teach 1000 people, train 100 youth and 100 children

The first time you visit an area, teach. The second time you visit, teach again. This teaching is, in itself, deepening.

It is good to ask one of the visitors to preside at public meetings.

When youth accept the Faith, it is good if their parents are visited so that the Faith can be explained to them. If they are angry, do not worry. Once they learn about the Faith they will not mind their children being Baha’is.

Everywhere that there are new Baha’is, organize children’s classes, prepare a programme of Baha’i education, help the Baha’is learn how to conduct an Assembly meeting, assist them to build a centre and visit their homes to say prayers.

When you visit the homes of new believers, avoid giving speeches. Talk to them and listen to them.

(Dr. Muhájir, Hand of the Cause of God, Knight of Baha'u'llah, by Írán Furútan Muhájir, BPT London, p. 104)

…concentrate in one area, teach 1000 people, train 100 youth and 100 children and the next year add to the number of pioneers and literature and expand the teaching to 2000 people.

(Dr. Muhájir, Hand of the Cause of God, Knight of Baha'u'llah, by Írán Furútan Muhájir, BPT London, p. 120)

Dr Muhajir loved village Baha’is and they loved him in return. A rapport was always immediately established. He would say: ‘Friends, I was born in a mud hut like you. My grandfather was poor but wanted to give a university education to his children. He wrote to ‘Abdu’l-Baha and asked what to do. ‘Abdu’l-Baha replied, ‘Contribute to the Fund.’ He obeyed and all of us got a university education.’ Of course the friends loved it.

(Dr. Muhájir, Hand of the Cause of God, Knight of Baha'u'llah, by Írán Furútan Muhájir, BPT London, p. 108)

The June issue of Nairobi Baha’i News reports that when he visited the community he ‘shared his ideas of a progressive teaching plan which aims at teaching families, house by house, and thus building a unit of community. This ensures that consolidation and expansion go together.’ He also urged the Baha’is to teach the children, as one way to get their parents interested. He explained that these methods had been tried in West Africa with great success.

He encouraged those friends who had used such methods in other countries to travel and pioneer to Africa. He also encouraged the Iranian Baha’is to pioneer there.

(Dr. Muhájir, Hand of the Cause of God, Knight of Baha'u'llah, by Írán Furútan Muhájir, BPT London, p. 140)

Encourage them to read Nabil’s Narrative and The New Garden. Then encourage them to share what they have learned so as to show their understanding. Children must be taught the Faith the same way that others are taught, and when going out teaching, children should be taken along. This is how they learn to be teachers themselves ... Teach whole villages and families, teach everyone, so that all people are represented within the Baha’i community and we can build a solid foundation for the unity of mankind.

(Dr. Muhájir, Hand of the Cause of God, Knight of Baha'u'llah, by Írán Furútan Muhájir, BPT London, p. 147)