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A Compilation on Scholarship
Author: Various
Source: Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, February 1995
Pages: 28
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45: “And every branch of learning, conjoined with the love of God, is approved…”
And every branch of learning, conjoined with the love of God, is approved and worthy of praise; but bereft of His love, learning is barren—indeed, it bringeth on madness. Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire.
(“Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”, section 154) [45]
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