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“91: Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of thine eye… and…” |
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Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of thine eye
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to thy younger son … Verily I love them both even as a compassionate father
loveth his dear children. As to thee, have for them an abundant love and exert
thine utmost in training them, so that their being may grow through the milk of
the love of God, forasmuch as it is the duty of parents to perfectly and
thoroughly train their children.
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There are also certain sacred duties on children toward parents, which
duties are written in the Book of God, as belonging to God.
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The (children’s)
prosperity in this world and the Kingdom depends upon the good pleasure of
parents, and without this they will be in manifest loss.
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“Consolation of thine eye” - idiomatic Persian expression meaning “child”
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In Questions and Answers, an appendix to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá’u’lláh lays upon children the obligation of serving their parents and categorically states that after the recognition of the oneness of God, the most important of all duties for children is to have due regard for the rights of their parents.
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