As a devoted believer you are urged to strive to develop
forgiveness in your heart toward your parents who have abused you in so
disgraceful a manner, and to attain a level of insight which sees them as
captives of their lower nature, whose actions can only lead them deeper into
unhappiness and separation from God. By this means, you can liberate yourself
from the anger to which you refer in your letter, and foster your own spiritual
development. The peerless example of 'Abdu'l-Baha merits close scrutiny in your
quest for a sense of forgiveness; His abiding love for humanity, despite its
waywardness and perversity enabled Him to manifest sincere compassion and
magnanimity to those who had brought Him distress and hardship.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter
dated 9 September 1992 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to
an individual believer)
