aths, there is nothing in the Teachings on this subject.
As a Baha'i is enjoined by Baha'u'llah to be truthful, he would express
his truthfulness, no matter what the formality of the law in any local
place required of him. There can be no objection to Baha'is conforming to
the requirements of the law court whatever they may be in such matters, as
in no case would they constitute in any way a denial of their own beliefs
as Baha'is.

Concerning the short obligatory Prayer: the Guardian does not wish to
define these things at present; the time will come for it in future. The
friends need not be too strict about it at present. The Greatest Name is
Allah-u-Abha.

He remembers you and all the N.S.A. members in his prayers most lovingly,
and supplicates for your success and that strength may be given you to
discharge your many important duties.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-workers,

The emergence of the Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central
and East Africa, under such auspicious circumstances, and after the lapse
of such a short period of time since the inception of the Ten Year Plan,
marks a milestone of far-reaching significance in the unfoldment of the
great historic Mission entrusted to the British Baha'i community in the
vast and far-flung territories beyond the confines of its motherland. It
is, moreover, a striking evidence of the exemplary and whole-hearted
devotion of its members to that Mission, and of the vigour, the vigilance,
the resourcefulness, the tenacity and the courage with which they have
conducted this vast and magnificent enterprise launched in the heart of
that continent, in the face of various obstacles and with such limited
resources at their disposal. The entire community, now standing on the
threshold of still greater and nobler enterprises in other parts of the
world, and particularly its national elected representatives, who have so
splendidly discharged their responsibilities overseas, and assumed with
characteristic resolution, fearlessness and consecration the direction of
the manifold activities of so dynamic an enterprise, must be heartily
congratulated on so conspicuous a victory, won in such a distant field,
within so brief an interval, at the cost of so much sacrifice, by so
limited a number of pioneers, labouring amidst a people so divergent in
language, customs and manners.

Its sister communities in both the East and the West, and particularly its
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