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Extracts From the Writings and Utterances of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: 8: From the beginning of existence until the Promised Day men retained superiority… |
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From the beginning of existence until the Promised Day men retained superiority
over women in every respect. It is revealed in the Qur’án: “Men have
superiority over women.” But in this wondrous Dispensation, the supreme
outpouring of the Glorious Lord became the cause of manifest achievements by
women. Some handmaidens arose who excelled men in the arena of knowledge.
They arose with such love and spirituality that they became the cause of the
outpouring of the bounty of the Sovereign Lord upon mankind, and with their
sanctity, purity and attributes of the spirit led a great many to the shore of
unity. They became a guiding torch to the wanderers in the wastes of
bewilderment, and enkindled the despondent in the nether world with the flame
of the love of the Lord. This is a bounteous characteristic of this wondrous
Age which hath granted strength to the weaker sex and hath bestowed masculine
might upon womanhood….
(From a Tablet - translated from the Persian) [8] |
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