- The Role & Goal of Education
- [Some thoughts for Students, Parents &
Teachers]
A few words for the Parents
1. Serve your parents in serving the Lord :
Be always aware that none of your words or deeds ever make
your parents sad. Follows the path of Truth which indeed is a straight path. Should anyone
give you a choice between the opportunity to render a service to God and a service to
them, choose to serve them, and let such service be a path leading you to God.
2. Have regard for the rights of your parents :
The fruits of the tree of existence are trustworthiness,
loyalty, truthfulness and purity. After the recognition of the oneness of the Lord, the
most important of all duties is to have due regard for the rights of One's parents.
This matter has been mentioned in all the Books of God.
3. The Lord will bless you for honouring your parents :
Show honour to your parents and pay homage to them. This
will cause blessings to descend upon you from the bountry of the Lord.
4. Serve your Father :
We have enjoined upon every son to serve his father. Thus
have we decreed this command in the Holy Book.
5. Be a son in spirituality :
O dear one of God Be the son of your father and be the
fruit of that tree. Be a son that hath been born of his soul and heart and not only of
water and clay. A real son is such a one as hath branched from the spiritual part of man.
I ask God that you may be at all times. Confirmed and strengthened.
6. Workshop your sacred duties towards your parents :
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 depends upon the good pleasure of parents, and without this they
will be in manifest loss.
7. Show kindness towards your parents :
If thou wouldst show kindness and consideration to your
parents so that they may feel generally pleased, this would also please God, for parents
must be highly respected and it is essential that they should feel contented, provided
they deter you not from gaining access to the Threshold of the Almighty, nor keep you back
from walking in the way of the Kingdom. indeed it is their duty to encourage and spur you
on it this direction.
8. Be a humble servant of your Father :
The son must show forth the utmost obedience towards his
father, and should conduct himself as humble and a lowly servant. Day and night he should
seek diligently to ensure the comfort and welfare of his loving father and to secure his
own rest and, enjoyment and constantly strive to bring gladness to the heart of his father
and mother, that thereby he may attain the good-pleasure of the Almighty and be graciously
aided by the hosts of the unseen.