Tablet catalog
Words to a mother, spoken on 1913-05-15
OOL 06 10489 Phelps: ABU 0985
ABU 0985•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Reported Utterance
Words to a mother, spoken on 1913-05-15
310 words

بتربیت الهی تربیت شوند نه مثل اینکه حالا مادران از بدایت عمر به پسران میگویند

Notes:
Zarqani and Sohrab have different wording
Translation:
Provisional translation
How are your children? Are they well? Do you give them an ideal education? The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow.
BDA. Zarqání, Maḥmúd. Kitáb-i Badáyi`u'l-Áthár (2 vols.). Bahá'í-Verlag, 1987. Vol. 1 (translated as MHMD1): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/241.pdf, Vol. 2 (translated as MHMD2): https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/242.pdf
BDA2.301x
http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-309.html
DAS. Diary notebooks and letters of Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Dec. 1912 – Jun. 1915. English and Persian diary notebooks and letters held in the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Often quoted in other sources such as SW. Catalog entries are indexed by date and include only the English notebooks and letters. Letters from 1 Jul 1913 through 19 Oct. 1914 found here: https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914
DAS.1913-05-15
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MHMD2. Masumian, Adib (trans.). ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Europe 1912-1913: The Talks and Travels of the Master as Recorded by Mírzá Maḥmúd Zarqání. George Ronald, 2024. English Translation of BDA2
MHMD2.398x
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