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A Compilation on Women

  • Author:

  • Various

  • Source:
  • Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, January 1986
  • Pages:
  • 45
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Pages 15-16

II. THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN

Extracts From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh:

36: It is the bounden duty of parents to rear their children to be staunch in…
It is the bounden duty of parents to rear their children to be staunch in faith … For every praiseworthy deed is born out of the light of religion, and lacking this supreme bestowal the child will not turn away from any evil, nor will he draw nigh unto any good.
(From a Tablet - translated from Persian, published in “Bahá’í Education, a compilation”, 1976 World Centre edition, p. 6) [36]
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