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Archival Collection of Talks on Various Bahá'í Subjects

Keynote Address on Marriage to the Sixth Annual Conference

1981

Dr. Hossain Danesh introduces 'Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum who was the keynote speaker for the 6th Annual ABS Conference. Rúhíyyih Khánum addresses the problem of divorce in the Bahá'í Community. She stated that marriage is not a Bahá'í law, and gives the examples of the Greatest Holy Leaf, Martha Root and Agnes Alexander as Bahá'ís who never married. Marriage is the proper place to express the sex impulse. In marriage we should teach our children to pray and restrict the number of activities children participate in outside the home. We need to guard against materialsm and avoid arguing with each other in marriage.