O handmaid of God!... To the mothers must be given the
divine Teachings and effective counsel, and they must be encouraged and made
eager to train their children, for the mother is the first educator of the
child. It is she who must, at the very beginning, suckle the newborn at the
breast of God’s Faith and God’s Law, that divine love may enter into him even
with his mother’s milk, and be with him till his final breath.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
