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Based on “'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Equality of Women”

'Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (1978)

# 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Equality of Women

*From the Bahai Story Library — drawn from* **Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá** *by 'Abdu'l-Bahá* (1978).

> "The world of humanity has two wings — one is woman, the other man. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly."

From Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, a Tablet addressed to the women of the East and the West setting out the principle of the equality of women and men as a foundational teaching of the Bahá'í Dispensation.

In *Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá* a number of Tablets address themselves directly to the question of the equality of women and men. Among the most quoted is the Tablet in which the Master sets the principle in the form of a single governing image: the two wings of a bird, neither of which can be allowed to remain weaker than the other if the bird is to fly. > The world of humanity has two wings — one is woman, the > other man. Not until both wings are equally developed can > the bird fly. […]

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