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Knowledge is as wings to man’s life . . .

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Welcome to Thames Valley Bahai Community’s regular ‘thought for the month’ Bahai webpost.

Each thought is taken from the Bahai Reference Library.

Here’s October’s ‘thought for the month’: “Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words….

“In truth, knowledge is a veritable treasure for man, and a source of glory, of bounty, of joy, of exaltation, of cheer and gladness unto him. Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.”  (From Epistle to the Song of the Wolf , pp 26-27)

Education is the most urgent requirement

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Thames Valley Baha’i Community has relaunched its regular ‘thought for the month’ Baha’i webposts.

 ‘Thought for the month’ highlights selected writings of the Bahá’í Faith, each taken from the Bahai Reference Library.

September’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.” The Secret of Divine Civilisation, p109 [32]