|
“63: O thou steadfast in the Covenant!…”
|
O thou steadfast in the Covenant!
|
In reply to thy letter, I am obliged to be brief: Praise thou God that
thou hast succeeded in becoming a teacher of young Bahá’ís, young trees of
the Abhá Paradise, and at the same time art able to benefit the other children
as well.
|
According to the explicit divine Text, teaching the children is
indispensable and obligatory. It followeth that teachers are servants of the
Lord God, since they have arisen to perform this task, which is the same as
worship. You must therefore offer praise with every breath, for you are
educating your spiritual children.
|
The spiritual father is greater than the physical one, for the latter
bestoweth but this world’s life, whereas the former endoweth his child with
life everlasting. This is why, in the Law of God, teachers are listed among
the heirs.
|
Now you in reality have acquired all these spiritual children free and
gratis, and that is better than having physical children; for such children are
not grateful to their fathers, since they feel that the father serveth them
because he must—and therefore no matter what he doeth for them, they pay it
no mind. Spiritual children, however, are always appreciative of their
father’s loving kindness. This verily is out of the grace of thy Lord, the
Beneficent.
|
(From a Tablet - translated from the Persian) [63]
|
Print Selection