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"Regarding the questions you asked him: there is no objection to children..."
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100 |
Regarding the questions you asked him: there is no objection to children
who are as yet unable to memorize a whole prayer learning certain sentences
only.
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101 |
He does not feel that the friends should make a practice of saying grace
or of teaching it to children. This is not part of the Bahá'í Faith, but a
Christian practice, and as the Cause embraces members of all races and
religions we should be careful not to introduce into it the customs of our
previous beliefs. Bahá'u'lláh has given us the obligatory prayers, also
prayers before sleeping, for travellers, etc. We should not introduce a new
set of prayers He has not specified, when He has given us already so many, for
so many occasions.
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Your work for child education is certainly important, and he urges you to
keep it up.
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(From a letter dated 27 September 1947 written on behalf of Shoghi
Effendi to an individual believer) [135]
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