Guidance on Family Life

Family – One for All

Source: The Promulgation of Universal Peace

Talk at Church of the Ascension Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street
New York, 2 June 1912

‘Abdu’l-Baha answered the following question:

Question: What is the attitude of your belief toward the family?

Answer: According to the teachings of Baha’u’llah the family, being a human unit, must be educated according to the rules of sanctity. All the virtues must be taught the family. The integrity of the family bond must be constantly considered, and the rights of the individual members must not be transgressed. The rights of the son, the father, the mother—none of them must be transgressed, none of them must be arbitrary. Just as the son has certain obligations to his father, the father, likewise, has certain obligations to his son. The mother, the sister and other members of the household have their certain prerogatives. All these rights and prerogatives must be conserved, yet the unity of the family must be sustained. The injury of one shall be considered the injury of all; the comfort of each, the comfort of all; the honor of one, the honor of all.

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