Deliver my longings and greetings to the consolation of
thine eye [1], ……, and to thy younger son, ……. Verily I love them both even as
a compassionate father loveth his dear children. As to thee, have for them an
abundant love and exert thine utmost in training them, so that their being may
grow through the milk of the love of God, forasmuch as it is the duty of
parents to perfectly and thoroughly train their children.
There are also certain sacred duties on children toward
parents, which duties are written in the Book of God, as belonging to God. The
(children’s) prosperity in this world and the Kingdom depends upon the good
pleasure of parents, and without this they will be in manifest loss.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
[1] “Consolation of the eye”—idiomatic Persian expression
meaning “son.”
