tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25847315355359288062024-03-28T08:35:05.055-04:00Daily Inspirations from Baha'i Writings & LiteratureTo use the Search Feature on mobile devices: scroll down to the very bottom of the page, click on View Web Version. The search box will appear on the top right corner of the screen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger847125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-46060503581158175962024-03-28T08:34:00.001-04:002024-03-28T08:34:19.551-04:00First Baha'i meeting place in Australia<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Ow4FfxOoJqEaRVEUfS2CfBBs5ZoBkr-ioy254TJXnT-6IOYw1rIr1s9vViIJS_UHEnW3kBu6XVIYtks-S1ZflNu_Nc2xX0oW586kwcP-DAhPuE3-q9zOQdr8t83hLiyaIuBZgw6MooJTygMnXOZrkVq1JfGSPDmDu-MExRNmmNq9N_-_w5IydaCrhFUh/s1024/Mr%20and%20Mrs%20Dunn's%20first%20flat%20in%20Avoca%20st%20Sydney%20Australia-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="688" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Ow4FfxOoJqEaRVEUfS2CfBBs5ZoBkr-ioy254TJXnT-6IOYw1rIr1s9vViIJS_UHEnW3kBu6XVIYtks-S1ZflNu_Nc2xX0oW586kwcP-DAhPuE3-q9zOQdr8t83hLiyaIuBZgw6MooJTygMnXOZrkVq1JfGSPDmDu-MExRNmmNq9N_-_w5IydaCrhFUh/s320/Mr%20and%20Mrs%20Dunn's%20first%20flat%20in%20Avoca%20st%20Sydney%20Australia-1.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mr. and Mrs. Dunn's first flat in Avoca Street, Randwick,
Sydney, N.S.W. First Baha'i meeting-place in Australia. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The Baha'i World,
1932-1934)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-75850101515131780442024-03-27T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-27T05:00:00.255-04:00Concerning Buddha and Confucius<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thou hast written regarding Buddha and Confucius. Buddha was
an illustrious personage. Confucius became the cause of civilization,
advancement and prosperity for the people of China. Now it is not the time when
we discuss concerning the stations and positions of those who are passed away.
We must concentrate our attention upon the present. What hath transpired in a
former time is past. Now is the time when we restrict our discussion to the
Most Great Luminary of Peace and Salvation in this Age, to talk of the Blessed
Perfection [Bahá'u'lláh] and to voice His exhortations, behests and teachings.
Buddha and Confucius were kings in bygone ages who have disappeared. Their
sovereignty in this world is ended and their cycle is completed. Now the Throne
of the Kingdom of Abha is established and the Blessed Perfection is sitting
upon the Throne of Grandeur. We must raise this Call, promulgate the Word of
God and live in accord with the teachings and advices of the Beauty of Abha. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- ‘Abdu’l-Baha</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(‘Tablets of Abdul-Baha
Abbas", vol. 2’; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. I,</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster and Related
Subjects)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-88351066325444462152024-03-26T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-26T05:00:00.290-04:00Punishment of those “who deny Him Who is the Sublime Gate of God”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">“As to those who deny Him Who is the Sublime Gate of God,”
the Báb, for His part, has affirmed in the Qayyúm-i-Asmá’, “for them We have
prepared, as justly decreed by God, a sore torment. And He, God, is the Mighty,
the Wise.” And further, “O peoples of the earth! I swear by your Lord! Ye shall
act as former generations have acted. Warn ye, then, yourselves of the
terrible, the most grievous vengeance of God. For God is, verily, potent over
all things.” And again: “By My glory! I will make the infidels to taste, with
the hands of My power, retributions unknown of anyone except Me, and will waft
over the faithful those musk-scented breaths which I have nursed in the midmost
heart of My throne.” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Shoghi Effendi</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘The Promised Day Is Come’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-79596641323978414562024-03-25T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-25T05:00:00.254-04:00“Resort ye, in times of sickness, to competent physicians”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Resort ye, in times of sickness, to competent physicians; We
have not set aside the use of material means, rather have We confirmed it
through this Pen, which God hath made to be the Dawning-place of His shining
and glorious Cause. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Baha'u'llah <span style="font-size: x-small;"> ('The Kitab-i-Aqdas')</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-47416829442339243332024-03-24T05:00:00.000-04:002024-03-24T05:00:00.265-04:001914: Sixth Annual Convention of Baha'i Temple Unity, USA<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg27HXNZXuoJmqm7LgRyhD2Ot45mXlybOw-Vgo5h7XoUoZdr4OZfVVUFeqfBshjAxjM1ZcwN5GxN8H6lj6Jp9b-4jd7YUVpoFOCXxQZiKk6c0w77v87mYTHlUofLWZGuxtxWWlXEo6vOHv_RbqlhqbI1uwUARy4j5cceuk6TsH9sc3x8T06AVYXUNSHOini/s1024/sixth%20annual%20convention%20of%20Baha'i%20Temple%20Unity-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="1024" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg27HXNZXuoJmqm7LgRyhD2Ot45mXlybOw-Vgo5h7XoUoZdr4OZfVVUFeqfBshjAxjM1ZcwN5GxN8H6lj6Jp9b-4jd7YUVpoFOCXxQZiKk6c0w77v87mYTHlUofLWZGuxtxWWlXEo6vOHv_RbqlhqbI1uwUARy4j5cceuk6TsH9sc3x8T06AVYXUNSHOini/w412-h223/sixth%20annual%20convention%20of%20Baha'i%20Temple%20Unity-1.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Delegates and friends gathered on the site of the first
Mashriqu'l-Adhkar to be erected in America</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-57707663801076912452024-03-23T05:00:00.002-04:002024-03-23T23:52:14.725-04:00Akka 1891: British orientalist E.G. Browne meets ‘Abdu’l-Baha for the first time<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Seldom have I seen one whose appearance impressed me more. A
tall strongly-built man holding himself straight as an arrow, with white turban
and raiment, long black locks reaching almost to the shoulder, broad powerful
forehead indicating a strong intellect combined with an unswerving will, eyes
keen as a hawk's, and strongly-marked but pleasing features -- such was my
first impression of 'Abbas Efendi, 'the master' (Aka) [Aqa] as he par
excellence is called by the Bábís. Subsequent conversation with him served only
to heighten the respect with which his appearance had from the first inspired
me. One more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of
illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the
Christians, and the Muhammadans, could, I should think, scarcely be found even
amongst the eloquent, ready, and subtle race to which he belongs. These
qualities, combined with a bearing at once majestic and genial, made me cease
to wonder at the influence and esteem which he enjoyed even beyond the circle
of his father's followers. About the greatness of this man and his power no one
who had seen him could entertain a doubt. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- E.G. Browne</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Quoted by Hand of the Cause Balyuzi in ‘E.G.
Browne and the Baha’i Faith’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-6468285337544832392024-03-22T06:31:00.007-04:002024-03-22T06:31:43.410-04:00Nabil’s chronicle gives us “not only great historical value but high moral power”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSX019oqsU8TTzBWiAp6t11BY7mo7o9Mcvqy2iRl1iKjwq-RRH9ogGiTi92tFY84RQf85zQXfVze8mXcOzwPy0cq-zCcaeu69QGi0infWNOGXjB2ayxoKwGwlmYphH-itU3vWybtbfR-iFPzUxybCmbJwHBZdEVRHKQ3bwcFOfa3Lf2-bgaLVcjVOkjomk/s100/ME-art-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="77" data-original-width="100" height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSX019oqsU8TTzBWiAp6t11BY7mo7o9Mcvqy2iRl1iKjwq-RRH9ogGiTi92tFY84RQf85zQXfVze8mXcOzwPy0cq-zCcaeu69QGi0infWNOGXjB2ayxoKwGwlmYphH-itU3vWybtbfR-iFPzUxybCmbJwHBZdEVRHKQ3bwcFOfa3Lf2-bgaLVcjVOkjomk/s1600/ME-art-11.jpg" width="100" /></a></div>The Bahá’í Movement is now well known throughout the world,
and the time has come when Nabíl’s unique narrative of its beginnings in
darkest Persia will interest many readers. The record which he sets down with
such devoted care is in many respects extraordinary. It has its thrilling
passages, and the splendour of the central theme gives to the chronicle not
only great historical value but high moral power. Its lights are strong; and
this effect is more intense because they seem like a sunburst at midnight. The
tale is one of struggle and martyrdom; its poignant scenes, its tragic
incidents are many. Corruption, fanaticisms and cruelty gather against the
cause of reformation to destroy it, and the present volume closes at the point
where a riot of hate seems to have accomplished its purpose and to have driven
into exile or put to death every man, woman, and child in Persia who dared to
profess a leaning towards the teaching of the Báb. <p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Shoghi Effendi</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘Introduction to ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-10798519548805489922024-03-21T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-21T05:00:00.132-04:00Bahá'u'lláh was keenly affected by and opposed to all manifestations of injustice<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">While still young [possibly early teens], the Blessed Beauty
[Bahá'u'lláh] watched as a government tax-collector, on three separate
occasions, accosted His father and demanded, in a cruel and unjust manner, the
payment of taxes. Unable to bear the injustice of it all, He, though still
young, mounted His horse and rode for two days until He arrived in Tihran.
There, He sought the dismissal of this unjust and tyrannical tax-collector. He
succeeded in obtaining the necessary papers ordering the dismissal, and returned
to His parents.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Adapted from Memoirs of Dr. Diya Baghdadi, unpublished,
reporting words heard from 'Abdu'l-Baha in ‘Stories of Bahá'u'lláh’, compiled
by Hand of the Cause Ali-Akbar Furutan)</span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-61339403420044933992024-03-20T08:54:00.000-04:002024-03-20T08:54:00.063-04:00The comprehension of the rational soul<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The foremost degree of comprehension in the world of nature
is that of the rational soul. This power and comprehension is shared in common
by all men, whether they be heedless or aware, wayward or faithful. In the
creation of God, the rational soul of man encompasses and is distinguished
above all other created things: It is by virtue of its nobility and distinction
that it encompasses them all. Through the power of the rational soul, man can
discover the realities of things, comprehend their properties, and penetrate
the mysteries of existence. All the sciences, branches of learning, arts,
inventions, institutions, undertakings, and discoveries have resulted from the
comprehension of the rational soul. These were once impenetrable secrets,
hidden mysteries, and unknown realities, and the rational soul gradually
discovered them and brought them out of the invisible plane into the realm of
the visible. This is the greatest power of comprehension in the world of
nature, and the uttermost limit of its flight is to comprehend the realities,
signs, and properties of contingent things.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- ‘Abdu’l-Baha <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Table talks in Akka, authenticated by ‘Abdu’l-Baha;
‘Some Answered Questions’ – 2014 revised translation by the Baha’i World Centre)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-87504396183451087372024-03-19T08:01:00.004-04:002024-03-19T08:01:27.174-04:00A Baha’i Teaching: Abrogation and nullification of prejudices - whether religious, racial, patriotic or political<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">They <span style="font-size: x-small;">[Teachings of Baha’u’llah]</span> abrogate and nullify
religious, racial, political, patriotic and economic prejudices and the like. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- ‘Abdu'l-Baha <span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Bahá'u'lláh also taught that prejudices -- whether
religious, racial, patriotic or political -- are destructive to the foundations
of human development. Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human
happiness and welfare. Until they are dispelled, the advancement of the world
of humanity is not possible; yet racial, religious and national biases are
observed everywhere. For thousands of years the world of humanity has been
agitated and disturbed by prejudices. As long as it prevails, warfare, animosity
and hatred will continue. Therefore, if we seek to establish peace, we must
cast aside this obstacle; for otherwise, agreement and composure are not to be
attained. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- ‘Abdu’l-Baha <span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered
by 'Abdu'l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912’)</span></span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-6131171939729482132024-03-18T06:09:00.009-04:002024-03-18T06:09:55.047-04:001914 -- First group photograph taken of 'Abdu'l-Baha in the Holy Land<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWo8IwlGrwQVa_CTkbSp5EN1YCY7p6hOlsbVaWP-XL1PPhOS3PTYJcEE_MPkcqwQlp6OvGrj8wFnl2CW46reQj6TG5TqdUWAq4KKn93wezphDjxU0RVa8d5UOJO28VgYJI3T1afD3wBZT1yau-fsw8BzLhWoQBkPIcY56jyMSGyANMk1eOll6E-jv63C7l/s1024/First%20Photo%20of%20the%20Master%20in%20Holy%20Land-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1024" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWo8IwlGrwQVa_CTkbSp5EN1YCY7p6hOlsbVaWP-XL1PPhOS3PTYJcEE_MPkcqwQlp6OvGrj8wFnl2CW46reQj6TG5TqdUWAq4KKn93wezphDjxU0RVa8d5UOJO28VgYJI3T1afD3wBZT1yau-fsw8BzLhWoQBkPIcY56jyMSGyANMk1eOll6E-jv63C7l/w464-h287/First%20Photo%20of%20the%20Master%20in%20Holy%20Land-1.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-27095129147630212012024-03-17T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-17T05:00:00.205-04:00Dr. Susan Moody: - Amatu’l-A’la (The handmaid of the Most High), who “forged first link in (the) chain uniting (the) spiritual destinies” of Persia and the American Baha’i Community<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJbJaC53Ey_3zA2TPV_RydzGqKk6LYO8kpX3nOKIGJ4FgdAWzmYbRl_kailKt6IjZ7mrh-migS-Qb4VJZYVxvekVWuuM1QkTjWDHYf8ca6GsqdCdqt6H_YLyD0lxFCfUaKNHRAwHIxUIh0W7G1eQeIekqutC3L3lC9NAVVgZl5Bf8DC2IacijmkFOGBWO/s320/Dr%20Moody-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="203" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJbJaC53Ey_3zA2TPV_RydzGqKk6LYO8kpX3nOKIGJ4FgdAWzmYbRl_kailKt6IjZ7mrh-migS-Qb4VJZYVxvekVWuuM1QkTjWDHYf8ca6GsqdCdqt6H_YLyD0lxFCfUaKNHRAwHIxUIh0W7G1eQeIekqutC3L3lC9NAVVgZl5Bf8DC2IacijmkFOGBWO/s1600/Dr%20Moody-2.jpg" width="203" /></a></div>(by Jessie E. Revell)<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"In reality," says 'Abdu'l-Baha, "faith
embodies three degrees: to confess with the tongue; to believe in the heart; to
give evidence in our actions." In writing a brief account of the life of
Dr. Susan I. Moody the real faith, as quoted here, is outstanding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She was born November 20, 1851 in Amsterdam, New York, of
Scotch-Covenanter parents. Here she received the usual schooling and orthodox
religious training of the "best" families of the day. After
graduating from Amsterdam Academy, she taught school, later entered the Women's
Medical College in New York City. After her parents passed away, she made her
home with her brother in Chicago where she studied music. Still later, Dr.
Moody studied painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, then for
three years in the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then under the great
painter Chase, in New York and finally, in the art schools studios of Paris,
but she was not, however, to make art her life work for instead of following
the professional art career, for which she was well qualified, she finally
yielded to the constantly increasing urge which she felt and concluded her
study of medicine, graduating from a Chicago medical college.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">During those early days of her life in Chicago, she met
friends who were attending the first classes formed for the study of the Baha'i
Revelation, which classes she joined but did not become a confirmed believer
until 1903, after making an intensive study of the teachings with Mrs. Isabella
D. Brittingham, for the privilege of whose teaching Dr. Moody was always
exceedingly grateful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first Baha’i Sunday School in Chicago was conducted by
Dr. Moody and later she was one of the group of Baha'i sisters who traveled up
and down the outskirts of Chicago's north side in search of the best location
for the now famous Baha’i Temple in Wilmette, Illinois.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About 1908 a party of American Baha'is traveled to Iran to
visit the Baha'is in that land, and while there some Iranian doctors asked if
it would be possible to induce an American woman doctor to come to Tehran,
Iran, to live, for the purpose of caring for the women of Iran who at that time
were so deprived of skilled medical care. Stopping in 'Akka, Palestine, on
their return, the Americans communicated this wish to 'Abdu'l-Baha who asked
them if they knew of such a doctor. The name of Dr. Moody was presented, and
she received word without delay from 'Ahdu'l-Baha telling her she had been
chosen for this great medical work in Iran. "I knew then," Dr. Moody
often remarked, "why I had felt the urge so strongly to study medicine; I
was obliged to study medicine in order to come to Iran." When the call
came from 'Abdu'l-Baha, she proceeded immediately on her journey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Enroute to Iran, Dr. Moody stopped in the Holy Land to see
'Abdu'l-Baha and receive from Him the necessary instructions and encouragement
for the work ahead of her. At the time of parting He said, "You will need
patience." He also further stated that He was sending her to Iran and
whether living or dead He would always be with her. During that visit with
'Abdu'l-Baha, Dr. Moody made a vow which was, "All that I am and have, and
all that I hope to be and have, I dedicate to Thee, O God." She also said
that those three days in the Holy Land with the Master, 'Abdu'l-Baha, were all
her life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Moody arrived in Tehran November 26, 1909. 'Abdu'l-Baha
mentioned to some pilgrims the great love with which the Baha’is of Iran had
greeted Dr. Moody when she arrived in Iran, saying that between Enzeli, on the
Caspian Sea, and Tehran there were nineteen relay stations and at sixteen of
these there were Baha'is gathered to greet the western Baha'i. Soon after her
arrival a reception was given to her and Dr. Moody then knew she had an eternal
home in the hearts of these dear friends.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">During her fifteen years of service to the Cause in Iran,
many were her difficulties and hardships but she had an inflexible
determination to accomplish what 'Abdu'l-Baha wished her to do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Often she prayed for the supreme patience which 'Abdu'l-Baha
had prescribed. She soon became fluent in the Iranian language. Frequent were
her letters to America, explaining her work, enclosing photographs and telling
of the lack of freedom and education of the Iranian women, of the custom of
wearing the veil, etc., of the Baha'i work of establishing a hospital, a girl's
school and a Mashriqu’l-Adhkar there. In a Tehrin newspaper in 1910 appeared
the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"DOCTOR MOODY-AMERICAN LADY- not only does she know
medicine, but also gynecology, obstetrics and women's diseases. Her good
qualities and kind attributes, her love for her Persian oriental sisters, are
all equal. Every day from morning till noon she is in her office, No. 10 Avenue
Aladauleh, receiving her patients for consultation, examination and treatment,
excepting Friday and Sunday afternoons, when she goes to the Hospital Sehat
(Hospital of Health), where she meets the patients of the higher and wealthier
class.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"We give the utmost thanks and gratitude to such a
noble woman, to such a respected person, whose presence here is a great
privilege to the country of Persia. On account of the great care of this
blessed person, the sick of all nationalities, Moslem, et al., become well. We
beg of God to keep this blessed and respected person with US.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Aside from her medical work, there was ever present in her
mind the most important question of the education of girls. Often she would
say, "My heart aches for the neglected ones." She found that many of
the Baha’i men were in full sympathy with her views and through Baha’i
cooperation and consultation a girl's school was started with an attendance of
thirty pupils. It has now an enrollment of several hundred and is known as the
Tarbiyat School for Girls. Someone has declared it to he "the greatest
among all the schools in Tehran." One of the activities most dear to the
heart of Dr. Moody was the raising of funds for an additional building. She
wished this fund to be known as the "Kappes Memorial Fund" in memory
of Miss Lillian Kappes, the first American Baha'i teacher who died in Iran
after giving nine years of untiring service to the School. Dr. Moody not only
started the Tarbiyat School for the secular education of girls, she also
founded the Baha'i study classes for girls and herself visited these classes
every Friday. These study classes were managed by trained teachers and in these
classes many who started years ago in the first course … [started] .. teaching
others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Moody was loved and honored by thousands of people in
her life time, among them being Major Robert W. Imbrie, who offered protection
to the Baha’is and who suffered martyrdom by fanatical Muhammadans. During the
epidemic of influenza, the famine and a variety of dreadful conditions, Dr.
Moody wrote to America, "Oh, what a mercy that we are alive and awakened
and trying to serve in the Kingdom of Abha." The secret of Dr. Moody's
noble and self-sacrificing life was the fact that it was built on the solid foundation
of the Word of God. She had a keen spiritual perception, a pure and undefiled
conception of the Baha’i teachings, and a desire to render instant obedience.
She was humble, selfless, and her sense of justice was outstanding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After fifteen years of unique service in Iran, Dr. Moody
returned to America until conditions in Tehran would improve and enable her to
resume her work. Accompanied by Miss Elizabeth H. Stewart she made a visit in
Haifa and there the writer joined them. Dr. Moody was the first of the four
American Baha'i women to go to Iran and survived the longest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Moody, Miss Stewart and the writer arrived in New York
City in January,1921, where the Baha'is had arranged a reception at the Hotel
Waldorf Astoria. Calmly, yet with the dramatic emphasis which always surrounds
one who has actually participated in stirring events, Dr. Moody related her
experiences in Tehran. After this reception she remarked to the writer,
"To return to America and receive such love from the friends, is worth
more than any sacrifice one could make."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That the remarkable work of Dr. Susan I. Moody in Tehran had
made her a public figure in this country was well illustrated by extensive
articles which appeared in the press. While in Oakland, California, she took a
short trip in an aeroplane and the press published her picture with her pilot
and an article in part as follows: "According to Dr. Moody, who contrasts
her entry into Tehran, the capitol of Iran, in a coach and four where she went
to spread the gospel of hygiene to the Muhammadan women, and her exodus in a
"flivver" of doubtful vintage twenty years later, she sees no reason
why aerial transportation should hold any fears for the women of today."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">During her stay in America from January, 1925, to November,
1928, Dr. Moody was interesting friends to help with the work she, together
with the Tehran friends, expected to continue on her return to Iran, the Kappes
Memorial School. She was a member of the Revell household in Philadelphia for
about a year and during that time although she was then past 75 years of age,
yet young in spirit and progressive and active, she studied Esperanto with a
class.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1928, Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Cause,
sent the following instructions to Dr. Moody: "I pray that you may soon in
the company of a capable and devoted American co-worker, resume your historic
labors for our beloved Cause in Tehran." Following this suggestion on
November 17, 1928, Dr. Moody, then 77 years of age, left for Iran, accompanied
by Miss Adelaide Sharp of San Francisco, California, who volunteered her
services at the Tarbiyat School in Tehran. To Dr. Moody's historic career in Tehran
was now to be added the final chapter of complete consecration to Baha’i
service. They conferred with Shoghi Effendi in Haifa en route to Iran.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr. Moody, named by 'Abdu'l-Baha “Amatu'l-A’la” which means
‘the handmaid of the Most High’, wrote of the welcome in Tihran in part as
follows: "The friends came singly, in groups, committees, assemblies, more
than seven hundred the first week, and still we are greeting many new and old
friends, both women and men. Words fail to express the joy of our 'homecoming.'
I wish you might have seen how that love overflowed in gifts, potted vines,
plants, flowers, silver vases, confectionery, sweets of all kinds. Do you
wonder why the two Americans were overwhelmed?"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After her return to Tehran, due to age, her health gradually
weakened but she continually worked for the Kappes Memorial School, and the
friends called on her constantly. At the end of her life when asked for some
statement from her regarding her service to keep for posterity, Dr. Moody said,
"Let it go, let it pass into the Infinite."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shoghi Effendi cabled to America as follows:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Passing dearly beloved Susan Moody deprives Baha’i
world (of the) far-famed pioneer who, through her indomitable spirit, ceaseless
services, earned unique distinction. (She) forged first link in (the) chain
uniting (the) spiritual destinies (of the) cradle of our faith (i.e., Persia)
and (the) community (of its) stalwart defenders in (the) great American
Republic. (I am) instructing Persia rear monument perpetuating memory (of) her
noble mission. (I) am gladly defraying whatever expense incurred as token (of)
my admiration for community (i.e., America) to which she originally belonged
and on which her sacred life shed imperishable lustre. Advise holding befitting
Memorial gathering (in) Temple Foundation Hall."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Her funeral was attended by hundreds of Baha’i friends.
Scores of school girls, with flowers in hand walked in procession through the
city for at least one mile to Gulastin-i-Javid (Perennial Garden), the burying
ground of the Baha'is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Baha’u'llah in one of His Tablets says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"The soul that hath remained faithful to the Cause of
God and stood unwaveringly firm in His path shall, after his ascension, be
possessed of such power that all the worlds which the Almighty hath created can
benefit through him." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(The Baha'i World vol.6 1934-1936)</span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-4311144021074797882024-03-16T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-16T05:00:00.140-04:00circa 1920 -- 'Abdu'l-Baha with Eastern and Western Pilgrims<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-7maRXiTNLriLoTbGQAYg7AGo1wahu-Lse5O_lXStuijsZXvKai_uH-y0U1Vvg0y18iChEipMWOpwrvr1AOPxgiLz6cvWChyphenhyphenvuUNzvB_qTexFsTqgCoDNPxFU99uiZJ1mc4gvdLZ8cltKSS_307mFBi7h4RozoCiWfAiRN5jCiq-W6gDzibumNqaBQwe/s2048/Abdu'l-Baha%20with%20Eastern%20friends%20and%20a%20few%20Western%20pilgrims-a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="2048" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7-7maRXiTNLriLoTbGQAYg7AGo1wahu-Lse5O_lXStuijsZXvKai_uH-y0U1Vvg0y18iChEipMWOpwrvr1AOPxgiLz6cvWChyphenhyphenvuUNzvB_qTexFsTqgCoDNPxFU99uiZJ1mc4gvdLZ8cltKSS_307mFBi7h4RozoCiWfAiRN5jCiq-W6gDzibumNqaBQwe/w443-h288/Abdu'l-Baha%20with%20Eastern%20friends%20and%20a%20few%20Western%20pilgrims-a.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shoghi Effendi is third from front.</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-55542889674914672002024-03-15T05:00:00.002-04:002024-03-15T05:00:00.140-04:00“all the existent beings are in the utmost connection”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In all the world of creation all the existent beings are in
the utmost connection. Through this connection, mutual helpfulness and
co-operation is realized. This mutual helpfulness and co-operation is the
origin of the conservation of the forces of life. If for one instant this
mutual helpfulness and co-operation were cut off from the sources and realities
of things, all the existent beings and things would be thrown into confusion
and chaos and be reduced to nothingness and annihilation. For instance, from
the breath of the animals a watery element, called hydrogen, and carbon is
exhaled and this is the life principle of the vegetable kingdom. From the
vegetable kingdom and the trees, a fiery element, called oxygen, is emitted and
this becomes the cause of the maintenance of the life of the animal kingdom. In
such a manner, mutual helpfulness and co-operation is realized continually
between all the existent beings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Likewise, the greatest inter-relation and communication
exists between the sons of men without which peace, life and existence is
entirely impossible. For a soul independent of all the other soul and without
receiving assistance from other sources cannot live for the twinkling of an
eye: nay, rather, he will become non-existent and reduced to nothingness:
especially among the believers of God between whom material and spiritual
communication is developed up to the highest point of perfection. It is this
real communication, the essential necessity and requirement of which is the
mutual helpfulness, co-operation and confirmation. Without the complete
establishment of this divine principle in the hearts of the friends of God,
nothing can be accomplished, for they are the hyacinths of one garden, the
waves of one sea, the stars of one heaven and the rays of one sun. From every
standpoint the essential unity, the luminous unity, the religious unity and the
material unity are founded and organized between them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- ‘Abdu’l-Baha <span style="font-size: x-small;">(From a
Tablet; Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 4, May 17, 1910)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-38141866043757868222024-03-14T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-14T05:00:00.140-04:00April 26-30, 1919: Unveiling of the Divine Plan for the Northeastern States<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoOTFnjed0u3QdnS4MCqt-GgXqQO3ZA32TJNktBqq_HCGdQDtJGCkbg7m68QkVHdNw6D2g5lyavYrQkpZ8qTLXd9j4c4NJ3OuXbgwySq2gBx_3K97xS-RE9pqHDcN6bMWZBDU98w-2fx2jj66gpMMITmKq5SHdVggLtEjn4gNHzKv1cSwRrjA1f_1nAMx/s1600/Delegates%20and%20Friends%20attending%20eleventh%20annual%20Mashriqu'l-Adhkar%20and%20Baha'i%20Congress%20New%20York%201919-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="1600" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoOTFnjed0u3QdnS4MCqt-GgXqQO3ZA32TJNktBqq_HCGdQDtJGCkbg7m68QkVHdNw6D2g5lyavYrQkpZ8qTLXd9j4c4NJ3OuXbgwySq2gBx_3K97xS-RE9pqHDcN6bMWZBDU98w-2fx2jj66gpMMITmKq5SHdVggLtEjn4gNHzKv1cSwRrjA1f_1nAMx/w651-h181/Delegates%20and%20Friends%20attending%20eleventh%20annual%20Mashriqu'l-Adhkar%20and%20Baha'i%20Congress%20New%20York%201919-1.jpg" width="651" /></a></div>Delegates and friends attending the Eleventh Annual
Mashriqu'l-Adhkar Convention and Baha'i Congress in New York City (Star of the
West, vol.10, no.4, May 17, 1919) The first Tablet of Divine Plan was read at
this gathering.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-88526550960000834812024-03-13T05:00:00.003-04:002024-03-13T05:00:00.135-04:00The “Cause has the spiritual power to re-create us”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh31PDa9Hg3cnFONXsVd8wARt_3zane4v9-kzfqEbZrWsrZwNbSMl32qGU-z1yLDuHv-bDa5v3Gkc6Z801kcjxjezBdcnhM-EhtnELs1cILJpNqFJNuRRhMAnziZ5Nm8lfs-kCMzAxspc_mUcIXMgFn4BTtcYqh5TdCF1TJf3ncDqiYzIJW7dxRiLtKRcc5/s100/lotus-flower-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="100" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh31PDa9Hg3cnFONXsVd8wARt_3zane4v9-kzfqEbZrWsrZwNbSMl32qGU-z1yLDuHv-bDa5v3Gkc6Z801kcjxjezBdcnhM-EhtnELs1cILJpNqFJNuRRhMAnziZ5Nm8lfs-kCMzAxspc_mUcIXMgFn4BTtcYqh5TdCF1TJf3ncDqiYzIJW7dxRiLtKRcc5/s1600/lotus-flower-1.jpg" width="100" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">What every believer, new or old, should realize is that the
Cause has the spiritual power to re-create us if we make the effort to let that
power influence us, and greatest help in this respect is prayer. We must
supplicate Baha’u’llah to assist us to overcome the failings in our own
characters, and also exert our own will-power in mastering ourselves. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Shoghi
Effendi</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(From a letter written on behalf
of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 27 January, 1945; ‘The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Excellence in All Things’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-88248821017779722302024-03-12T06:32:00.008-04:002024-03-12T06:32:50.064-04:00A suggested quote to memorize: Truthfulness<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues. Without
truthfulness progress and success, in all the worlds of God, are impossible for
any soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine
qualities will also be acquired. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- ‘Abdu’l-Baha <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in
‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-23637526930908116182024-03-11T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-11T05:00:00.348-04:00The only known color photograph of ‘Abdu’l-Baha<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IrXE3L6YBFjAeUCcAOF1Bb5R7JUastOIvb1VOBRwFfqSqVlauXh6Ua4SGmwR1AkUZyxEQmx6FN0Qx9agJN9s7zSKFnZ5LkgPLIh3ikhryMM6c925r-tPEy0h5VPBJyE4wPqVuqt4rB35OHpvRR9aZ-bovdqa6ksx6AuumpgJEScLUkQkDPrmE7azXhkg/s1024/Abdu'l-Baha%20-%20original%20color%20photo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="716" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5IrXE3L6YBFjAeUCcAOF1Bb5R7JUastOIvb1VOBRwFfqSqVlauXh6Ua4SGmwR1AkUZyxEQmx6FN0Qx9agJN9s7zSKFnZ5LkgPLIh3ikhryMM6c925r-tPEy0h5VPBJyE4wPqVuqt4rB35OHpvRR9aZ-bovdqa6ksx6AuumpgJEScLUkQkDPrmE7azXhkg/s320/Abdu'l-Baha%20-%20original%20color%20photo.png" width="224" /></a></div>This photograph is
not a copy of a painting nor is it a hand-tinted version of a photograph. It
represents the first edition of a full-color lithograph of the only known color
photograph of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. The announcement regarding the availability of
printed copies appeared in the March 1974 issue of the Baha’i News. The
photograph was taken in Paris in 1911 as part of early experiments in color
photography. The glass negatives were discovered in the early 1970’s by a
Baha’i researcher in the field. A copy negative was prepared and sent to the
Archives in Haifa. The US Baha’i Publishing Trust was able to borrow the
negative to ensure as exact a reproduction as possible of the three colors used
in the original process.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(Adapted from the back cover of Baha’i News, March 1974)</span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-56742373485082863922024-03-10T05:00:00.001-04:002024-03-10T05:00:00.213-04:00Things the Guardian suffered from<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The news of dear Martha Root's death was not unexpected as
the Guardian had been sent the doctor's reports which were pretty hopeless.
These are not the things which burden him. He knew she could not live forever!
Like the Master, a breath of violation or the thought that anyone may be even a
potential violator is, one might say, death to him! I often think it profoundly
organic, the sense that the Center of the Cause has for this most venomous
disease. Hence the importance he attaches to your vigilance in protecting the
Faith and being on the look out - the duty indeed of every Baha'i.
Disobedience, an incorrect attitude towards the fundamentals of the Cause,
failure to push on the teaching and temple work, these are the things he
suffers from and not all the things the friends think he suffers from. He does
not suffer over the deaths of others the way the Master did. He is here to
judge and not to pity. You remember the Master said one bad apple would decay a
whole barrel of good ones? The protection of the Faith is what burns into him!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everyone from the center outwards to the furthest point, has
failed befittingly to heed ‘Abdu’l-Baha's injunction ‘that no dust of
despondency may stain his radiant nature . . .’. I sometimes feel desperate. I
feel if I could only bring to him the living sense of the love of the friends -
why don't they pour their love on him? Don't they realize how alone he is! How
isolated, how heavily burdened?</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Ruhiyyih Khanum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(From a letter to her parents, dated mid-October 1939; ‘The Maxwells of
Montreal, vol. 2’)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-14595035638187005392024-03-09T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-09T05:00:00.197-05:00Marriage – God “established the law of marriage, made it as a fortress for well-being and salvation…”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuu_pazgfu35tnXU6cu6HR1QGUG9BKUMdgFFVn3D_Tmj6pwD3rRmNov-xPIRTj-PJ9Kd3M3VPAbHEWDKzTh9b5qpLWLb5O4T3VdFH2pfy1DVHVKO4qqUEFCpsKR2TiDuploeGVltOY9WEcMQzCeBpwathUpDJ9ehBxIR_dVOimLDDI4OEqQvqKdN8hbFL/s101/0944_2_paintings-134.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="101" data-original-width="61" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuu_pazgfu35tnXU6cu6HR1QGUG9BKUMdgFFVn3D_Tmj6pwD3rRmNov-xPIRTj-PJ9Kd3M3VPAbHEWDKzTh9b5qpLWLb5O4T3VdFH2pfy1DVHVKO4qqUEFCpsKR2TiDuploeGVltOY9WEcMQzCeBpwathUpDJ9ehBxIR_dVOimLDDI4OEqQvqKdN8hbFL/s1600/0944_2_paintings-134.jpg" width="61" /></a></div>He is the Bestower, the Bounteous!<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Praise be to God, the Ancient, the Ever-Abiding, the
Changeless, the Eternal! He Who hath testified in His Own Being that verily He
is the One, the Single, the Untrammelled, the Exalted. We bear witness that
verily there is no God but Him, acknowledging His oneness, confessing His
singleness. He hath ever dwelt in unapproachable heights, in the summits of His
loftiness, sanctified from the mention of aught save Himself, free from the
description of aught but Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And when He desired to manifest grace and beneficence to
men, and to set the world in order, He revealed observances and created laws;
among them He established the law of marriage, made it as a fortress for
well-being and salvation, and enjoined it upon us in that which was sent down
out of the heaven of sanctity in His Most Holy Book. He saith, great is His
glory: "Marry, O people, that from you may appear he who will remember Me
amongst My servants; this is one of My commandments unto you; obey it as an assistance
to yourselves. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Bahá'u'lláh</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘Baha’i
Prayers, US Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1991 edition)</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-66126972815933634492024-03-08T05:00:00.002-05:002024-03-08T05:00:00.244-05:00Baha’u’llah’s last outstanding Tablet<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">We are told by the beloved Guardian that the Epistle to the
Son of the Wolf is "the last outstanding Tablet revealed by the Pen of
Bahá'u'lláh."- (Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shoghi Effendi gave the western believers his fifth and last
book of translations of the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, undertaken during the
winter of 1939-40 … ‘The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’ was Bahá'u'lláh's last
major work and contains a selection from His own Writings made by Himself
(surely a unique occurrence in religious history!) during the last two years of
His life and has therefore a special position of its own in the literature of
our Faith. In a cable shortly prior to its publication Shoghi Effendi said
"Devoutly hope its study may contribute further enlightenment deeper
understanding verities on which effective prosecution teaching administrative
undertakings ultimately depend..." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Ruhiyyih Khanum <span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘The Priceless
Pearl’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-89623217062710310552024-03-07T05:00:00.011-05:002024-03-07T05:00:00.160-05:00October 1936 - First issue of a newsletter 'Baha’i Quarterly' was published by NSA of Australia<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">During
October 1936, the National Assembly [of Australia] published the first issue of
a newsletter entitled Baha’i Quarterly. As affirmed by his secretary, the
Guardian “read it all through with the deepest pleasure and satisfaction.” A
message from Father and Mother Dunn addressed to their spiritual children,
which appeared in this quarterly, contained these remarks:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our appeal to
the Baha'i world would be to follow the call and desire of our beloved Guardian
to read and study the 'Divine Plan' ... It might quicken some . . . to realize
that it was the reading of the 'Divine Plan' that caused Mother and this
servant to give up everything in America and travel to Australia for the
purpose of promoting the Baha'i message on this great continent ... Pioneers
must be strong and ready to face all the hardships that may appear on their
path. These are as naught compared with the delights of loving response and the
confirmation that follow. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">O.Z. Whitehead</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(‘Some Baha’is to Remember’)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-87472120723342566472024-03-06T05:00:00.001-05:002024-03-06T05:00:00.319-05:00“Each one of the friends must teach at least one soul each year”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this day
every believer must concentrate his thoughts on teaching the Faith... O loved
ones of God! Each one of the friends must teach at least one soul each year.
This is everlasting glory. This is eternal grace.” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- 'Abdu’l-Baha <span style="font-size: x-small;">(From a Tablet;
compilation: ‘The Individual and Teaching – Raising the Divine Call’, prepared
by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-46110924579542123172024-03-05T05:00:00.002-05:002024-03-05T05:33:52.671-05:00'Abdu'l-Baha: “Him Whom God hath purposed” (Baha'u'llah)<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXlgDZad_P51DjvqxpicCSyeN7TTMpRQnYg-tOok3etYpMlz9q4A73frk3KFGfhgNFRBo8SCOYdom__1U0pBEjqFktCWkAYgwcwTN2cu7cZTo8FhY8Dt52DhTInHU9M7wK-vmP420u1CuOLi6MFYiHcuVMwdQ8aTWCFMtwmcQ3CFVKKrEcXkpnlCEnjdX/s1024/Abdu'l-Baha%20portrait-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXlgDZad_P51DjvqxpicCSyeN7TTMpRQnYg-tOok3etYpMlz9q4A73frk3KFGfhgNFRBo8SCOYdom__1U0pBEjqFktCWkAYgwcwTN2cu7cZTo8FhY8Dt52DhTInHU9M7wK-vmP420u1CuOLi6MFYiHcuVMwdQ8aTWCFMtwmcQ3CFVKKrEcXkpnlCEnjdX/s320/Abdu'l-Baha%20portrait-1.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584731535535928806.post-59670410364632324062024-03-04T05:00:00.002-05:002024-03-04T05:00:00.133-05:00“God hath purposed to bind hearts together”<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Verily, it is
enjoined upon you to offer a feast, once in every month, though only water be
served; for God hath purposed to bind hearts together, albeit through both
earthly and heavenly means. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Baha'u'llah <span style="font-size: x-small;">('The Kitab-i-Aqdas')</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com