm and steadfast, shun the company of degenerate persons. This is because that just as the bodily diseases, like consumption and cancer, are contagious, likewise, the spiritual diseases are also infectious. If a consumptive should associate with a thousand safe and healthy persons, the safety and health of these thousand persons would not affect the consumptive and would not cure him of his consumption. But when the consumptive associates with those thousand souls, in a short time the disease of consumption will infect a number of those healthy persons. This is a clear and self—evident question.
“Likewise, if a thousand magnanimous persons associate with a degraded one, the perfection of those souls will not affect this debased person. On the contrary, this mean person will be the cause of their going astray. Therefore, His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh says in the Tablets: ‘Soon will a foul odor be spread; shun it, so commandeth the Omniscient and the Wise. That is, in that city a stinking odor will soon be spread. You should avoid it. So are ye commanded by His Holiness, the Knower and the Wise.’ That foul odor is that of violation. Also in the Tablet of Advice He says: ‘Now, do not neglect your Sower, Protector and Educator; and do not choose and prefer others to Him, lest foul and poisonous Winds should pass over you.’
“His Holiness Christ says that the owner of the garden does not leave the dried tree, but certainly cuts it and throws it into the fire, because the dried Wood is Worthy and deserving of fire. Again, His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh says: ‘Then, O ye trees of the blessed garden of My bestowal, protect ye yourselves from the poison of the treacherous souls and stinking Winds, which are the association of the polytheist and the negligent ones, so that the trees of existence, through the bounty of the Worshipped [One] be not deprived of the blessed breaths and breezes of love.’ ”
- Star of the West, Vol. XII, pp. 233, 234..
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