Guidance on Family Life

Regard Each Other as Family

Source: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London

 ‘Abdu’l-Baha laid great stress on Education. He said “The girl’s education is of more importance today than the boy’s, for she is the mother of the future race. It is the duty of all to look after the children. Those without children should, if possible, make themselves responsible for the education of a child.”

      The condition of the destitute in the country villages as well as in London impressed ‘Abdu’l-Baha greatly. In an earnest talk with the Rector of a Parish, ‘Abdu’l-Baha said: “I find England awake; there is spiritual life here. But your poor are so very poor! This should not be. On the one hand you have wealth, and great luxury; on the other hand men and women are living in the extremities of hunger and want. This great contrast of life is one of the blots on the civilization of this enlightened age.

      “You must turn attention more earnestly to the betterment of the conditions of the poor. Do not be satisfied until each one with whom you are concerned is to you as a member of your family. Regard each one either as a father, or as a brother, or as a sister, or as a mother, or as a child. If you can attain to this, your difficulties will vanish, you will know what to do. This is the teaching of Bahá’u’llah.”

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