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"... O maid-servants of the Merciful! It is incumbent upon you to train..."

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... O maid-servants of the Merciful! It is incumbent upon you to train the children from their earliest babyhood! It is incumbent upon you to beautify their morals! It is incumbent upon you to attend to them under all aspects and circumstances, inasmuch as God -- glorified and exalted is He! -- hath ordained mothers to be the primary trainers of children and infants. This is a great and important affair and a high and exalted position, and it is not allowable to slacken therein at all!

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If thou walkest in this right path, thou wouldst become a real mother to the children, both spiritually and materially....

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("Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas", vol. III (Chicago: Bahá'í Publishing Society, 1916), Vol. III, p. 606) [90]

"Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of thine eye [1] ... and..."

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Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of thine eye [2] ... and to thy younger son ... Verily I love them both even as a compassionate father loveth his dear children. As to thee, have for them an abundant love and exert thine utmost in training them, so that their being may grow through the milk of the love of God, forasmuch as it is the duty of parents to perfectly and thoroughly train their children.

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There are also certain sacred duties on children toward parents, which duties are written in the Book of God, as belonging to God. [3] The (children's) prosperity in this world and the Kingdom depends upon the good pleasure of parents, and without this they will be in manifest loss.

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("Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas", vol. II (Chicago: Bahá'í Publishing Society, 1915), Vol. II, pp. 262-3) [91]

Notes

1. ["Consolation of thine eye" - idiomatic Persian expression meaning "child"]

2. ["Consolation of thine eye" - idiomatic Persian expression meaning "child"]

3. [In Questions and Answers, an appendix to the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá'u'lláh lays upon children the obligation of serving their parents and categorically states that after the recognition of the oneness of God, the most important of all duties for children is to have due regard for the rights of their parents.]


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