As the Bahá'í community grows it will acquire experts in
numerous fields – both by Bahá'ís becoming experts and by experts becoming
Bahá'ís. As these experts bring their knowledge and skill to the service of the
community and, even more, as they transform their various disciplines by
bringing to bear upon them the light of the Divine Teachings, problem after
problem now disrupting society will be answered....
Paralleling this process, Bahá'í institutional life will
also be developing, and as it does so the Assemblies will draw increasingly
upon scientific and expert knowledge – whether of Bahá'ís or of non-Bahá'ís –
to assist in solving the problems of their communities.
In time great Bahá'í institutions of learning, great
international and national projects for the betterment of human life will be
inaugurated and flourish.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 21 August 1977 written on behalf
of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; the Compilation of
Compilations, vol. III, Scholarship)
