It may be that letters addressed to the women believers do
indeed contain certain passages written by way of encouragement, but the
purpose of such passages is to show that, in this wondrous Dispensation,
certain women have outshone certain men—not that all women have excelled all
men! The members of the Spiritual Assembly should do all they can to give encouragement
to the women. In this Dispensation one should not think in terms of “men” and
“women”: all are under the shadow of the Word of God and, as they strive more
diligently, so shall their reward be greater—be they men or women or the
frailest of people.... As for the large number of Tablets addressed to women
enjoining them to teach the Cause: since
the letters arriving in the Holy Land come for the most part from women, and
only rarely from men, it is natural that women should be written to more
frequently than men....
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, ‘Additional Tablets,
Extracts and Talks”; Online Baha’i Reference Library, Baha’i World Center)
