A new version of the Bahá’í Reference Library is now available. This ‘old version’ of the Bahá’í Reference Library will be replaced at a later date.
The new version of the Bahá’i Reference Library can be accessed here »
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 |
[Table of contents elided]
1
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] |