Knowledge

Knowledge is Power
~ Sir Francis Bacon

There is nothing more important than knowledge and education. What is the main cause of fear? Lack of knowledge. We fear what we don't understand.

This is why the Zoroastrians portray God as Ahura Mazda, the Light of Wisdom, whereas the Devil is depicted as Ahriman or Angra Mainyu, the Torrential Abyss of Ignorance.

Fear, hatred, sin and malevolence – they are all the products of ignorance. This is why the Devil is the Darkness for if God is Light and God is Knowledge, then Knowledge is Light and Evil is the lack of Knowledge i.e. the lack of Light which is Darkness. This is the Wisdom of the Zoroastrian faith.

There is a reason the central codex of every religion lies within a text, within words. There is a reason God did not choose to reveal Themselves to us with angels descending from the sky on a carpet of clouds. There is a reason that They chose to leave Their Mark in the hearts of humankind through the Word: the Torah, the Gospel, the Quran, the Vedas, the Avesta, whatever it may have been, it has always been in words and the richest of words at that.

The Torah laid down in the most esoteric of Hebrew words, the Quran written in the most poetic of Arabic,
the words have remained unmatched in eloquence throughout all of time and history, and what is it that you need to understand words, to read? Education. Knowledge. God wanted us to learn, to have the ability to read, to understand and comprehend. They preserved Their Remembrance throughout the ages in words and this is
what we need most to understand Them and Their creation. We need knowledge.

Knowledge is the Path to Salvation. Ignorance is the Path to Damnation.

— Fahim Ferdous Kibria