CHAPTER 11: VARIOUS ORDINANCES AND TEACHINGS.
Know thou that in every age and dispensation all divine ordinances are changed and transformed according to the requirement of the time, except the law of love, which, like a fountain, always flows and is never overtaken by change .-- BAHA'U'LLAH.
Monastic Life Baha'u'llah, like Muhammad, forbids His followers to lead lives of monastic seclusion.
In the Tablet to Napoleon III we read:-- O concourse of monks! Seclude not yourselves in churches and cloisters.

Come forth by My leave, and occupy yourselves with that which will profit your souls and the souls of men....

Enter ye into wedlock, that after you someone may fill your place.

We have forbidden you perfidious acts, and not that which will demonstrate fidelity.

Have ye clung to the standards fixed by your own selves, and cast the standards of God behind your backs?
Fear God, and be not of the foolish.