Words to a newspaper reporter, spoken on 1912-10-19
OOL 06 50018 Phelps: ABU 1982
ABU 1982‘Abdu’l-BaháPersian
Reported Utterance
Words to a newspaper reporter, spoken on 1912-10-19
140 words

در عالم وجود دو مدنیت موجود مدنیت مادیه و مدنیت الهیه فلاسفه موًسس مدنیت مادی بوده اند

Translation:
Provisional translation
In the world of existence, civilization is found to be of two kinds: material civilization and spiritual civilization. Philosophers founded the former while the divine Prophets established the latter.