Ocean of Lights

Reported Utterance

Words to Dr. Coles, spoken on 1914-04-18

30 words

Notes:

Paraphrase

Translation:

Provisional translation

religion must ever become the cause of amity and love, otherwise irreligion is better; and science at the same time must be the means of human progress and enlightenment. If science creates deadly weapons for human slaughter and destruction it is worse than ignorance.

Translations (1)

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.1914-04-18

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=38