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A Prayer from the Baha'i Writings A Prayer from the Baha'i Writings
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That Religion should not concern itself
with Political Questions

Religion is concerned with things of the spirit, politics with things of the world. Religion has to work with the world of thought, whilst the field of politics lies with the world of external conditions.

It is the work of the clergy to educate the people, to instruct them, to give them good advice and teaching so that they may progress spiritually. With political questions they have nothing to do.

('Abdu'l-Bahá: Paris Talks, Pages: 132-133)

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View a larger picture. Residents here flung open their windows to listen to gospel-style music being sung on the streets below by an international Bahá'í choir.

The choir had completed a concert in an historic church and continued outside, as its director Van Gilmer later explained.

"The audience followed the choir out of the church to the sidewalks as it continued to sing -- people opened their windows to enjoy the impromptu concert we gave," he said.

That enthusiastic response by the citizens of this southern German city was replicated in different ways across Europe this northern summer.

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