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Deep in thought . . .

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March 2012′s ‘thought for the month’:

“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward.

“The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uniformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.”  From The Secret of Divine Civilisation, p109 [32]

Bahá’í educators sentenced

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As Bahá’u’lláh said: “Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom.”

Yet seven Bahá’í educators in Iran have each received four or five year prison sentences, according to reports received by the Bahá’í International Community. How can that be?

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