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"Baha'u'llah and the Master in many places and very emphatically have told us to shun entirely all Covenant-breakers as they are afflicted with what we might try and define as contagious spiritual disease; they have also told us, however, to pray for them. These souls are not lost forever... God will forgive any soul if he repents... (114:2) ...Also, it has nothing to do with unity in the cause; if a man cuts a cancer out of his body to preserve his health and very life no one would suggest that for the sake of "unity" it should be reintroduced into the otherwise healthy organism! On the contrary, what was once a part of him has so radically changed as to have become a poison." (Shoghi Effendi)
(114:3)
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