A Compilaton on Scholarship
Author: Various
Source: Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, February 1995
Pages: 28
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EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH AND ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ AND FROM THE LETTERS OF SHOGHI EFFENDI AND THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE ON SCHOLARSHIP
Prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice
February 1995
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1. THE STATION OF SCHOLARSHIP

1.1 Importance of Knowledge and Learning

From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

1: “Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon…”
Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it. Such arts and material means as are now manifest have been achieved by virtue of His knowledge and wisdom which have been revealed in Epistles and Tablets through His Most Exalted Pen—a Pen out of whose treasury pearls of wisdom and utterance and the arts and crafts of the world are brought to light.
(“Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas” (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988), p. 39) [1]
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