Mother
Responsibilities toward mothers[edit]
Comfort and provide happiness for mother[edit]
"Comfort thy mother and endeavour to do what is conducive to the happiness of her heart...."
- (Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, vol. 1, p. 74; also in Family Life (compilation), no. 20)
Prayer for mother[edit]
Responsibilities of mothers[edit]
"When the children are ready for bed, let the mother read or sing them the Odes of the Blessed Beauty, so that from their earliest years they will be educated by these verses of guidance."
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, from a Tablet - translated from the Persian, Bahá'í Education (compilation), no. 75)
If Mother is Educated Then Her Children Will Be Well Taught[edit]
"If the mother is educated then her children will be well taught. When the mother is wise, then will the children be led into the path of wisdom. If the mother be religious she will show her children how they should love God. If the mother is moral she guides her little ones into the ways of uprightness... Therefore, surely, God is not pleased that so important an instrument as woman should suffer from want of training in order to attain the perfections desirable and necessary for her great life's work! Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!"
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá: Paris Talks, p. 162, U.K. 1941 ed., in Lights of Guidance, no. 2085)
