tag name International auxiliary language type: Miscellaneous; Principles, teachings; Translation, languages web link bahai-library.com/tags/International_auxiliary_language variations or mis-spellings IAL; universal language related tags – Concepts; – Language; Communication; Constructed languages; Signs of the coming of age of humanity; Unity of humanity referring tags Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Selected topics; Lango language; Language learning; Speculation Inventory subject Universal language notes See also: Materials Provided by the Bahá'í World Centre on Universal Auxiliary Language (2002)
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"... O members of parliaments throughout the world! Select ye a single language for the use of all on earth, and adopt ye likewise a common script. God, verily, maketh plain for you that which shall profit you and enable you to be independent of others. He, of a truth, is the Most Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. This will be the cause of unity, could ye but comprehend it, and the greatest instrument for promoting harmony and civilization, would that ye might understand! ..."
– Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶ 189 (see: Signs for the Coming of Age of the Human Race)"... It behooveth the sovereigns of the world ... or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Bishárát (Glad-Tidings), ¶5"... The day is approaching when all the peoples of the world will have adopted one universal language and one common script. When this is achieved, to whatsoever city a man may journey, it shall be as if he were entering his own home. These things are obligatory and absolutely essential. It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Maqṣúd (Tablet of Maqṣúd), ¶10
bahaidata.org Q678 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_auxiliary_language; bahaiquotes.com/subject/universal-language; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="auxiliary language"; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="universal language"
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