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"The school for girls taketh precedence over the school for boys, for it is..."
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The school for girls taketh precedence over the school for boys, for it is
incumbent upon the girls of this glorious era to be fully versed in the various
branches of knowledge, in sciences and the arts and all the wonders of this
pre-eminent time, that they may then educate their children and train them from
their earliest days in the ways of perfection.
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If, as she ought, the mother possesseth the learning and accomplishments
of humankind, her children, like unto angels, will be fostered in all
excellence, in right conduct and beauty. Therefore the School for Girls that
hath been established in that place must be made the object of the deep concern
and high endeavours of the friends. The teachers of that school are handmaids
close to the Sacred Threshold, for they are of those who, obedient to the
commandments of the Blessed Beauty, have arisen to educate the girl children.
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The day will come when those children will be mothers, and each one of
them in her deep gratitude will offer up prayers and supplications to Almighty
God and ask that her teachers will be granted joy and well-being forever, and a
high station in the Kingdom of God.
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Name ye this school the Mawhibat School (The School of Bounty).
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(From a Tablet - translated from the Persian) [80]
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