Beware lest ye contend with any one, nay, strive to make him
aware of the truth with kindly manner and most convincing exhortation. If your
hearer respond, he will have responded to his own behoof, and if not, turn ye
away from him, and set your faces towards God's sacred Court, the seat of
resplendent holiness.
Dispute not with any one concerning the things of this world
and its affairs, for God hath abandoned them to such as have set their
affection upon them.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Bahá'u'lláh’, The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Scholarship)
