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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 22-23

57: …it is enjoined upon the father and mother, as a duty, to strive with all…
…it is enjoined upon the father and mother, as a duty, to strive with all effort to train the daughter and the son, to nurse them from the breast of knowledge and to rear them in the bosom of sciences and arts. Should they neglect this matter, they shall be held responsible and worthy of reproach in the presence of the stern Lord.
(“Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”, sec. 98, p. 127) [57]
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