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| ABU3765 | Words to John D. Barry | 390 | Our movement goes back to the young leader who called himself The Gate or The Door, in our language, The Báb… The two never met. But at the age of thirty-two Bahá’u’lláh received a tablet from Báb… The first thing he did was to write an epistle to all the kings of the earth and to the pope and to your President | @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @universal peace; world unity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @banishments of Baha'u'llah, @growth of the Cause, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3764 | Words to John D. Barry | 90 | Society is like the army. There must be degrees. There must be officers and there must be soldiers. | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @agriculture, @maintainance of degrees in society, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3763 | 370 | Every Manifestation is the Adam of His time... There were one hundred thousand Adams before the Adam of biblical records each being the Manifestation of his own time or cycle. | PN_unsorted p087 | @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3762 | 280 | Persian | ایران تاییدات غیبیه میخواهد امیدوارم همان نوعیکه ممالک سائره از ایرانیان | Iran requireth divine confirmations, and I hope that just as other countries [have received these] from the Iranians [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1146 | @past, present and future of Iran, @praise of Eastern values; culture, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @teachings as spirit of the age, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3761 | 280 | Persian | من دعا میکنم و از برای خلق گشایش می طلبم اما خلق خودشان سبب تنگی میشوند مثل | I call out in prayer and seek relief for humanity, yet people themselves become the cause of constriction, like [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1145 | @episodes from the early history of Islam, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3760 | Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23 | 10 | The thirsty one must run after the water; the fountain will not run after those who are thirsty | DAS.1913-04-23 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @condition of search, @effort; striving, @living waters; water of life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3759 | Words spoken on 1913-04-06 to a minister of Stuttgart | 10 | Persian | امّا بامپراطور آلمان منویس زیرا مغرورند و مشغول حالا گوش نمیدهند | Do not write to the emperor; he is proud and preoccupied, and will not take heed at present | BDA2.222 | MHMD2.287 | @personal instructions, @wisdom [hikmat], @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3758 | Words spoken on 1913-03-19 in Paris | 10 | Persian | حال خوب است اسباب مسافرت بکُرات دیگر فراهم کنند | It would now be fitting to prepare the means of travel to other planets! | BDA2.146 | MHMD2.183, BW_v13p1187x | @plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3757 | 20 | Persian | ظهور مولوی وکتاب مثنوی مثل شمعی (ستونی) بودکه به زیرآن دیوارمتمایل نصب شد ودوره دیانت اسلام به ١٢٠٠ سال بالغ گردید | The appearance of Rumi and his book, the Masnavi, was like unto a column erected to buttress a tilting wall, enabling the dispensation of Islam to extend twelve hundred years | KHSH06.024 | @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @Muhammad; Islam | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3756 | Words spoken on 1913-05-31 in Paris | 20 | Persian | در ملکوت الهی زن و مرد یکسانند جمیع باید ندا بافق اعلی نمایند و نشر نفحات اللّٰه کنند | In the Kingdom of God, women and men are one and the same. It is incumbent on everyone to summon humanity to turn towards the Most Exalted Horizon and to spread the sweet savours of God | BDA2.325 | MHMD2.431 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @equality of men and women, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3755 | Words spoken on 1913-05-20 in Paris | 20 | Persian | هیچ حالتی مثل حالت مناجات نیست قلوب صافیه را منجذب نماید و نفوس مقدّسه را انتباه و روحانیّت عجیبی بخشد | There is no state like the state of prayer. It attracts the pure hearts, awakens the holy souls, and confers remarkable spirituality | BDA2.308 | MHMD2.408 | @importance of prayer, @power of prayer, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3754 | Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23 | 20 | Persian | در امر بهآءاللّٰه داخل شوید و بموجب وصایایش عمل کنید چون در امر بهآءاللّٰه کامل گردید | Enter into the Cause of Baha'u'llah and act in accordance with His counsels. When you have attained to the pinnacle | BDA2.254 | MHMD2.330 | @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3753 | Words spoken on 1913-03-12 in Paris | 20 | Persian | در زمان غیبوبت در سلیمانیّه اغلب اوقات شیر میل میفرمودند و نان و شیر برنج فی الحقیقه خوب غذائی است | During Baha'u'llah's seclusion in Sulaymaniyyih, He mostly drank milk and ate bread with rice pudding; this is truly excellent sustenance | BDA2.180 | MHMD2.228 | @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3752 | Words spoken on 1913-02-24 in Paris | 20 | Persian | حکمت و نتیجهٴ اقامت در پاریس برای تذکّر مشرقیان و آگاهی ایرانیان بیش از اهالی خود پاریس است | The wisdom of my sojourn here in Paris, as well as the results it will yield, consist in the admonitions I have imparted to the people of the East | BDA2.157 | MHMD2.197 | @critique of Eastern values; culture, @East and West; communication between East and West, @past, present and future of Iran | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3751 | 20 | Persian | دین و علم دو دائره است که به مرکز واحد سیر میکنند و ان مرکز حقیقت است | Religion and science are as two concentric circles that revolve around one common point, which is reality | AVK2.129.13x, VUJUD.123.18 | VUJUDE.164 | @harmony of science and religion | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3750 | Words spoken on 1913-06-23 in Port Said | 30 | Persian | افکار مال و منال و آمال جاه و جلال صرف اوهام است خدا محض عمران دنیا این اوهام را در سرها انداخته | Thoughts of wealth and riches, as well as hopes of rank and glory, are sheer illusion. God has cast these thoughts into our minds only so that this world might prosper; apart from this, they are of no importance | BDA2.360 | MHMD2.479-480 | @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @purpose; goal of creation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3749 | Words spoken on board the Himalaya at sea, 1913-06-15 | 30 | Persian | چنین تعالیممایحتاج عالم انسانی در این عصر نورانیست زیرا این عصر عصر تقالید نیست عصر انوار است | These teachings are what the world needs in this luminous age, for this is not an age of blind imitation; it is the age of light, and the century in which mysteries will be made manifest | BDA2.351 | MHMD2.466-467 | @universal peace; world unity, @blind imitation [taqlid], @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @teachings as spirit of the age, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3748 | Words spoken on board the Himalaya at sea, 1913-06-13 | 30 | Persian | چه قدر فقیرند و چگونه زحمت میکشند رؤسای اداره‌ها و کارخانه‌جات باید بجهت مزدوران در کمپانیها | How poor are they [labourers on ship], and how hard they toil! The presidents of factories and other operations must allocate a share [of the profits] for the workers in their companies | BDA2.349 | MHMD2.464 | @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @wealth inequality and its moderation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3747 | Words spoken on 1913-05-29 in Paris | 30 | Persian | اگر آنگونه موشکافیها در مسائل مهمّه می‌نمودند چه قدر نتائج داشت | How great the results that would have appeared if these people [who were well-versed in Islamic jurisprudence and doctrine] had practised that kind of hair-splitting on matters of actual importance! | BDA2.322 | MHMD2.427 | @empty learning; false spirituality, @Islamic laws and jurisprudence | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3746 | Words spoken on 1913-04-28 in Stuttgart | 30 | Persian | هر چیزی ممکن است ولکن حضرت مسیح از بیان اشعیا میفرماید که اینها چشم دارند امّا نمی‌بینند گوش دارند ولی نمیشنوند | Anything is possible, but Jesus Christ, quoting the words of Isaiah, has said, 'They have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear | BDA2.269 | MHMD2.352 | @miracles and their interpretation, @Christ; Christianity, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3745 | Words spoken on 1913-04-25 in Stuttgart | 30 | Persian | بموجب تعالیم بهآءاللّٰه عمل کنید بسیاری تعالیم الٓهیّه را میخوانند امّا در موقع فراموش مینمایند | Act in accordance with the teachings of Baha'u'llah. Many are the people who peruse the divine teachings, but promptly forget what they have read when the time comes to act | BDA2.258 | MHMD2.336 | @words vs deeds, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3744 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14 | 30 | Persian | دیشب رئیس مجلس گفت حضرت بهآءاللّٰه اعظم مظاهر الهیّه است و ذکر عظمت امر اللّٰه را نمود | The president of last night's gathering stated that Baha'u'llah was the greatest of God's Manfiestations… Yet, the inhabitants of Paris do not share the spirituality and zeal of the Americans, who are truly something else | BDA2.138 | MHMD2.171 | @praise of Western values; culture, @Baha'u'llah | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3743 | Words spoken on 1912-12-27 in London | 30 | Persian | من آمده‌ام تا مدنیّت الهیّه را ترویج نمایم مدنیّتیکه حضرت بهٓاءاللّٰه در شرق تأسیس فرمود | I have come to promote divine civilization. This is a civilization that Baha'u'llah established in the East. It is a civilization that tends to the domain of character | BDA2.044 | MHMD2.053 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3742 | Words directed at Mirza Muhammad 'Ali | 30 | unknown | نه تو آن عمر هستی که امر باین عظمت را بلند کنی و نه من آن علی هستم که از دست تو در نخلستان گریه کنم | Inform my brother that I am not `Alí, nor is he `Umar. I am much greater than `Alí and he is much lesser than `Umar. | KNSA.134 (235) | MNYA.180, AFNAN.083, RKS.038 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3741 | Words spoken on 1913-05-03 in Paris | 40 | Persian | اگر چنین است این اقتدار اعظم است زیرا ایمان اغنیا و بزرگان مشکل تر است از ایمان فقرا کار مشکل نمودن | If this is indeed the case, then it is an evidence of supreme power, as it is more difficult for the wealthy and noble to profess religious belief than it is for the poor to do this | BDA2.282 | MHMD2.371 | @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3740 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14 | 40 | Persian | هر چند این جرائد اگر بیغرضانه بنویسند سبب آگاهی نفوس است ولی ما مقالاتی در جرائد ملکوت نوشتیم | Though these newspapers will, if written impartially, inform the people, yet we have written articles in the newspapers of the Kingdom | BDA2.139 | MHMD2.172 | @newspapers and the media; publications, @call to action, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3739 | Words spoken on 1913-01-22 in London | 40 | Persian | بنویسید این الواح مبارکه را بخوانند و نشر دهند سابق مسلمین در تفسیر آلم غلبت الرّوم | Instruct the friends to read and disseminate these Tablets. How impressive are the commentaries which the Muslims of former times wrote concerning these verses: 'The Romans have been defeated…' | BDA2.101 | MHMD2.123 | @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3738 | Words spoken on 1913-01-12 in London | 40 | Persian | ضرب برای حیوان هم جائز نه حُسن تربیت حیوان را در تحت تعلیم | It is not permissible even to strike an animal. When an animal is trained properly, it becomes domesticated | BDA2.080 | MHMD2.096 | @kindness to and rights of animals, @education of children; moral education, @spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3737 | Words spoken on 1912-12-20 in London | 40 | Persian | چون از نصیحت بهموطنان نتیجهئ‌ی ندیدیم و گوش شنوائی نجستیم لابد توجّه بغرب نمودیم | Since we discerned no fruit from the counsel we gave our countrymen, nor could we find a hearing ear among them, we felt it necessary to turn our attention to the West | BDA2.032 | MHMD2.038 | @past, present and future of Iran, @call to action, @East and West; communication between East and West | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3736 | Words spoken on 1912-12-14 in Liverpool | 40 | Persian | اساس اینها بر هرج و مرجست از این عمل رئیس اعمال باقی را بفهمید | The foundation of these [Azalis] is chaos and confusion. From this act which their very leader committed, one can discern the conduct of the others in their ranks | BDA2.022-023 | MHMD2.026 | @East and West; communication between East and West, @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3735 | 40 | Persian | اوقات خودت را با خدا تقسیم کن نصف روز را در تلاش معاش و تامین زندگی مادی و شئون ظاهری صرف کن | Share your time with God. Spend half of the day in search of livelihood, guaranteeing your material life and dignified appearance, and dedicate the other half in the acquisition of moral virtues and service at the threshold of God | AHB.133BE #339 p.83 | BLO_PT#219 | @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @work as worship, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3734 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-08 | 40 | Persian | چهار هزار و ششصد قدم راه رفتم بطول راه عکّل تا روضهٴ مبارکه میخواهم مشق راه رفتن کنم | I have taken 4,600 steps. This is the distance between the city of 'Akka and the Shrine of Baha'u'llah. I wish to practise walking | BDA2.013 | MHMD2.015 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3733 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-07 | 80 | Persian | من سر میز خواهم آمد ولی چند روز میخواهم قناعت داشته باشم والّا شرقیها تحکّمی ندارد | Since the people of the East have not treated the attendants of this ship well... I shall come to the table… It is possible that the Europeans believe themselves to be superior to us, but we consider all people the servants of God and regard all humanity the same way | BDA2.012 | MHMD2.014 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3732 | Words spoken on 1913-06-01 in Paris | 50 | Persian | اینگونه عشق از کمال عقل حاصِل گردد لذا هر قدر بنیان و اساس عقل و معرفت متین‌تر باشد | This kind of love is the fruit of consummate reason, for the firmer the foundation of reason and knowledge, the greater the heights that the lofty palace of love will reach | BDA2.328 | MHMD2.435 | @power of love | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3731 | Words spoken on 1913-05-22 in Paris | 50 | Persian | از هر قبیل هستند نفوسی بهآئی خالصند که مؤمن بجمیع ادیان و موقن بحقیقت اسلامند کسانی هستند | They [the American Baha'is] are people of every stripe. There are those pure Baha'is who believe in all the divine religions and subscribe to the truth of Islam | BDA2.312 | MHMD2.413 | @diversity of thought and belief, @Muhammad; Islam | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3730 | Words spoken on 1913-05-13 in Paris | 50 | Persian | یک اجتماعی در بالای کُوه نمودند و در قبول بلایا و ترک راحت و نشر هدایت همعهد شدند | They [the apostles] gathered on top of a mountain, and made a pact whereby they would consent to bear tribulations | BDA2.298 | MHMD2.394 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3729 | Words spoken on 1912-12-15 in Liverpool | 50 | Persian | این خوب است که آزادی عمومی دارد و سبب الفت هر فرقه و ملّتی است زیرا هر امر عمومی الهی است و هر امر خصوصی | It is good that this church is open to everyone, and is the cause of fellowship among every sect and creed, inasmuch as whatever is universal is of God, and that which is particular is of humanity | BDA2.024 | MHMD2.028 | @unity in diversity, @universality of the Cause, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3728 | Words spoken on 1912-12-14 in Liverpool | 50 | Persian | بعد ازین سفر در ممالک عثمانی باید ندای وحدت عالم انسانی و صلح عمومی بلند شود و نوبت آنحُدود خواهد رسید | After this journey, the call of the unity of humanity and universal peace must be upraised in the Ottoman territories. Their turn shall come | BDA2.022 | MHMD2.026 | @universal peace; world unity, @predictions and prophecies, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3727 | Words spoken in Ramleh, 1913 | 60 | Persian | بعد از انقلاب تا حال مکرّر اهل ایران بانتخاب نفوس و تشکیل دارالشّری پرداخته‌اند | Following the revolution up to the present time, the people of Persia have made repeated attempts to elect people and form consultative assemblies, but the efforts have borne no fruit | BDA2.370 | MHMD2.494-495 | @non-participation in politics, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3726 | Words spoken on 1913-06-02 in Paris | 60 | Persian | حفظ امر اللّٰه و وحدت اهل بها منوط بثبوت بر عهد اللّٰه است و آثار قلم میثاق مبیّن آیات | The protection of the Cause of God and the unity of the people of Baha are dependent on firmness in the Covenant of God and adherence | BDA2.329-330 | MHMD2.437 | @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @chastisement and requital, @firmness in the Covenant | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3725 | Words spoken on 1913-01-30 in Paris | 60 | Persian | قبل از تسلّط و نفوذ اروپائیها حتّی بسلطان عبدالحمید نوشتم که چنین خواهد شد | At a time when the Europeans did not yet enjoy this ascendancy and influence, I had written to 'Abdu'l-Hamid, indicating to him what would come to pass | BDA2.113-114 | MHMD2.140 | @constitutional revolution in Iran, @past, present and future of Iran, @relationship between government and people, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3724 | Words spoken on 1912-12-25 in London | 60 | Persian | دیروز نظر بخواهش مدیر جریدهٴ کرسچن کامن ولت من برای آن روزنامه چیزی نوشتم که بسبب منازعهٴ | Yesterday, the editor-in-chief of the Christian Commonwealth requested that I write something for publication in his newspaper | BDA2.041 | MHMD2.048-049 | @Satan; the Evil One, @contention and conflict, @Adam; Adam and Eve | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3723 | Words spoken on 1912-12-19 in London | 60 | Persian | باید نساء در تربیت خود و تحصیل کمالات بکوشند بتربیت احقاق حقوق خویش نمایند | Women must educate themselves and strive to acquire virtues. Moreover, they must win their rights through education | BDA2.030 | MHMD2.035 | @role and station of women, @wisdom [hikmat], @equality of men and women | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3722 | Words to Mr Schweizer, spoken on 1913-04-29 in Stuttgart | 60 | other/unknown lang | من او را خیلی دوست میدارم این شخص بجهت اینکه در خدمت امر اللّٰه آزاد باشد تأهل ننمود | I love him [Mirza Abu'l-Fadl] very much. In order to leave himself free to serve the Cause of God, he has not married | BDA2.270 | MHMD2.354 | @praise and encouragement, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3721 | Words to Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan in 1896-1897 | 60 | Recently, a Commission of Inquiry has arrived from Istanbul. Each day, I go to the government office and they interrogate Me | AFNAN.077 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3720 | Words spoken on 1913-06-09 in Paris | 70 | Persian | چون توجّه بملکوت ابهی نمائید و بر خدمت امراللّٰه بر خیزید هر روز تأییدی جدید یابید | When you turn towards the Abha Kingdom and arise to serve the Cause of God, you will be granted a fresh confirmation day after day | BDA2.343 | MHMD2.455-456 | @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3719 | Words spoken on 1913-06-08 in Paris | 70 | Persian | خدا معین و حافظ ایتام است چه بسیار اطفال اغنیا که در دنیا آواره شدند | God is the sustainer and the protector of the orphans. How many are the children of the wealthy who went on to wander this world as lost souls | BDA2.342 | MHMD2.454 | @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @fulfillment of true potential, @spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3718 | Words to Mr Schweizer, spoken on 1913-04-29 in Stuttgart | 70 | Persian | من در تو استعدادی می‌بینم که اگر قیام بر تبلیغ امر کنی چنان تأییدی یابی | In you I see such ability that if you should arise to teach the Cause… The Revelation of Baha'u'llah is for action; peruse The Hidden Words and see what He has said therein | BDA2.270 | MHMD2.353-354 | @words vs deeds, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3717 | Words spoken on 1913-04-13 in Budapest | 70 | Persian | عدم احساس و وجدان عالم مادون اگر دلیل بر وجود عالم مافوق باشد نزدیک حیوان جمیع مراتب عقول | If the inability of a thing which occupies a lower rank of existence to perceive that which occupies a higher rank was itself indicative of the [non-]existence of that higher rank | BDA2.237 | MHMD2.307 | @limits of the intellect, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @man's distinction from the animal | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3716 | Words spoken in the pilgrim house | 80 | Persian | خیلی عجیب است این امر از کجا بود و بکجا رسید شیراز کجا طهران کجا بغداد کجا رومیبی کجا عکّا و حیفا کجا | One will find it most strange when he reflects on where this Cause once was and where it has now reached. Consider the cities of Shiraz and Tehran | BDA2.369 | MHMD2.493 | @prophecy and fulfillment, @growth of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3715 | Words to Ms Richard and others, spoken on 1913-05-12 in Paris | 80 | Persian | قوّهٴ روح القدس هر ضعیفی را قوی نماید به‌بینید قوم ذلیل اسرائیل را چگونه عزیز نمود ماهیگیر را شهیر آفاق کرد | The power of the Holy Spirit makes every weak one strong. Observe how it exalted the abased people of Israel! | BDA2.297-298 | MHMD2.393 | @call to action, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3714 | Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23 | 80 | Persian | من میخواهم شما کرهٴ نار شوید و از هر قیدی آزاد این امر بهآئی چشمهٴ ایّوبی است | I wish for you all to become balls of fire, freed from every chain and fetter. This Baha'I Cause is a fountain of healing that purges people of every defilement | BDA2.254 | MHMD2.330 | @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3713 | Words spoken on 1913-04-03 in Stuttgart | 80 | Persian | چه اطفال نازنینی هستند از خدا میخواهم این اطفال را مبارک فرماید برکتی از آسمان بر ایشان نازل | What precious children these are! I beseech God to send down from the heavens a blessing on these children | BDA2.215 | MHMD2.277-278 | @praise and encouragement, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3712 | Words to a group of Persian students, spoken on 1913-02-19 | 80 | Persian | محصّلین مشهور سابقین که کاری از پیش نبردند بلکه انشآءاللّٰه شما خدمتی بایران نمائید | The well-known Persian students of the past were unable to bring about any advancements in their native land | BDA2.147 | MHMD2.184 | @status of kings; future of monarchy, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @education of children; moral education, @excellence; distinction | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3711 | Words spoken on 1913-02-07 in Paris | 80 | Persian | علم حقوق قدیم است مادام خدا بوده خلق بوده مادام خلق بوده علم حقوق هم بوده | The concept of law is ancient. Just as God and His creation have always co-existed, so too have humankind and law | BDA2.125 | MHMD2.156 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @justice and mercy, @reward and punishment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3710 | Words spoken on 1912-12-27 in London | 80 | Persian | هر چه بطرفین نصیحت شد و راه صواب نموده و بمداخلهٴ همسایه‌ها انذار گشت | Though admonitions were given to both sides, though the right path was shown to them, and though they were warned about meddling from their neighbours | BDA2.045 | MHMD2.054 | @constitutional revolution in Iran, @growth of the Cause, @wisdom [hikmat], @non-participation in politics | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3709 | Words spoken on 1913-06-11 in Paris | 90 | Persian | وظیفهٴ دیانت دیگر است و وظیفهٴ ماموریّت و عضویّت دیگر البتّه باید وزیر یا سرباز بادآء | The responsibility of religion is one thing, while the responsibilities entailed by one's obligation to and membership in that office is another | BDA2.346 | MHMD2.459-460 | @obedience to and respect for government authority, @past, present and future of Iran | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3708 | Words spoken in Vienna on 1913-04-19 | 90 | Persian | محبّت شما سبب آمدن من باینجا شد من برای دیدن شما آمدم نه برای سیر و سیاحت | Your love is the reason I have come here. I have come to see you, not to go on leisurely excursions | BDA2.246 | MHMD2.320 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @being a source of light; guidance, @unity of thought and belief, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3707 | Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-02 | 90 | Persian | من دیشب خیلی مسرُور بودم زیرا میدیدم در قلوب شما نار محبّت اللّٰه شعلهور است و نفثات روح القدس | I was very happy last night because I saw that your hearts are ablaze with the fire of the love of God… Those in attendance were baptized with the divine spirit and the fire of the love of God | BDA2.212-213 | MHMD2.274 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @love of God, @spiritual baptism, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3706 | Words spoken on 1912-12-15 in Liverpool | 90 | Persian | از روز حرکت از حیفا تا حال هر روزی تأییدات ملکوت بیشتر احاطه نمود | From the day I left Haifa to the present time, the confirmations of the Kingdom have encompassed me more and more with every passing day | BDA2.023-024 | MHMD2.027 | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @critique of Western values; culture, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3705 | 90 | The good news that I had promised is this: the sacred remains of the Exalted Báb have safely left the soil of Iran and just arrived in the Ottoman land. They are now completely out of danger | AFNAN.135-136 | @sacred remains; burial of the Bab, @prophecy and fulfillment, @poems and quotation from poetry | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3704 | Words spoken on 1913-03-04 in Paris | 100 | Persian | در ظهورات سابقه اینگونه اشخاص خود را مستغنی از تعالیم روحانی می‌گفتند و اصحاب یوم ظهور | In previous dispensations, such people felt that they had no need for spiritual teachings | BDA2.165-166 | MHMD2.208-209 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3703 | Words spoken on 1913-01-31 in Paris | 100 | Persian | وقتیکه صدر اعظم بقم رفت و غلما را بعزّت و ناز وارد طهران نمود | When the Prime Minister of Persia went to Qum, and thence conducted certain divines to Tehran while lavishing them with reverence | BDA2.114 | MHMD2.141 | @predictions and prophecies, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3702 | 100 | Many people come here in a gala journey. They stop at the best hotels. They come here when they have nothing to fear, they travel in a company of friends and are a gay crowd! | SW_v24#04 p.104 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3701 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-11 | 100 | Persian | دیشب در خیال فلاسفه بودم که این نفوس چه قدر غافلند با وجود آنکه خطایای فلاسفهٴ سابقین | My mind was preoccupied last night with the materialist philosophers, and how oblivious they are | BDA2.017 | MHMD2.020 | @ether; the phenomenon of light, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @limits of the intellect | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3700 | 100 | One day in Baghdad, very early in the morning, Mullá Baqir, one of the Letters of the Living, attained the presence of Bahá’u’lláh. He asked him, “What were you doing last evening?” “I was reading the Ahsanu’l-Qisas,” he replied | AFNAN.130 | @stories; anecdotes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @Letters of the Living | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3699 | Words spoken on 1913-04-17 in Budapest | 110 | Persian | چه مؤمنهٴ مقدّسهئ‌ی است همیشه بخدمت و تبلیغ امر مشغول است شوهرش با آنکه بهائی نیست | What a devoted and blessed woman! She [Aseyeh Allen] is always engaged in serving and teaching the Cause | BDA2.243-243 | MHMD2.314-315 | @laws of marriage and dowry, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3698 | Words spoken on 1913-04-10 in Budapest | 110 | Persian | با این همه آگاهی و صلح جوئی که در این عصر مُبین ظهور انسان کاملی را لازم می‌شمرند | In spite of all their awareness, and notwithstanding their quest for peace--knowing as they do that a Perfect Man is needed in this perspicuous age | BDA2.228 | MHMD2.295 | @Theosophy, @station of the Manifestation of God, @innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3697 | Words spoken on 1913-03-12 in Paris | 110 | Persian | سبب نفرت آنها از دیانت و روحانیّت مداخله کشیشهای کاتولیک در امور سیاسی بود که چون مخالفت مشروطیّت | Their [the people of Paris'] contempt for religion and spirituality stems from the meddling of the Catholic clergy in political affairs | BDA2.179 | MHMD2.226-227 | @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @blind imitation [taqlid], @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @priestcraft | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3696 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-11 | 110 | Persian | چه می‌گوئید که من یکمرتبه وارد مسجد شاه طهران شوم و بمعاندین بگویم شما مرا جستجو | What would you say if I were to suddenly enter the Masjid Shah in Tehran, and say to the enemies of the Faith | BDA2.016-017 | MHMD2.019 | @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3695 | Words to two Theosophists spoken on 1913-04-23 | 120 | Persian | در ملکوت بهآء اللّٰه داخل شوید تا از هر جهت مؤیّد گردید در ایران نسآئی هستند | Enter into the Kingdom of Baha'u'llah, that you may be aided in every respect. In Persia, there are women who are entirely bereft of wealth | BDA2.253 | DAS.1913-04-23, MHMD2.329 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3694 | Words spoken on 1913-04-05 in Stuttgart | 120 | There is no monasticism in this Cause, but a person who wishes to devote his time exclusively to teaching the Cause of God | BDA2.219 | MHMD2.283 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @monasticism; asceticism, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3693 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20 | 120 | Persian | دیشب من ابداً شام میل نکردم و شب هیچ نخوابیدم تا نزدیک صبح چیز می‌نوشتم | I did not have any dinner whatsoever last night, nor did I sleep at all. I was engaged in writing until morning approached | BDA2.148-149 | MHMD2.186 | @composure; tranquillity; serenity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3692 | Words spoken on 1913-02-11 in Paris | 130 | Persian | با وجود آنکه یهودیان معاهده نموده بودند با حضرت که دست از پا خطا نکنند | Notwithstanding that the Jews had made a pact with Muhammad, a pact which guaranteed the protection of the Jews | BDA2.130-131 | MHMD2.163-164 | @episodes from the early history of Islam | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3691 | Words spoken on 1913-01-27 in Paris | 130 | Persian | چون شب از قیل و قال و آشوب و صدا آسوده بودند و فراغت بال داشتند هر شبی در محلّی مجتمع می‌شدند | Nighttime afforded these ministers peace of mind, as they would be undisturbed by the chattering and clamouring of the people | BDA2.108 | MHMD2.132-133 | @consultation, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3690 | 130 | I had a dream and you must interpret it for me…. Last night the Ancient Beauty appeared in my dream and said, ‘I have guests that have never been here before. I want you to receive them most befittingly.’ | AFNAN.147 | @interpretation of dreams and visions, @prophecy and fulfillment, @growth of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3689 | 150 | The letters that come from the German believers bring me the greatest joy, for the suffocating air of the violation of God's Covenant has not entered their land. | BBBD.361-362 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @predictions and prophecies, @praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3688 | Words spoken on 1913-02-18 in Paris | 150 | Persian | تربیت و مدنیّت مادی سبب تحسین اخلاق عموم نشود و مانند تعالیم انبیا و مدنیّت روحانی | Material education and civilization will not improve the character of humanity. Unlike the teachings of the prophets | BDA2.145-146 | MHMD2.181-182 | @religion as source; stimulus of knowledge and science, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @Muhammad; Islam, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3687 | Words to Marie Watson et al | 150 | You must be like these swift-moving, luminous clouds. They move, nothing hinders them. I shall pray for you that you will be like these clouds. | BLO_PN#060 | @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @love and unity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3686 | Words spoken in 1913 in Ramleh | 160 | Persian | وقتی در یکی از مجالس مهمّهٴ اسکندریّه بودم شخصی از وطن خواهان بستایش و حمایت وطن خود | When I was present at an important gathering in Alexandria, a certain patriot arose to voice his praise and support for his country. He recited a poem and then | BDA2.366 | MHMD2.488 | @nationalism; love of country, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3685 | Words spoken on 1913-03-18 in Paris | 160 | Persian | چون خبر صحّت میرزا ابوالفضل آمده من خیلی مسرورم واقعاً من راضیم که خود بیمار شوم | I am delighted to hear that Mirza Abu'l-Fadl is in good health. I would, in truth, be content to fall sick | BDA2.186-187 | MHMD2.237 | @stories; anecdotes, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @non-participation in politics | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3684 | 160 | At dawn, with wondrous and melodious voices, they will be engaged in the mention of God. Ships carrying the flag of “Yá Bahá’u’l-Abhá!” will anchor at the port [of Haifa] and kings will disembark | RKS.067 | @future of Haifa; of the Holy Land, @Shrines and Holy places, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3683 | 170 | "There are many kinds of martyrdom. How many times have I prayed for it… So Christ never suffered upon the cross | SW_v24#04 p.105 | @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3682 | 180 | unknown | یک روز میرزا ضیاءالله پیش من آمد، دیدم بانگشتهای رنگین خود نگاه میکند و منتظر است من بپرسم چه شده است؟ | One day, Mírza Diya’u’llah came to see me. I noticed he was looking at his fingers, which were stained with ink, expecting Me to comment on them. I did not say anything | KNSA.052-053 | MNYA.039, AFNAN.077 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3681 | 190 | How many of the prophets longed to be here in these days of God. Many Germans left their homeland and settled here on this mountain, where they awaited the arrival of the Promised One | BBBD.367 | @Mount Carmel, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @prophecy and fulfillment, @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @rejection of Muhammad, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3680 | Words spoken on 1913-01-19 in London | 210 | Persian | اگر انسان بتواند در غذا به نباتات قناعت کند بهتر است زیرا خوراک انسان نباتست | If one can content oneself with vegetables for one's sustenance, this would be preferable, for the food of humanity consists in vegetables | BDA2.094-095 | MHMD2.114-115 | @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @unity in diversity, @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @literal interpretation, @kindness to and rights of animals | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3679 | 210 | It had been my earnest wish for you to stay in this region and to see to affairs related to the Holy Land. In particular, now that I am busy with the construction of the Shrine of the Báb | AFNAN.154 | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @sacred remains; burial of the Bab, @growth of the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3678 | 220 | The religion of God has now been proclaimed in Germany. When the divine seed takes root in the soil, they will automatically spread and other roots appear and extend | - | - | ||||||||||||||
| ABU3677 | 220 | Recently Siyyid Jamalu’d-Din [al-Afghani] has announced that the Bahá’í Faith intends to destroy the foundation of the world and aims at obliterating all religions | AFNAN.157-158 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3676 | 230 | This pearl rosary and a ruby ring originally belonged to Mírzá Musa Jawahiri, the son of Mírzá Hadi, and were both in that box | AFNAN.213-214 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @business; financial; property matters, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3675 | Words spoken on 1913-03-01 in Paris | 240 | Persian | چون بتاریخ ملّت و حکومت فرانسه نظر شود مبرهن گردد که علّت بیدینی نفوس و بیزاری این دولت و ملّت | When we consider the history of the people and government of France, it becomes clear that the reason for their irreligion | BDA2.162-163 | MHMD2.204-205 | @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @priestcraft, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @blind imitation [taqlid] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3674 | 250 | Today, this man [Mírzá Muhammad-`Alí] has done such a deed and written in such wise that Mutisarrif Pasha wanted to use his statement as evidence to uproot Us completely. He has written | AFNAN.215-216 | @law of inheritance, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3673 | 260 | These honored persons have sent a report to the Commission of Inquiry, which has resulted in the Commission’s head moving with a vengeance to eradicate the Cause of God | AFNAN.082-083 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Ottoman commissions of investigation | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3672 | Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23 | 300 | Persian | باروپا آمدیم دیدیم بعضی از اهل ایران یعنی چند نفر غیر مهم که ابداً در بند دیانت | We came to Europe and found that some Persians -- individuals of no significance who are entirely unconcerned with religion | BDA2.254-255 | MHMD2.330-331 | @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @past, present and future of Iran, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3671 | Words spoken on 1913-03-16 in Paris | 300 | Persian | اهالی امریکا سیر گرسنهٴ‌اند بالعکس ایرانیها گرسنهٴ سیرند که در حال گرسنگی و احتیاج خود | The Americans are a satiated people who hunger--this in contrast to the Persians… The East has always been able, through the aid of a spiritual power, to withstand the West… In one of the cities between Canada and California, a certain cardinal… Ka'bu'l-Abhar was an Israelite who lived in the time of Mu'aviyyih | BDA2.184-185 | MHMD2.233-234 | @the Christian clergy, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Christ; Christianity, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @critique of Western values; culture | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3670 | Words of Abdu'l-Baha in 1919 | 310 | Verily it is so. They are now in Paradise. The German friends are pure, their hearts are overflowing with love, their whole beings are filled with the Cause of God | BBBD.473-474 | @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @East and West; communication between East and West, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3669 | 310 | During the time that His Holiness the Exalted One lived in Bushihr and was in the trading business, a few merchants bought some Prussian blue dye from His blessed Person | AFNAN.129-130 | @business; financial; property matters, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3668 | Words spoken on 1913-01-19 in London | 340 | Persian | از بعد لابد نفوسی بمخالفت قیام خواهند کرد و رسائل و مقالاتی در رّدامر خواهند نوشت | In the future, people will inevitably arise to oppose the Cause and write treatises against it. But what fruit will these efforts bear | BDA2.092-093, NSS.236ax | MHMD2.112-113 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3667 | 450 | Today the dynamic energy of the Holy Spirit has poured in such volume through the Messenger of God that even the masses of men have received it… The labour saving machines were given to create leisure for all mankind | SW_v24#04 p.106 | @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @The Holy Spirit, @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing, @universal education | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3666 | 490 | Persian | دو مسئله است یکی عصمت کبری و یکی مسئله علم باری جمیع اینها بر دو قسم است | Two matters there are: one being the Most Great Infallibility, and the other being the question of divine knowledge. All these are divided into two parts [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0730 | @House of Justice, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @education of children; moral education, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3665 | Words spoken on 1913-06-23 in Port Said | 550 | Persian | در زمانیکه حکومت مستبد ناقضین مانع اشکالات داخلی و خارجی حاضر در بحبوحه | At a time when the government ruled with tyranny, the Covenant-breakers were a hindrance, and problems both internal and external were present—it was in the midst of all this turmoil that I built the Shrine of the Bab | BRL_DAK#0772 | ADMS#256 | @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @the Christian clergy, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3664 | Words to a reporter, spoken ca. 1912-10-19 | 160 | Proud of him [Omar Khayyam]? Would you be proud of that man who had led your children into evil ways? Would you be proud of a drunkard | - | - | |||||||||||||
| ABU3663 | Words spoken on 1913-05-13 | 10 | Persian | اگر قائم مقام بود ایران را احیاء مینمود | if the Qa’im-Maqam were still with us, the whole of Persia would be revived. | SFI18.275, BDA2.299a | MHMD2.395, LOIR20.171 | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3662 | Words spoken on 1919-12-29 | 20 | Persian | در بغداد از اطاقی که مشرف به رودخانه دجله بود و در وقت نزول چهره مبارک برافروخته بود | In Baghdad, in a room overlooking the Tigris River. At the time of its revelation, the Blessed Countenance [of Baha'u'llah] was most excited. | ISA.001 | ISAE.1919-12-29 | @banishment to; life in Baghdad | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3661 | Words spoken on 1919-12-18 | 60 | Persian | بلی این لوح در اواخر ایام جمال مبارک نازل شد موقعی به ابن ذئب رسید به صعود واقع شده بود | Yes. It was revealed during the latter days of the Blessed Beauty. When it reached the Son of the Wolf, the Ascension [of Baha'u'llah] had taken place | ISA.001 | ISAE.1919-12-18 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3660 | Words spoken on 1915-12-25 | 60 | Persian | سر التنکیس این عبارت از خود شیخ مرحوم است و دو معنی دارد | The Secret of Inversion is this utterance from the departed Sheikh himself, and it possesseth twofold meaning [3.5s] | NSS.160b | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3659 | Words spoken on 1919-12-30 | 70 | Persian | وقتی به امریکا رفتم ضعفم به درجه ای بود که صدایم تا چند درعی نمیرسید ناچار در مجالس چهار پنج هزار | When I went to America, My fatigue was of such a degree that My voice could not reach more than a few meters. Of necessity, in gatherings of four or five thousands souls | ISA.002 | ISAE.1919-12-30 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power of prayer | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3658 | Words spoken on 1920-01-01 | 70 | Persian | حل این مسئله آسان است کلام بر سه قسم است یکی لفظی که عبارت از تموج هواست که صماخ گوش را | The solution to this issue is simple. Kalam [the Word] appears in three types. One is oral, which is composed of airwaves, impacts the orifice of the ear and is made and assembled of letters | ISA.013 | ISAE.1920-01-01 | @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @knowledge; recognition of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3657 | Words spoken on 1919-12-30 | 90 | Persian | رسمیت در یک مملکت بخصوص که بهائیان در آن جمع شوند نمی شود در هر جا | Recognition will not occur in a specific country where the Baha'ís should gather. In every land, the friends will progress and the Cause of God will be recognized without warfare or conflict. Christianity in France was emancipated in this manner. | ISA.002-003 | ISAE.1919-12-30 | @Christ; Christianity, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @growth of the Cause, @early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3656 | Words spoken on 1919-12-30 | 90 | Persian | بلی زیرا بموجب دستور مبارک عمل نکرده اند در مجمع اتفاق ملل فقط چند دولت | Yes, since they have disobeyed the blessed instructions [of Baha'u'llah]. Only a few countries have representatives in the League of Nations, whereas the representatives must be appointed and ratified by the nation | ISA.012 | ISAE.1919-12-30 | @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @power of faith; power of the spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3655 | Words spoken on 1919-08-15 | 90 | Persian | حاجی کریم خان ردیه بر امر نوشت و برداشت رفت به طهران که تقدیم شاه کند و خلعت و انعام گیرد | Hajji Karim Khan penned a refutation of the Cause and, having composed it, departed for Tehran that he might present it unto the Shah and receive robes of honor and rewards [3.5s] | NSS.236b | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3654 | Words spoken on 1920-01-04 | 110 | Persian | حیفا بدرجه ای ترقی کند که این کوه یکپارچه نور شود از اینجا تا عکا | Haifa will develop to such a degree that this mountain will be covered entirely in light. From here to 'Akka will be connected by roads and on each side trees will be planted | ISA.015-016 | ISAE.1920-01-04 | @future of Haifa; of the Holy Land, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @status of kings; future of monarchy | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3653 | Words spoken on 1919-12-21 | 110 | Persian | بلی عاکور همین عکاست فرنگی ها به عکا عاکور میگویند در طول مدت تاریخ | Yes, Achor is this same 'Akka. The Westerners refer to 'Akka as Achor. Over the course of history, it has acquired many names. At first it was 'Aúk, then became 'akúr [Achor] and afterwards 'Akka | ISA.015 | ISAE.1919-12-21 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3652 | 120 | Persian | Man of Courage, The | وقتی اتفاق افتاد که وزرا من باب دشمنی مرحوم میرزا عباس را متهم | At one time, the ministers, actuated by their animosity, accused ʻAbbas [Núrí] of committing treacherous behavior, and they concocted a plot | AHB.130BE #09-10 p.20 | BLO_courage.06b | @stories; anecdotes, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3651 | Words spoken on 1915-11-05 | 120 | Persian | فی الحقیقه در وقتی که خلق بر آن بودند که قائم مروج قرآن است صریحا فرمود | In truth, at the time when the people were maintaining that the Qa'im would promote the Qur'an, He explicitly declared [3.5s] | NSS.160a | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3650 | Words spoken at the Shrine of the Bab | 120 | Persian | گل بسیار است ولی این گل سرخ حتایت دیگریست واقعا سلطتان گلها است | There are many flowers but this rose is another story. Truly, it is the sultan of flowers | MAS5.200x | KSHK#32 | @Baha'u'llah | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3649 | 130 | Persian | عبدالبافی افندی یکی از شعراء و فضلای مشهور موصل بود. در ذمان خود | Abdu'l-Baqi Effendi was among the renowned poets and scholars of Mosul in his time [3.5s] | MUH2.1024, NSS.133 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3648 | Words spoken on 1916-01-22 | 570 | Persian | Man of Courage, The | تاریخ حاجی میرزا اقاسی حکایت غریبی است حاجی میر.ا اقاسی اهل تبریز بود... میرزا ابو القاسم قائم مقام اول شخص ایران بود | The story of Haji Mirza Aqasi is indeed a strange account. He was from Tabriz [3.5s]... ...Mírza Abuʼl-Qasim, the Qaʼim-Maqam, was the foremost man of Persia and a highly capable individual | AHB.130BE #09-10 p.19-20, RHQM2.1166-1169 (636) (391-393), SFI18.276 | LOIR20.172, BLO_courage.05 | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3647 | Words spoken on 1919-12-26 | 600 | Persian | تمام آن الواح از لسان جمال مبارک است در اواخر ایام مبارک یک نفر از احباب | All of those Tablets were revealed by the lips of the Blessed Beauty. During the final blessed days [of Baha'u'llah], one of the friends asked [the same question] of Mírza Áqa Jan | ISA.025-027 | ISAE.1919-12-26 | @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3646 | Words spoken on 1919-12-15 | 700 | Persian | اغنیا باید به فقرا کمک کنند در آمریکا شخصی بود قریب سیصد ملیون لیره ثروت داشت | The rich must aid the poor. There was a person in America who was worth about three hundred million liras. Nevertheless, he was unwilling to spend even one lira on the poor; and all his life, he had not experienced comfort | ISA.006-008 | ISAE.1919-12-15 | @stories; anecdotes, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3645 | 10 | The insistent self. | BW_v13p1187x, VLAB.010x | @Satan; the Evil One, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3644 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | Tests are like fire which purifies. | TDLA.014, BLO_PN#104 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3643 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 10 | Yes, though not so great as Buddha. | DLA.062, BLO_PN#026 | @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3642 | Words to Waite, Harrison et al, spoken on 1909-10-13 | 10 | This is right, this is right. | PN_unsorted p158 | @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3641 | Words spoken on 1907-04-15 | 10 | This is but the imagination of mankind. | BSTW#211a | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @demons and evil spirits, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3640 | Words to Sutherland Maxwell in 1909 | 10 | Where is He?... Everywhere is nowhere. | BW_v12p658 | @God as personal vs. impersonal reality, @knowledge; recognition of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3639 | Interview with W. A. Lawson of the Sacramento Bee given on 1912-10-26 | 10 | Being a Bahá’í, my affiliation is with all religions. | ECN.409+526 | @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @oneness; unity of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3638 | Words to Juliet Thompson | 10 | The daughters of the Kingdom should not have a desire. | SW_v07#10 p.097 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3637 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 10 | Bahá'u'lláh was a descendent of Abraham. | DLA.066, BLO_PN#026 | @Baha'u'llah | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3636 | Words to Ramona Brown, spoken on 1912-10-24 | 10 | Memorize the talk I gave at Stanford University. | MAB.080 | @methods of teaching the Cause, @personal instructions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3635 | Words to American pilgrims spoken around April 1907 | 10 | Through prayer, supplication, purification of the heart and good wishes. | SW_v08#04 p.045 | @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3634 | Words spoken on 1914-07-11 | 10 | Devotion to and love for one's vocation accomplishes miracles. | DAS.1914-07-11, SW_v08#02 p.021 | @excellence; distinction, @power of imagination; thought; right intention, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @work as worship | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3633 | Words spoken on 1914-02-16 | 10 | A cheerful countenance lends consolation to the beholder. | DAS.1914-02-16, SW_v07#18 p.186 | @consolation and comfort, @courtesy; culture [adab], @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3631 | Last recorded words | 10 | You wish me to take some food, and I am going? | GPB.311x, PAB.007, ABCC.462, VLAB.141 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3630 | 10 | I am a servant and this station I have chosen for myself. | SW_v08#15 p.210 | - | - | |||||||||||||
| ABU3629 | Words spoken on 1914-07-26 | 10 | What art thou reading? "A lecture on the coming world teacher, by Mrs. Besant." "The great world teacher has already come" | DAS.1914-07-26, SW_v09#01 p.006 | @predictions and prophecies, @prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3628 | Words to Ali-Kuli Khan spoken in 1900 | 10 | Sometimes material food confers spiritual sustenance and strength. | SUR.136 | @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3627 | Words recorded by Mrs Goodall in Oct 1910 | 10 | The Christians have exaggerated the birth of Jesus. | PN_1912 p015 | @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3626 | Words to Dickinson Miller, spoken on 1911-08-24 | 10 | Such people are doing the work of true religion. | AIF.1911-08-24, PN_1909B p026, PN_unsorted p075, DJT.165-166, BLO_PN#027 | @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3625 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | No, the dead retain both interest in and remembrance of those they love. | SW_v14#02 p.037, PN_1907 p017 | @soul; spirit after death | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3624 | 10 | Truth (the highest truth) is unattainable except through the favor of the Holy Spirit. | SW_v08#08 p.098 | @The Holy Spirit, @being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3623 | Words to William Randall ? | 10 | Never talk about God to a man with an empty stomach. Feed him first. | SW_v11#03 p.043-044, VLAB.105 | @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @methods of teaching the Cause, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3622 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-09 | 10 | Trustworthiness is the most brilliant jewel in the diadem which crowns man's heavenly attributes. | DAS.1912-12-09, SW_v08#02 p.025 | @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3621 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 10 | Das schönste Pentagramm umfaßt: Liebe, Arbeit, Gebet, Friede und Freude. Jage täglich seiner Verwirklichung nach! | SDW v13#10 p.104 | @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @work as worship | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3620 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 10 | Whatever is done in love is never any trouble, and---there is always time. | PTF.052, DLA.042, VLAB.090, BLO_PN#026 | E. Mahony (1), E. Mahony (2) | @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3619 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 10 | These are the words of Bahá'u'lláh referring to His persecutions and those of His Martyrs. | DLA.062-063, BLO_PN#026 | @martyrs and martyrdom, @suffering and imprisonment, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3618 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | The miracles of Christ were spiritual teachings, not literal. | TDLA.014, BLO_PN#104 | @literal interpretation, @miracles and their interpretation, @outward and inward meanings, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3617 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | His spiritual attributes. No one can destroy his spiritual qualities; they are from God. | SW_v07#16 p.153, PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.014, BLO_PN#104 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3616 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | No man can be happy without God, though he may not know why he is miserable | SW_v07#16 p.161, PN_1907 p017 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @knowledge; recognition of God, @transcending the material condition, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3615 | 10 | I dreamed a dream and behold, the Blessed Beauty (Baha'u'llah) came and said to Me: `Destroy this room.' | GPB.310x, PAB.003 | @accounts of dreams and visions, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3614 | 10 | Be not grieved on account of poverty for true wealth is surging and inundating like unto the ocean. | SW_v08#02 p.020 | @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @symbolism, @consolation and comfort | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3613 | Words to two mullahs, spoken on 1913-07-30 | 10 | Our field of activity is Europe and America. I have come here to rest for a few months. | DAS.1913-07-30, ABIE.130, BLO_PN#007 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3612 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 10 | No, the ablution is only for the obligatory daily prayer which should be said three times a day. | DLA.064, BLO_PN#026 | @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @law of obligatory prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3611 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | Yes: every soul has a beginning, but, once created is immortal. | PN_1907 p016 | @existence; immortality of the human soul, @origin of the soul; the soul as emanation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3610 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | Yes, there must be a standard of perfection for human example. | TDLA.006, BLO_PN#104 | @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3609 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | The soul is the Sanctuary of God; Reason is His Throne. | TDLA.005, BLO_PN#104 | @mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @soul is the essential reality of man, @the human soul | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3608 | 10 | Religion is an attitude toward God which reflects itself in our attitude towards men. | SW_v13#04 p.090x | @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3607 | 10 | The body is the word. The spirit is its meaning. The word passes. The meaning remains. | SW_v13#04 p.090x | @outward and inward meanings | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3606 | 10 | The meaning of the dream I dreamt is now clear and evident. Please God this dynamite will not explode | GPB.271x, VLAB.138 | @predictions and prophecies, @interpretation of dreams and visions | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3605 | Words spoken on 1914-04-20 in Haifa | 10 | I am afraid if I breathe Mirza Ahmad will write it down. | DAS.1914-04-20 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3604 | Words spoken on 1911-10-18 in Paris | 10 | In a state of potentiality, possessing no consciousness as we understand it. | PN_1911 p017 | @origin of the soul; the soul as emanation, @development of capacity and readiness, @existence and nonexistence; preexistence | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3603 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 10 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure. | AIL.107 | @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @knowledge of self | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3602 | Words to Dr. O. F. Fischer spoken around Apr. 1909 | 10 | A Manifestation of God is a tangible part of the Great Concord. | PN_1909F p044 | @station of the Manifestation of God, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3601 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | Our Actions reveal what we are, no matter what the tongue speaks. | TDLA.005, BLO_PN#104 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3600 | Words spoken on 1914-07-13 | 10 | The Cause of Baha'o'llah is in fulfillment of all the prophecies in all the books of the religions of the world. | DAS.1914-07-13, SW_v09#01 p.006 | @prophecy and fulfillment, @oneness; unity of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3599 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 10 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | I received a letter from Tolstoy, and in it he said that he wished to write a book upon Baha'u'llah. | AIL.094 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3598 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-10 | 10 | When I pray I turn my thoughts and face to the Blessed Perfection. | PN_1909 p017, PN_1909 p052 | @Manifestation of God as mediator, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3597 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | Faith is not so much what we believe as what we carry out. | SW_v08#05 p.058 , PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.013, BLO_PN#104 | @goodly deeds; actions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3596 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | It rests with the mercy of God and through the eternal bounty it will not be deprived of that mercy. | SW_v09#09 p.101, TDLA.006, BLO_PN#104 | @soul; spirit after death, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3595 | 10 | Give the message with love and joy to those we meet and leave the souls to God. | SW_v13#04 p.090x | - | - | |||||||||||||
| ABU3594 | 10 | I mean the heaven from which Christ descended and to which he ascended--the heaven of divine Will, the heaven of spirituality | SW_v13#06 p.148 | @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @resurrection of Christ | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3593 | 10 | Children of unbelievers and infidels who die before the age of responsibility are not punished, because they are under the favor of God. | SW_v09#09 p.101 | @chastisement and requital, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @justice and wrath of God | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3592 | Words spoken in 1921 | 10 | I am so fatigued the hour is come when I must leave everything and take My flight. I am too weary to walk | GPB.310x, PAB.004 | @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3591 | Words to Inez Cook spoken in Apr. 1920 | 10 | Until the sun rises in the West, the door of repentance will remain open. | PN_1920 p113 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @predictions and prophecies, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3590 | Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23 | 10 | To enter in the Kingdom of God is the greatest and most important duty. | DAS.1913-04-23 | @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3589 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic in New York, 1912-12-06 | 10 | This (Covenant) is the Ark of Noah, its moving power is the fire of the love of God | DAS.1912-12-06, SW_v03#16 p.002, SW_v08#16 p.219 | @love as fire, @love of God, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3588 | Words to Juliet Thompson, spoken on 1911-08-25 | 10 | Yes. If not in this world, then in the next, as a sleeper wakens. | AIF.1911-08-25, DJT.171, BLO_PN#027 | @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3587 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 10 | Die freudigste Genugtuung fühlt man nach Erfüllung und Vollendung von schweren, opfervollen Pflichten! | SDW v13#10 p.103 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3586 | Words spoken in 1910 | 10 | Characterize thyself with the characteristics of God, and thou shalt know the spiritual life! | TOR.211, VLAB.117 | @attaining the life of the spirit, @human reality created in the image of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3585 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | God has made all mankind of one family; no race is superior to another. | PN_1907 p017 | @race unity; racial issues, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3584 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | No! Not to me, but to the Glory of God (Bahá'u'lláh) whose Light I reflect | PN_1907 p016 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3583 | Words spoken on 1905-03-26 | 10 | Today, the most important affair is firmness in the Covenant | SW_v05#15 p.227, SW_v04#14 p.237 | @role of the Covenant in preserving unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3582 | Words to Aseyeh Allen spoken in May 1907 | 10 | Part is what you are and part is what I hope you will be. | PN_1907 p063 | @personal instructions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3581 | Words to Mason Remey around Sept. 1911 | 10 | Bahá'u'lláh is the root, I am the Branch. The root of the tree does not bear fruit. The fruit is found upon the branches. | SW_v02#12 p.011 | @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3580 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 10 | Was ist Kultur, wenn sie nicht lebendiger Besitz eines Einzelnen ist? Luxus des Begüterten! Klassen- und Kastenbesitz | SDW v13#11 p.112 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3579 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | No. It will be placed in different conditions by God's Mercy, and will eventually progress. | PN_1907 p018, PN_unsorted p023 | @existence; immortality of the human soul, @soul; spirit after death, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3578 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | No. A soul, once freed from its body, never again takes shape in this world. | PN_1907 p017 | @reincarnation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3577 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 10 | Their punishment will be a deprivation of God... No, for God's Mercy is never wearied. | PN_1907 p016 | @chastisement and requital, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3576 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | They are limited only by the capacity of souls to whom They reveal the Word. | TDLA.006, BLO_PN#104 | @differences in human capacity, @physical limitations of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3575 | 10 | Persian | والله بتو محبت دارم و بیادت مشغولم اینست که اثر دارد | By God, I cherish thee with love and am occupied with thy remembrance. This verily hath effect [3.5s] | KHH2.192a (2.352) | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3574 | Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-13 | 10 | Persian | هیئتی برای ترجمهٴ آثار مبارکه لازمست که در چند لسان ماهر باشند | A committee consisting of experts in several languages is essential for the translation of the Sacred Writings. | BDA1.371.15 | MHMD1.390 | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3573 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-13 | 10 | Persian | من در امریکا گفتم که جنگ بالکان مقدمهٴ آن حرب عمومی است | In America, I stated that the Balkan War was the beginning of the world war to which you refer | BDA2.019 | MHMD2.022 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3572 | Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-12 | 10 | Persian | معانی شرع قدیم را حضرت مسیح نشئهٴ واثر جدید داد | By this is meant that Christ imbued the meanings of the ancient law with new life and invested them with a fresh effect | AVK2.183.02, BDA2.297 | DAS.1913-05-12, MHMD2.393 | @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @Christ; Christianity, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3571 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-04 | 10 | Persian | مثل تعلق آفتاب بمرآتست و موت عبارت از انقطاع این ارتباط | It has the same connection as the sun has with the mirror. Death is the name for the dissolution of this connection. | BDA1.146.08 | SW_v14#02 p.037, MHMD1.157 | @relationship of the soul to the body, @soul; spirit after death, @symbolism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3570 | Words spoken on 1913-09-18 in Ramleh | 10 | It is necessary to joke now and then. Joking is the salt of conversation. | DAS.1913-09-18, ABIE.329, BLO_PN#007 | @humor; jokes | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3569 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-03 | 10 | Persian | سلطنت الهی قدیم است و مادام خالق بوده خلق هم داشته | The Kingdom of God is pre-existent and, since He is the Creator; without doubt He has always had a creation. | BDA1.144.16 | MHMD1.155-156 | @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @creation of the world, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @infinity and eternity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3568 | Words spoken on 1913-01-09 in Edinburgh | 10 | Persian | خدایا دارندهء این کتاب را موفق فرما | O God! Graciously assist the bearer of this book. | AHB.128BE #06-11 p.356, YHA1.429, BDA2.074 | MHMD2.089 | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3567 | Words spoken on 1913-01-09 in Edinburgh | 10 | Persian | ای پروردگار پرتوی از شمس حقیقت بر این انجمن زن تا روشن گردد | O Divine providence, shed a ray from the Sun of Truth upon this gathering that it may become illumined. | HUV1.018, YHA1.429, BDA2.074 | MHMD2.089 | @light and darkness, @Manifestation of God as sun, @prayer for gatherings; meetings; assemblies, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3566 | Words spoken on 1912-12-25 in London | 10 | Persian | امر بهائی شامل اصول جمیع ادیانست چونکه صد آمد نود هم پیش ماست | The Baha'i Cause consists of the same principles inherent in all the divine religions. 'Now that the one hundred hath come, ninety is with us also.' | BDA2.041 | MHMD2.048 | @universality of the Cause, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @oneness; unity of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3565 | 10 | Arabic | الدنیا قلابة دائما من حال الی حال فالعاقل هو الذی لا یعتمد علی تقلباتها | The world doth ever revolve from state to state, and the wise one is he who placeth not his reliance upon its fluctuations [3.5s] | YIK.298, ZIAB2.141 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3564 | 10 | Arabic | البلشفیک ستسری من روسیا و متی یعم شرها یتفق العالم علی سحقها | The Bolsheviks shall spread forth from Russia, and when their evil encompasseth all, then shall the world unite to crush them [3.5s] | YIK.304, ZIAB1.105 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3563 | Words to Mrs Maxwell, spoken on 1912-09-06 | 10 | Persian | اطفال زینت خانه اند منزلی که طفل ندارد مثل اینست که چراغ ندارد | Children are the ornaments of the home. A home which has no children is like one without light. | BDA1.230.15 | SW_v19#12 p.381, MHMD1.247 | @parents and children; youth; families, @light and darkness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3562 | 20 | Sorrow is like furrows, the deeper they go the more plentiful are the fruits we obtain. | VLAB.128 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3561 | 20 | The withered and faded are refreshed, the joyless becomes happy, the extinct | SW_v08#08 p.103 | - | - | |||||||||||||
| ABU3560 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-10-19 | 20 | You are writing a book. I have been reading all morning these letters. They are interesting. | DAS.1914-10-19 | @review of publications | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3559 | Words spoken on 1914-07-10 in Haifa | 20 | A material man lets himself be worried and harassed by little things but a spiritual man is always calm and serene under all circumstances | DAS.1914-07-10, SW_v07#16 p.154 | @material and spiritual existence; two books, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @composure; tranquillity; serenity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3558 | Words to M. R. Shirazi in April 1914 | 20 | No, the world will be so trained that no one will harm even his own enemy. | TDAB.09 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual transformation, @unity; oneness of humanity, @predictions and prophecies, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3557 | Words spoken in Dec. 1912 in New York | 20 | All through America I have encouraged the Bahais to study Esperanto and to the extent of my ability I will strive in its spread and promotion. | SW_v11#17 p.286 | @universal language, @call to action | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3556 | Answer to Mrs Brittingham, New York, Jul 1912 | 20 | They existed before coming to this world, but not as we know personality upon this planet. | PN_unsorted p035, PN_unsorted p089, PN_unsorted p091, BSTW#017, BSTW#042b | @existence and nonexistence; preexistence, @origin of the soul; the soul as emanation, @relationship of the soul to the body | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3555 | Words spoken in May 1911 in Ramleh | 20 | No, man should develop all his qualities for each quality has its own use and function. | SW_v14#02 p.037, PN_1911 p004 | @education and the development of capacity, @soul; spirit after death, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3554 | Words to Prof. E. A. Rogers, spoken on 1912-10-04 | 20 | Oh my, that is a long, long story. It covers so much. Please come another day and I will tell you what I can. | ECN.755 | @knowledge; recognition of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3553 | 20 | Every stone of that building, every stone of the road leading to it [the Shrine of the Báb] I have with infinite tears and at tremendous cost, raised and placed in position | GPB.275x, VLAB.029, COB.224 | @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @Shrines and Holy places, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3551 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 20 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Art is worship.... The drama is of the utmost importance. It has been a great educational power in the past | AIL.093 | @high station of the arts and sciences, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @stories; anecdotes, @literature; drama; humanities; the arts, @work as worship | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3550 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-16 | 20 | Yes, if he deals unjustly and tyrannically with his people he forfeits the right to govern them. | PN_1907 p019 | @justice and mercy, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @relationship between government and people, @status of kings; future of monarchy | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3549 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 20 | Yes, but they do not do it through mediums nor in material ways, but in spiritual ways. | PN_1907 p017 | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3548 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | No, they are a distinct Revelation of God and will form a Book larger than our Bible. | TDLA.006-007, BLO_PN#104 | @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3547 | Words to Safa Kinney | 20 | No, I do not know everything. But when I need to know something, it is pictured before Me. | IHP.060, BLO_PN#046 | @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3546 | 20 | ...(Under such circumstances) if I should fail to make an effort to protect you, I should be not only responsible | SW_v08#12 p.154 | @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3545 | Words spoken on 1913-08-05 in Ramleh | 20 | The duty of the believers of God is to be servants to one another and to attend to his brother's wants | DAS.1913-08-05, SW_v08#12 p.143-144, ABIE.163, BLO_PN#007 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3544 | Words to Mrs C in 1910 | 20 | I tell you to be happy because we can not know the spiritual life unless we are happy! | TOR.211, VLAB.116 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3543 | Words spoken in 1910 | 20 | I cannot tell you, but in all those upon whom I look, I see only my Father's face. | TOR.006, VLAB.085 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3542 | Words to Charlotte Bingham, spoken on 1907-10-14 | 20 | Yes; not through Isaac nor Ishmael, but through one of his other sons, of whom he had six. | PN_1906 p109, PN_1907 p018, PN_unsorted p023 | @Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael, @Baha'u'llah | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3541 | Words recorded by Mrs Goodall in Oct 1910 | 20 | The sun that would come down and enter everything would not remain the sun. Its identity would be scattered. | PN_1912 p015 | @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @Manifestation of God as sun, @transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3540 | Words to Henry Randall | 20 | The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail. | VLAB.121 | @limits of the intellect, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3539 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 20 | Bahá'i-Mutter (zu einer anwesenden Araberin gesprochen), lehre deine Söhne den Segen des Gehorsams und die Seligkeit des Opfers | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @education of children; moral education, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3538 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | We should not be occupied with our failings and weaknesses, hut concern ourselves with the will of God so that it may flow through us, thereby healing these human infirmities. | SW_v14#06 p.165, PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.013, BLO_PN#104 | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3537 | 20 | Be not grieved if thy circumstances become exacting, and problems press upon thee from all sides. Verily, thy Lord changeth grief into joy, hardship into comfort, and affliction into absolute ease. | DAL.093 | @consolation and comfort, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3536 | Words spoken at 97 Cadogan Gardens, ca. Sep. 1911 | 20 | That is well. Very well. A day's work done in the spirit of service is in itself an act of worship. Such work is a prayer unto God. | CHH.152, BLO_PN#022 | @stories; anecdotes, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @work as worship, @courtesy; culture [adab] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3535 | 20 | Let us pray to God that the breath of the Holy Spirit may again give hope and refreshment to the people, awakening in them a desire to do the Will of God. | SW_v08#08 p.104 | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power of prayer, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3534 | 20 | The outpouring of the Holy Spirit changes the small acorn into an over-shadowing tree | SW_v08#08 p.103 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual transformation, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3533 | Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09 | 20 | I do not like the word 'leader'. I am Abdul Baha. I am the servant of the world of humanity. | DAS.1914-05-09, PN_1914 p003 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3532 | Words spoken in Oct. 1912 in New York | 20 | Between 1860 and 1865 you did a wonderful thing; you knocked the shackles from chattel slavery; but today you must do a much more wonderful thing: you must destroy industrial slavery. | SW_v07#15 p.147, SW_v06#04 p.033, SW_v08#01 p.006 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @race unity; racial issues, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3531 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 20 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | All that we see around us is the work of mind. It is mind in the herb and in the mineral that acts on the human body, and changes its condition. | AIL.095 | @mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit, @power of the mind over nature | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3530 | Words to Mrs Bingham and Mrs Devin, spoken on 1907-10-15 | 20 | No. Melchisedek, who was 'without beginning or end of days' was the first one. | PN_1906 p109, PN_1907 p018, PN_unsorted p023 | @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @categories of Prophets (major; minor; village), @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3529 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | Moral life consists in the government of one's self. Immortality is government of a human soul by the Divine Will. | SW_v14#01 p.009, PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.005, BLO_PN#104 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual transformation, @existence; immortality of the human soul, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3528 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | Prayer is both attitude and word, it depends upon the soul-condition. It is like a song | SW_v08#04 p.043, TDLA.016, BLO_PN#104 | @importance of prayer, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @music and singing | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3527 | Words spoken ca. Dec. 1911 in London | 20 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | It resembles many drunkards gathered together to protest against the drinking of alcohol. They say drink is horrible and they straightaway go out from the house to drink again. | AIL.061 | @hypocrisy, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3526 | Words spoken ca. Nov. 1911 in Paris | 20 | Why should you wish to return here? In My Father's House are many mansions--many, many world! Why should you desire to come back to this particular planet? | CHH.181, BLO_PN#022 | @soul; spirit after death, @reincarnation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @realms of being; three realms; five realms | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3525 | 20 | It is most clear and manifest that national affairs will never revolve around their | SW_v07#15 p.138, SW_v07#15 p.141, SW_v09#07 p.082 | @universal education, @unity of thought and belief, @unity of governments; political unity, @education of children; moral education | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3524 | Words spoken on 1913-07-02 in Port Said | 20 | The believers must cultivate a beautiful voice so that they may sing the Bahá'í songs or chant | DAS.1913-07-02, ABIE.010, BLO_PN#007 | @music and singing, @power of prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3523 | Words to Stanwood Cobb in Jan. 1908 | 20 | One might say, 'Well, I will endure such-and-such a person so long as he is endurable.' But Bahá'ís must endure people even when they are unendurable. | IHP.032, VLAB.028, BLO_PN#046 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3522 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 20 | Love for men is love for God. To serve men is to serve God. My sign is this--that I serve the people, that I clothe the people. | AELT.116 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3521 | Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21 | 20 | The teachings of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh are the breaths of the Holy Spirit which create man anew. Personal purity, both in private and public, is emphasized and insisted upon. | DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v08#08 p.103x, SW_v12#01 p.014, SW_v13#10 p.260x, PN_1914 p005, PTF.137x, IHP.062x, BLO_PN#046x | @spiritual transformation, @The Holy Spirit, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3520 | Words to the Persian friends, spoken on 1913-01-26 | 20 | If this Cause had appeared in America, today there would not have been a single soul in that country who would not be either a Bahá'í or a friend. | DAS.1913-01-26 | @growth of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3519 | Words to Miss Rosenberg in 1902(?) | 20 | How could they (the Manifestations) teach and guide others in the Way if they themselves did not undergo every species of suffering to which other human beings are subjected. | SW_v07#11 p.108, PN_1909 p073, PN_1909 p105, PN_unsorted p022 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3518 | Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-30 | 20 | Sometimes joking is necessary. Otherwise we would get depressed. The Blessed Beauty said, 'In every twenty-four hours, two hours must be spent in a way that will cause happiness.' | PN_1919 p055 | @humor; jokes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3517 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-07 | 20 | When I was young they would light ten candles and at the range of a very long distance I would put out the lights one after another without missing one. | DAS.1913-05-07 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @excellence; distinction, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3516 | Words recorded by Mrs Goodall in Oct 1910 | 20 | The atoms composing an ocean are in appearance the ocean, but the identity of the atoms remains. So it is with our individuality in the ocean of life, it remains. | PN_1912 p015 | @soul; spirit after death, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @unity in diversity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3515 | Words to Mrs Brittingham in 1912 | 20 | The 'Self' of God spoken of in the Tablets refers to the Attributes of the Merciful, not to His Essence. This 'Self' is found in 'Perfection' in the Prophet, only. | PN_unsorted p090 | @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3514 | Words to Juliet Thompson et al, spoken on 1909-07-08 | 20 | Capacity attracts. The greater your capacity, the more you will be filled. When the child is hungry and cries for milk, the milk of the mother begins to flow rapidly. | DJT.075, BLO_PN#027 | @development of capacity and readiness, @law of cause and effect | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3513 | Words to Mountfort Mills, spoken around 1909-05-26 | 20 | Opposition is unnecessary. Here is one who has a lecture to give. It you like, go; if not, stay away. You have more important things to consider, such as teaching. | PN_1909 p082 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3512 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-26 | 20 | The word 'same' means that the reality is one. Just as the sun arises from several points. | PN_1909F p071, PN_1909F p135, AKL.014 | @oneness; unity of religion, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3511 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 20 | Yes, prayer might prevent the strong wind from blowing out the light of the lamp--but it could never change the amount of oil in the lamp--that is preordained. | DLA.032, BLO_PN#026 | @theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering, @free will and predestination; fate, @power of prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3510 | Words spoken on 1907-04-15 | 20 | Hell denotes the heedlessness of people from God. The meaning of 'skin' is doubts | BSTW#211b | @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @symbolism, @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3509 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | Guidance to God. What is dearer to man than life? So, therefore, leading a soul to Eternal Life is the greatest blessing and benefit you can bestow upon that soul. | TDLA.014-015, BLO_PN#104 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3508 | Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04 | 20 | We are told in the Bible of the Baptism of Water and of the Spirit, and also of the Baptism of Spirit and of Fire, and these are the Three Baptisms. | PN_1901 p025 | @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @spiritual baptism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3507 | Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901 | 20 | the Muhammadans [are] accustomed to think Mahomet the greater because of his title 'Seal of the Prophets', but in the time of Jesus spirituality and the spiritual life was far greater. | PN_1901 p008, NRMM.215 | @Seal of the Prophets, @Christ; Christianity, @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction, @Muhammad; Islam, @station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3506 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 20 | Up to now, to believe was to acknowledge, to make a confession of faith, but in this greatest of all Causes, believing means to have praiseworthy qualities and to perform praiseworthy acts. | BW_v13p1187 | @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @words vs deeds, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @goodly deeds; actions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3505 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-15 | 20 | Yes, in Persia to the Shah, in Turkey to the Sultan, though in reality He was not subject to any | PN_1907 p018, PN_unsorted p023 | @suffering and imprisonment, @station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3504 | Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04 | 20 | All believers have attained the Heavenly Gift, but each in a different degree. All have arrived at this Great Rolling Ocean, but each one has taken that which will quench his thirst. | PN_1901 p025, PN_1901 p037 | @differences in human capacity, @living waters; water of life, @spiritual transformation, @development of capacity and readiness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3503 | Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09 | 20 | This is not only the golden age but the age of Diamond. This is the Century of Lights! This is the cycle of Love. This is the glorious Down of the Sun of Reality | DAS.1914-05-09, PN_1914 p003 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @coming-of-age; maturity of mankind, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3502 | Words to an English friend, spoken on 1913-03-31 | 20 | Whosoever with a contrite heart prays and begs from Bahá'u'lláh help and assistance will be aided, even if he is not a Bahá'í, only that he is sincere and whole-hearted in his prayers. | DAS.1913-03-31 | @power of prayer, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3501 | Words recorded by Miss Boylan spoken around 1911-08-25 | 20 | Tell them a Bahá'í is a person who is free from all prejudices - racial prejudice, religious prejudices... A Bahá'í is one in whom the human perfections are active. | PN_1912 p071 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @race unity; racial issues, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3500 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | The right hand is the hand of honor. In the East, wearing it upon this hand attracts attention and causes comment. But the real place to wear the Greatest Name is in the heart. | TDLA.016, BLO_PN#104 | @personal instructions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3499 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | Everything in life ministers to our development. Our lesson is to study and learn. Money and difficulties are alike advantages to us. | TDLA.010, BLO_PN#104 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual transformation, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3498 | Words to Will and Wendell Dodge, spoken on 1901-12-02 | 20 | This world is likened unto the ocean; the law and teachings of God is the ship; the mate is the covenant; the Captain is God; and the sea shore is the kingdom of Abha | PN_1901 p083, BLO_PN#109 | @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3497 | 20 | Lydia, Lydia, you cannot put up with this one man, and I have to put up with the whole human race. | SUR.236 | - | - | |||||||||||||
| ABU3496 | Words spoken on 1911-10-18 in Paris | 20 | Yes, he will hear of it in his next life, but through the mercy of God, not through his own ability. | PN_1911 p016 | @soul; spirit after death | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3495 | Words to pilgrims in June 1906 | 20 | Both Peter and Paul suffered martyrdom with all steadfastness by the order of Nero. This is a clear and indisputable fact. | PN_1906 p077, SUR.268, BLO_PN#001 | @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3494 | Words spoken on 1914-07-24 in Haifa | 20 | Today the highest of all the degrees are the degrees of firmness and steadfastness in faith and certainty. | DAS.1914-07-24, SW_v08#16 p.219 | @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3493 | Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-06 | 20 | Before you teach others, teach yourself. Man must first test his knowledge in himself to see whether it is workable or theoretical. | DAS.1913-05-06 | @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @knowledge of self | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3492 | Words spoken ca. 1912-10-08 in the United States | 20 | We are on the eve of the battle of Armageddon referred to in the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. The time is two years hence when only a spark will set aflame the whole of Europe. | SW_v10#03 p.033, SW_v13#09 p.252-253, SAS.107-108, BSTW#022 | @predictions and prophecies, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3491 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 20 | It is not impossible that He should have been, though it is not necessary that all Manifestations should come in that way. | PN_1907 p018, PN_unsorted p023 | @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary, @station of the Manifestation of God, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3490 | Words to Madam J, spoken on 1904-04-15 | 20 | Of course, they can see us and know everything we are doing for that is the world of real sight and sense. | PN_1904 p021, PN_1904 p030, BSTW#180c | @soul; spirit after death, @connection between material and spiritual worlds | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3489 | Words to Fugeta, Dr. Esslemont et al, spoken on 1920-01-05 | 20 | Whatever anyone thinks, he says, but do not trust what is said unless I have written with my own hand, that is correct. | PN_1919 p068, PN_1920 p015, PN_1920 p027 | @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3488 | Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-19 | 20 | No. In the presence of some of the more intimate friends who used to visit her, she would unveil but not in public. | PN_1919 p042 | @veiling [hijab], @Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3487 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-15 | 20 | I liken you to the pupil of the eye. You are black and it is black, yet it becomes the focus of light. | AHV.017, BLO_PN#045 | @light and darkness, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3486 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 20 | The Prophets and Holy Men always went into the wilderness to pray. Many of them walked upon Mount Carmel and communed with God. | TDLA.009, BLO_PN#104 | @meditation, @mindfulness; concentration; focus, @Mount Carmel | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3485 | Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09 | 20 | Is there a hell more direful than Ignorance? A hell worse than deprivation from the Divine Nearness? A hell lower than negligence and inadvertence? | DAS.1914-05-09, PN_1914 p003 | @heedlessness and ignorance of the people | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3483 | Words to Dr Henderson, spoken on 1912-07-31 | 20 | Persian | هر چیز ممدوحی زود نشر میشود ولی اطفال را باید اول تعلیم دین نمود تا صادق و امین شوند | Everything praiseworthy spreads rapidly. But the children must first be taught religion so that they may be sincere and trustworthy. | BDA1.173.12 | SW_v19#10 p.310, MHMD1.188 | @education of children; moral education, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3482 | 20 | Persian | هر بنیانی عاقبت ویران شود مگر خدمت باستان یزدان پس خدمتی در دیوان الهی نما تا بایوان رحمانی راه یابی | Every foundation shall ultimately crumble save service at the threshold of the Ancient of Days; therefore render thou a service at the Divine Court, that thou mayest find thy way unto the pavilion of the All-Merciful [3.5s] | KHMT.192 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3481 | 20 | Persian | هد هد شخصی بود که سلیمان بقاصدی فرستاد و باعلی درجه شهرت رسید مرغی ضعیف بود | The hoopoe was one who Solomon dispatched as a messenger, and attained unto the loftiest heights of renown though it was but a feeble bird [3.5s] | AVK2.208.04 | @stories; anecdotes, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3480 | Words spoken on 1912-10-16 in San Francisco | 20 | Persian | نطقهای من همه باقتضای وقت و اندازهٴ استعداد نفوس است بهر طفلک آن پدر تی تی کند گر چه عقلش هندسهٴ گیتی کند | I speak according to the demands of the time and the capacity of my listeners. 'The father makes gurgling sounds for the newborn infant, although his wisdom be capable of measuring the universe.' | BDA1.314.05 | MHMD1.332 | @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @relativity of religious truth, @wisdom [hikmat], @development of capacity and readiness, @differences in human capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3479 | Words spoken on 1913-05-14 in Paris | 20 | Persian | نان و شیر از هر غذائی سالم‌تر است جمال مبارک میفرمودند در ایام سلیمانیه غذای من اغلب شیر و گاهی شیر برنج بود | Bread and milk are more healthful than any other kind of food. The Blessed Beauty used to say, 'During My days in Sulaymaniyyih, My food on most occasions consisted of milk and sometimes rice pudding | BDA2.299b | MHMD2.395 | @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3478 | Words spoken on board the SS Cedric at sea, 1912-04-06 | 20 | Persian | ما مداخله در طعام جسمانی آنها نمی کنیم مداخلهٴ ما در طعام روحانی است | At the table on board the Cedric Abdu'l-Baha spoke about simple diet - how much better | BDA1.023.02 | DAS.1913-07-20, SW_v08#02 p.018, MHMD1.031, ABIE.090, BLO_PN#007 | @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @material and spiritual existence; two books | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3477 | 20 | Persian | کیفیة شهادة قرة العین هو انهم اخبروها ان زوجة‌الصدر الاعظم تحب ان تلاقیها فی البستان | The manner of the martyrdom of Qurratu'l-Ayn was that they informed her that the wife of the Grand Vizier desired to meet with her in the garden [3.5s] | ASAT4.496b | @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3476 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-05-23 | 20 | Persian | کاش جمال مبارک باین صفحات تشریف آورده بودند از بس جمال مبارک اینگونه مناظر را دوست میداشتند | Would that the Blessed Beauty could have come to these regions! He loved such scenery very much. | BDA1.101.13 | SW_v19#06 p.183, MHMD1.108 | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3475 | Answer to questions, New York, 1912-05-30 | 20 | Persian | صحت و مسرت من در پیشرفت امر الله است امور سائره قابل توجه نه این سرور سرور ابدیست و این حیات حیات سرمدی | My health and happiness depend on the progress of the Cause of God. Nothing else merits attention. This happiness is eternal, and this life is life everlasting. | BDA1.110.11 | SW_v19#06 p.184, MHMD1.117 | @disregarding bodily comfort, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @attaining the life of the spirit, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3474 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 20 | Persian | سبب هدایت فضل است سبب عنایت فضل است مثلا این چشم را عنایت کرده این گوش را فضل عنایت | The cause of guidance is grace, the cause of bounty is grace. For example, He hath bestowed this eye by His bounty, and this ear He hath graciously granted [3.5s] | KHH2.279b | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3473 | Words spoken on 1914-07-24 in Haifa | 20 | Man must be a mine of piety and sympathy. He must associate with all mankind with joy and fragrance. He must not turn away his face | SW_v07#18 p.187 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love and unity, @compassion; kindness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3472 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-04-13 | 20 | Persian | در آینده امریکا ترقی سریع نماید ولی از این عمارتهای بسیار بلند و کثرت نفوس قلبم میگیرد و برای صحت خلق خوب نیست | America will make rapid progress in the future but I am fearful of the effects of these high buildings and such densely populated cities; these are not good for the health. | BDA1.032.07 | SW_v19#02 p.054, MHMD1.041 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3471 | Words at table to the Syrian and Greek Relief Society, spoken on 1912-05-23 | 20 | Persian | خوشا بحال شما که بخدمت فقرا مشغولید بزرگترین سعادت من اینست که از فقرا محسوب شوم | Happy are you who are engaged in serving the poor. My greatest happiness is this, that I may be counted among the poor. | BDA1.101.05 | SW_v19#06 p.183, MHMD1.108 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3470 | Words spoken ca. Nov. 1921 in Haifa | 20 | Persian | خط جناب زین سند است جناب زین کاتب جمال مبارک بود هر لوحی که بخط اوست صحیح و درست | This is the writing of his honor Zein, who was a scribe of the Blessed Beauty. Every tablet penned by his hand is authentic and correct [3.5s] | QT105.2.039 | @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3469 | 20 | Arabic | حیاة الانسان لازم یحصل منها نتیجة الاهمیة لیست بطول العمر ام بقصره | The life of man must needs yield forth a fruit of consequence; its significance lieth not in the length or brevity of its duration [3.5s] | YIK.298, ZIAB2.130 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3468 | Words spoken at a public park in San Francisco, 1912-10-05 | 20 | Persian | تغییر اوضاع عالم و غلبه امر بهائی بجائی خواهد رسید که از سایر امور جز نمونه‌ای مانند این عمودها باقی نخواهد ماند | The world and its condition will change to such a degree and the Baha’í Cause will prevail to such an extent that nothing but a remnant -- like these pillars -- will remain of the previous order. | BDA1.289.05 | MHMD1.306 | @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @growth of the Cause, @predictions and prophecies, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3467 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-05 | 20 | Persian | بیائید ببینید چه ستارهٴ روشنی است من میخواهم احبای جمال مبارک مثل این ستاره روشن باشند | Come and see what a brilliant star this is! I cherish the hope that the loved ones of the Blessed Beauty may be like this shining star | BDA2.013 | MHMD2.015 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3466 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 20 | Persian | بلی امروز یوم جمال قدم و عصر اسم اعظم است روز عروسی است ایام بهار است بعد ایام تابستان و خزان و زمستان میرسد | Yea, this day is the Day of the Ancient Beauty and the Age of the Most Great Name. It is the wedding day, these are the springtime days, after which shall come the days of summer, autumn and winter [3.5s] | KHH2.273a | @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @spiritual springtime, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3465 | 20 | Persian | بعضی از پیغمبرها شاعر مخصوص داشتند چنانکه شاعر رسول الله حسان بود شاعر ما هم ورقاست | Certain among the Prophets had their chosen poets, even as Hassan was the poet of the Apostle of God, and Varqá is Our poet [3.5s] | MSBH1.265 | @poems and quotation from poetry, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3464 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-15 | 20 | Persian | بر حسب استعداد نفوس و اقتضای وقت است بهرطفلک آن پدر تی تی کند گر چه عقلش هندسهٴ گیتی کند | What I have spoken is according to the capacity of the people and the exigency of the time. 'The father makes gurgling sounds for the newborn infant, although his wisdom can measure the universe.' | BDA1.124.05 | SW_v19#07 p.221, MHMD1.133 | @differences in human capacity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @acting according to the exigencies of the day; pragmatism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3463 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 20 | Persian | این صلح بعد از انقلابات و حوادث عظیمه است که رخ می گشاید ... بلی در همین عصر و قرن که در او داخلیم | This peace shall be unveiled after mighty commotions and momentous happenings... yea, in this very age and century wherein we now find ourselves [3.5s] | KHH2.273b | @predictions and prophecies, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3462 | Words spoken on 1913-10-26 in Ramleh | 20 | Mayst thou ever be in a prayerful attitude. In all the worlds [of existence] there is nothing more important than prayer. Prayer confers spirituality upon the heart. | DAS.1913-10-26, SW_v08#04 p.047, SW_v14#06 p.165+168 | @importance of prayer, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3461 | Words spoken at railway station in Buffalo, 1912-09-12 | 20 | Persian | انسان هزار دولار میبخشد نقلی نیست اما یک دولار تعسدی کسی را قبول نمیکند زیرا اینگونه تعدی منافی عدل و نظم عالم است | A man may give $1,000 without minding it but he should not yield even a dollar to the person who wishes to take it wrongfully, for such wrongful behavior flouts justice and disrupts the order of the world. | BDA1.240.10 | MHMD1.257 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3460 | 20 | Persian | اگر چهار یا پنج نفس مثل میرزا ابوالفضل شوند من از این عالم مسرور و مطمئن میروم خدا مبعوث خواهد کرد | If four or five souls should become even as Mirza Abu'l-Fadl, then would I depart from this world with gladness and assurance, for God shall raise them up [3.5s] | YIK.303, ZIAB2.228 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3459 | Words to Siyyid Asadu'llah Qumi, spoken on 1912-03-26 | 20 | Persian | اگر انسان خود را در امر الله ذلیل و حقیر دانست نزد کل عزیز میشود بالعکس بمجرد خیال بزرگی ذلیل و ساقط میگردد | If a man considers himself humble and lowly in the Cause of God, he becomes glorified in all eyes. On the other hand, the moment he aspires to personal greatness, he falls into disgrace and oblivion. | BDA1.011.05 | MHMD1.016 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3458 | Words spoken at Haifa pilgrim house, 1914-10-12 | 20 | Persian | اصل جوهر بیان اینست که انسان باید در فکر این باشد که دیگران را محافظه کند نه در فکر خود باشد | A man must ever think of the protection of others and not of himself. | DAS.1914-10-12, SW_v07#18 p.188 | @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3457 | Words spoken on 1914-04-08 | 20 | In the world of humanity "good intentions" is the greatest means of personal development. | DAS.1914-04-06, SW_v07#19 p.195-196 | @power of imagination; thought; right intention, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3456 | Public address given on 1912-04-26 | 20 | Persian | از جمله تعالیم بهآءالله تساوی حقوق رجال ونسآء است | One of the teachings of Baha'u'llah is equality of rights for men and women. | BDA1.054.x | SW_v19#03 p.091, MHMD1.063 | @role and station of women, @East and West; communication between East and West, @equality of men and women | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3455 | Words recorded by Mrs Goodall in Oct 1910 | 30 | The meaning is this -- For instance, take this teapot. It, in its beauty, is of itself in appearance. It is the last of its kind. | PN_1912 p015 | @Seal of the Prophets, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3454 | Words to Juliet Thompson, spoken on 1912-06-15 | 30 | That was not what I said. I said that the spiritual man and the materialist were two different beings. The spirit is in the flesh. | DJT.311, FDA.031, BLO_PN#027 | @relationship of the soul to the body, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @material and spiritual existence; two books | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3453 | Words spoken on 1913-08-20 in Ramleh | 30 | ...this Blessed Cause has such great power that it shall, ere long, vanquish all opposition. We must live and act in such manner as not to lower the station of the Cause | DAS.1913-08-20, ABIE.215, BLO_PN#007 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @exalting the Word of God in teaching the Cause, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3452 | Words to a believer, spoken on 1913-01-02 | 30 | The fragrance of the rose leads man to the garden and faith and assurance are the fragrance of the rose which attract individual believing souls together. | DAS.1913-01-02 | @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @degrees of faith; certitude, @unity; oneness of humanity, @symbolism, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3451 | Words spoken ca. 1915 in Abu Sinan | 30 | A few hundred years ago, Darzi, a tailor, came from Persia to Syria, where he established the Druze cult. 'Druze' is a corruption of the word 'Darzi. | CHH.195, BLO_PN#022 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3450 | Words to Mary Hanford Ford, spoken on 1911-10-18 | 30 | Yes, surely sincere prayer always has its effect and it has a great influence in the other world | SW_v08#04 p.047, PN_1911 p017 | @soul; spirit after death, @prayer for the departed, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @power of prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3449 | 30 | A heavy chain was placed about His neck by which He was chained to five other Babis | GPB.072x | @incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3448 | Words spoken on 1913-12-21 in Haifa | 30 | Did you know what I was smiling for?... In either case he has not understood, he is just revealing the state of his own | DAS.1913-12-21, SW_v08#11 p.142 | @humor; jokes, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3447 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-30 | 30 | The light is of four kinds: First the light of the sun.... Second, the light of the eye | SW_v08#08 p.098, AHV.025, BLO_PN#045 | @being a source of light; guidance, @light and darkness, @stories; anecdotes | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3446 | Words spoken in 'Akka to Aqa Muhammad Rahim | 30 | One day the Blesed Beauty observed: 'At this very moment the Tablet to the Czar of Russia is being read | STOB.049 #056 | @predictions and prophecies | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3445 | Words to Mr. Pell in Oct. 1912 | 30 | In Persia the Arabs have no doctors. All the people submit to God. There are no physicians, no remedies. When a person gets sick he eats barley soup. When he has a fever he eats dates. This material health is of no importance. | ECN.524 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @transcending the material condition, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3444 | Words spoken ca. 1911 in London | 30 | We should give our bodies a healthy, simple diet, just enough to keep them for good service--no more; to think too much of what we shall or shall not eat is making too much of the material. | SAS.096 | @disregarding bodily comfort, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3443 | Words spoken on 1914-02-24 | 30 | Any undertaking by the believers of God and which directly helps the promotion | DAS.1914-02-24, SW_v07#15 p.140 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @East and West; communication between East and West | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3442 | Words spoken on 1913-08-02 in Ramleh | 30 | This is the day of teaching. This is the day of service. This is the day of the illumination of the world of humanity. Nothing else will give permanent result. This is our work. | DAS.1913-08-02, ABIE.143, BLO_PN#007 | @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3441 | Words to Mrs. A.S.K. [Alma Sedonia Knobloch], spoken on 1913-04-02 | 30 | If they cannot arrange to go every Sunday, they must go every other Sunday, if not every other Sunday then once a month. | SW_v09#08 p.094 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @exhortations and counsels, @importance of community building | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3440 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Die Arbeit soll dem Menschen Selbstbewußtsein urid Würde geben. Warum raubt man ihm denn diese zwei wichtigsten Früchte | SDW v13#11 p.112 | @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @work as worship | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3439 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Haß und Unaufrichtigkeit können tödliche Seelengifte werden, erbarmende Liebe und feuriger Wahrheitsdrang | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3438 | Words spoken in 1910 | 30 | The (Holy) Spirit is encompassing and surrounding all. It is holy. It is sanctified from attachment to a special place. It is present everywhere and at every time. It exists in all places, yet is placeless. | SW_v08#08 p.098 | @The Holy Spirit, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3437 | Words to Emogene Hoagg spoken in 1914 | 30 | This is the day of happiness. In no time of any manifestation was there the cause for happiness as now. | SW_v13#05 p.102, PN_1914 p009 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3436 | Words spoken on 1914-06-12 in Tiberias | 30 | Should a black stone be placed facing the light of the sun, the signs of brilliancy would not appear | SW_v09#10 p.111-112 | @development of capacity and readiness, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @Manifestation of God as sun, @symbolism of color and light | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3435 | Words spoken on 1914-04-09 | 30 | The world and its objects are transitory. Phenomena undergo change and transformation but God and his servants | DAS.1914-04-09, SW_v07#16 p.154 | @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @love of God, @spiritual transformation, @law of transformation and change, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3434 | Words spoken in Aug. 1913 in Ramleh | 30 | When in America I repeatedly said that no one must believe one word said by another regarding any commands | SW_v11#14 p.243 | @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3433 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Für die Jugend ist das Höchste, Edelste und Beste gerade gut genug! Warum hält man denn in den meisten Kulturländern den Elementarlehrer | SDW v13#11 p.112 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3432 | Words spoken on 1914-07-01 | 30 | When I leave the world I want my heart to be assured that the Blessed Beauty has self-sacrificing servants | DAS.1914-07-01, SW_v09#12 p.135 | @courage, @firmness in the Covenant, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3431 | Words spoken on 1912-12-24 in London | 30 | Hands which have labored in the cause of education are ever blessed. I am pleased with your hands. | DAS.1912-12-24, SW_v09#08 p.089 | @education of children; moral education, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3430 | Words spoken ca. Aug. 1912 in Dublin, NH | 30 | The mature wisdom requires this. I must go everywhere and raise the call of the Kingdom. | SW_v03#15 p.004 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3429 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Lies, meine Tochter, die heiligen Bücher der Menschheit, studiere als Christin besonders das Neue Testament; zeige mir | SDW v14#01 p.007 | @justice and wrath of God, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @Christ; Christianity, @importance of reading the Sacred Writings | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3428 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 30 | Some material things have a spiritual effect. The spoken words cause a vibration | DLA.013, BLO_PN#026 | @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @the power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3427 | 30 | riches earned by personal effort with divine assistance, in various trades, agriculture and the arts, and rightly administered | SW_v07#15 p.145 | @conduct in finance and business, @promotion of commerce and industry, @agriculture, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @work as worship | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3426 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Fürehte dich nicht, sorge dich nicht, lıetze dich nicht ab für die Dinge dieser Welt! Folge stetig der Führung Gottes | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @spiritual transformation, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consolation and comfort, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3425 | 30 | I have trained Zeenat Khanum, and having confidence in her, therefore, I sent her to America | SW_v05#04 p.058 | @praise and encouragement, @exhortations and counsels, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3424 | Words spoken on 1912-05-15 in Lake Mohonk | 30 | It is very easy to come here, camp near this beautiful lake, on these charming hills, far away from everybody and deliver speeches on Universal Peace. These ideals should be spread and put in action over there, (Europe) not here in the world's most peaceful corner. | SW_v19#06 p.181 | @love and unity, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3423 | Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-04-11 | 30 | I am here to unify the religions of the world, to talk in the interest of universal peace. I have no creed to preach. I have no doctrine to propound. My word is the word of love... Do not worship the Lantern-worship the light. | SW_v19#02 p.052 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as source of love and unity, @spirit and form in the administration, @symbolism, @literal interpretation, @love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3422 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 30 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | The girl's education is of more importance today than the boy's, for she is the mother of the future race. | AIL.091 | @education of children; moral education, @equality of men and women | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3421 | Words spoken on 1914-03-07 | 30 | Whosoever desires to know the history of this cause and its tenets must come to us and not go to those who are prejudiced and biased | DAS.1914-03-07, SW_v07#04 p.027x | @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @independent investigation of truth; reality | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3420 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 30 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Every man walking in the street is free as if he were in his own kingdom. There is a great spiritual light in London. | AIL.109 | @freedom of thought and action, @praise of Western values; culture, @justice and mercy | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3419 | 30 | One is to forfeit possessions, to forfeit estates... One is to forsake relatives, station, et cetera, et cetera... Each one of these is a distinct insanity | PN_unsorted p073 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3418 | Words to Rabbi Stephen Wise, spoken on 1912-05-13 | 30 | The term religious war is a misnomer, because there can be no war where there is religion. All we have is a hollow sham, a pretence. When once we have real religion, war will cease. | APD.067 | @war and peace, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @religion as reality; definitions of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3417 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 30 | Where there is contention, there cannot be the highest conception of truth. We must have sympathy for all beings, and to have real sympathy means to feel with others in their higher aims and ideals. | AELT.128 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3416 | Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21 | 30 | Trust in God. Be kind to thy fellow-men, fill the world with the spirit of love. | DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p005 | @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @high station of the true believer, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @The Holy Spirit, @love and unity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3415 | Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London | 30 | Every object in this world has the power of combustion. The objects by themselves and in themselves will not be ignited. A flame is necessary. I hope you will become that flame to enkindle the hearts. | DAS.1912-12-23 | @fire and light; fire and water, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @being a source of light; guidance, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3414 | Words to Mr Nutt in 1912 | 30 | I have brought to you the sand, the mortar, the bricks and the stone. You must build a house here. I will crush the rocks that are in the way and you must walk over them. | PN_1912 p072 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @consultation, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3413 | Words to Mary Lucas and other pilgrims, spoken on 1905-02-03 | 30 | My heart is in a continual state of thanksgiving, and so often those accustomed to this form say the words with the lips merely | BAVA.030-031, VLAB.133x, BLO_PN#021 | @empty learning; false spirituality, @thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3412 | Words to Dr. Coles and Archdeacon Dowling, spoken on 1914-01-01 | 30 | Imagine a little lamb surrounded by a hundred thousand wolves, threatening to tear it to pieces at every moment. Were it not for the eternal vigilance of the Divine Powers, man could not live for one second. | DAS.1914-01-01 | @angels, @the concourse on high, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3411 | Words spoken on 1913-11-17 in Port Said | 30 | The believers of God must be alive with the sweet Fragrances of God. When you leave this land you must become the creational books | DAS.1913-11-17 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3410 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 30 | Severance is not poverty but freedom of the heart ... When a man's heart is free, and on fire with the love of God | BW_v13p1187 | @love of God, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3409 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-10 | 30 | The best thing for it is to accept these teachings. In this way they will gain the confidence of the whites and differences will fade. The Bahá'í teachings reveal the means of both material and spiritual progress. | AHV.010, BLO_PN#045 | @race unity; racial issues, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3408 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 30 | Yes. As in the vegetable world the best results are obtained when one kind of fruit is grafted on another, so in the human family, the best and strongest children are obtained by intermarriage between different races. | PN_1907 p018, PN_unsorted p023 | @race unity; racial issues, @marriage as means of spiritual progress, @unity in diversity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3407 | Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-25 | 30 | Yes, if they want to. They must want to and take the initiative. It is not the request of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá. These matters are left to the House of Justice which will be established before this century is out. | PN_1919 p188, LAT.136 | @House of Justice, @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3406 | Public address given on 1912-05-14 | 30 | ...It is the Holy Spirit of God which insures the safety of humanity, for human thoughts differ, human susceptibilities differ. You cannot make the susceptibilities of all humanity one except through the common channel of the Holy Spirit. | VLAB.060-061x | @The Holy Spirit, @unity in diversity, @differences in human capacity | - | - | MHMD1.101 | ||||||||||
| ABU3405 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 30 | The East and the West should unite to give to each other what is lacking in each. This exchange of gifts would form a true civilization | CHH.153, BLO_PN#022 | @unity in diversity, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @East and West; communication between East and West | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3404 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | There are two kinds of suffering, one subtle, the other gross. The subtle suffering is hatred, anger, fear, and torment | TDLA.011, BLO_PN#104 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual transformation, @martyrs and martyrdom, @justice and wrath of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3403 | Words to some Arab visitors, spoken on 1913-11-10 | 30 | The outer sacrifice of the sheep is a symbol of inner sacrifice. One must sacrifice his life, his identity, his being in the Path of God. | DAS.1913-11-10 | @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @outward and inward meanings | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3402 | Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-08 | 30 | I am always thinking how to carry the loads of others and not to put my own load on their shoulders. The Blessed Perfection has taught me this. We must prove this through deed and not by mere word. | DAS.1913-05-08, ABCC.391x | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @words vs deeds | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3401 | Words to Rev. Allen, spoken around 1909-04-12 | 30 | When you remove the causes thereof. These causes are racial, patriotic and religious bias or prejudice. This bias will be removed, and when it is removed, people will live in friendliness, kindness and love which will bring forth unity. | PN_1909 p085 | @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @race unity; racial issues | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3400 | Words to Mary MacNutt et al in 1904 | 30 | Are you happy? For only by happiness can you progress spiritually. | PN_1904 p091 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3399 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-18 | 30 | Mr Hoar is a sincere, true, upright Bahá'í. I have tested him and have not found him wanting. I have a way of testing the people which always shows their real character. Mr Hoar is a righteous, just, honest man. | DAS.1913-05-18 | @praise and encouragement, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3398 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 30 | Think not of yourselves, but think of the bounty of God. This will always make you happy. [The peacock] is contented because he never looks at his feet--which are ugly--but always at his plumage which is very beautiful. | DLA.064, BLO_PN#026 | @humor; jokes, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3397 | Words spoken on 1907-04-15 | 30 | What the people believe regarding the other side and that they receive messages from that place is not quite so, they only feel something within themselves, but they do not perceive; there is a great difference between feeling and perception. | BSTW#211a | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3396 | Words to M. R. Shirazi in April 1914 | 30 | Zoroastrians are the real Iranis. Their blood is not spoiled by the admixture of Turkish, Russian and Arab bloods. | TDAB.08-09 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3395 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-12 | 30 | I have been crying at the top of my voice all these years. Now I prefer to choose silence and listen to the melodies of the nightingales of the Paradise of Abha | DAS.1913-12-12 | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3394 | Words spoken in Jun. 1906 | 30 | Man should be intoxicated with the wine of Knowledge and drink from the Chalice of Wisdom. For this joy and exhilaration continues to Eternity. | PN_1906 p070, SUR.274, BLO_PN#001 | @spiritual transformation, @alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3393 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-11-16 | 30 | What art thou writing now? Art thou not satisfied with all that thou hast written? What dost thou do with them? No matter what I say thou art ready to make a note of it. Who has ordered thee to do this? | DAS.1914-11-16 | @stories; anecdotes, @personal instructions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3392 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-10-29 | 30 | Before entering the Sacred Shrine every one should perform ablution and be clean and pure in body, soul, mind and even his outward apparel. His heart must be purified from all worldly feelings and his consciousness be cleansed from all unholy suggestions. | DAS.1914-10-29 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3391 | Words spoken on 1914-02-18 | 30 | His aim [Andrew Carnegie's] is good and a service to the world of humanity | DAS.1914-02-18, SW_v09#03 p.035 | @love and unity, @universal peace; world unity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3390 | Words to the secretary of Sepahdar Azam, spoken on 1913-04-20 | 30 | When you return to Persia, give my greeting to the green mountains and rolling valleys, to the singing nightingales and the cooling springs, to the fragrant rose-gardens and the fresh breeze of Persia. I love them all. Remember me to them. | DAS.1913-04-20 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3389 | Words to Miss Boylan and Edith Sanderson, spoken around 1911-08-25 | 30 | When Jesus Christ came to this world, He planted a tree. I have come to see what has become of that tree. The branches are all turned toward the earth. | PN_1912 p071 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @Christ; Christianity, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3388 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-11 | 30 | The best means is to accept this Cause. All differences must fade among believers. In the present antagonism there is great danger to both races. Intermarriage is a good way to efface racial differences. | AHV.012, BLO_PN#045 | @race unity; racial issues, @laws of marriage and dowry, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3387 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23 | 30 | ...diversity is really harmony. If our food were to be all of one kind it would become monotonous. So in many ways the existence of different degrees is in reality the perfection of harmony | PN_1909F p062, PN_1909F p116, AKL.009 | @diversity of thought and belief, @unity in diversity, @differences in human capacity, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3386 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-16 | 30 | Had ye believed in Moses, ye would also believe in me'... If a king send many different rulers to govern a city | PN_1907 p019, PN_unsorted p023 | @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3385 | Words spoken in May 1911 in Ramleh | 30 | Those Prophets who are Manifestations of God, sent by God (Avatars) are of the Essence (logos) and quite untouched by the faith of disciples | PN_1911 p007 | @essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3384 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | Sow the seeds of love in the heart... By our actions we reveal what is growing in the heart. Actions are mirrors of the soul. | SW_v08#05 p.058 , PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.012, BLO_PN#104 | @goodly deeds; actions, @exhortations and counsels, @love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3383 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 30 | The best man is that person who cheers and gladdens the broken-hearted ones and the worst man is that soul who causes suffering and pain to one's heart. | DAS.1914-05-10 | @consolation and comfort, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @compassion; kindness, @saddening another soul | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3382 | Words to Dr. Coles, spoken on 1914-04-18 | 30 | religion must ever become the cause of amity and love, otherwise irreligion is better; and science at the same time must be the means of human progress and enlightenment. If science creates deadly weapons for human slaughter and destruction it is worse than ignorance. | DAS.1914-04-18 | @harmony of science and religion, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @religion as source of love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3381 | Words to Haji Amin and Daniel Jenkyn, spoken on 1912-12-29 | 30 | The language of the heart is more eloquent than the physical tongue. When two hearts are united astonishing results will be realized. But a perfect union is necessary. | DAS.1912-12-29 | @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3380 | Words to Juliet Thompson, spoken on 1912-07-18 | 30 | I wish you to teach constantly. Therein lies your happiness, and My happiness... I wish you to be detached from the entire world of existence, to turn to the Kingdom of Abha with a pure heart | SW_v07#10 p.097x, DJT.350, BLO_PN#027 | @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3379 | Words spoken ca. 1912 in the United States | 30 | What does it matter if the skin of a man is black, white, yellow, pink, or green? In this respect the animals show more intelligence than man. | DJT.284, BLO_PN#027 | @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @race unity; racial issues, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3378 | Words to Mr M in 1912 | 30 | When you pray you must not think of your aching body, nor of the birds outside the window, nor of the cracks in the wall.. When you wish to pray you must first know that you are standing in the presence of the Almighty. | VLAB.132 | @mindfulness; concentration; focus, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @presence of; reunion with God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3377 | Words to Waite, Harrison et al, spoken on 1909-10-13 | 30 | You have been taught right; it is because the mirror of your heart has been clear enough to reflect them. You must lock them in your breast. To speak of them prevents your own growth. This does not make you better than anyone else. | PN_unsorted p158 | @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3376 | Words to Waite, Harrison et al, spoken on 1909-10-12 | 30 | No it is not a physical condition, but spiritual, a very high one which is so intense it reaches the nerves and these react upon the body. When one is spiritually developed, the body responds to spiritual conditions or emotions. | PN_1909C p014, PN_unsorted p155 | @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @Mosaic imagery, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3375 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 30 | They see from their own standpoint. But these people are pure in heart and simple in spirit; therefore, though not intellectually advanced, they are capable of grasping their portion of truth, for truth is for all. | AELT.140 | @differences in human capacity, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @limits of the intellect, @universality of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3374 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-08-16 | 30 | Faith is the centre of human virtues. Through the light of faith justice is established. | DAS.1914-08-16 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3373 | Words to visitors, spoken on 1913-04-05 | 30 | Today if you teach one person it is as though you have resurrected a dead soul into life. It is as though you have changed the black stone into diamond. It is as though you have transmuted metal into gold, Satan into angel, animal into man. | DAS.1913-04-05 | @spiritual transformation, @metallurgical metaphors, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @transmutation of the soul by the divine elixir, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3372 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | There is no appointed length of life for man. Lengthen your life by living according to God's spiritual laws. Then you will live forever. | TDLA.009, BLO_PN#104 | @attaining the life of the spirit, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @spiritual transformation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3371 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 30 | Man's duty is to persevere and struggle, and to hope for God's help. Not for him to sit idly by, proud and unconcerned. | BW_v13p1187 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @effort; striving, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3370 | Words to Mr and Mrs Kinney et al, spoken on 1909-08-21 | 30 | The stars that we can see in the heavens are not one per cent of those that actually exist. Ignorant people imagine this to be the only world of existence, but there are many, very, very many world of existence, many more than we can see. | PN_1909 p063 | @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @realms of being; three realms; five realms | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3369 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | Every drop of blood shed in the Cause of God will raise up one hundred believers. Martyrdom is the supreme test of belief. | TDLA.005, BLO_PN#104 | @martyrs and martyrdom, @growth of the Cause, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3368 | Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-09 | 30 | The age of those ancient prophets as recorded in the Old Testament is symbolic. It has a spiritual interpretation. | DAS.1914-12-09, SW_v13#06 p.152x | @transcending the material condition, @literal interpretation, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3367 | Words to Mr. Wilkins, spoken on 1913-03-06 | 30 | If such is the case the future of the French Republic is fraught with great danger. It cannot stand on such atheistic foundation. | DAS.1913-03-06 | @critique of Western values; culture, @praise of Western values; culture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3366 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 30 | No. The birth of our Lord was for all; those who shall know of Him and those who shall not. The Spirit is the same everywhere... They too will be heard, and God will protect them | AELT.142 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @oneness; unity of religion, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3365 | Words to Remey and Struven in May 1910 | 30 | In movements there is life, in immobility there is death. The traveling of the teachers from place to place, from Orient to Occident, and from country to country, is one of the greatest means for spreading the Fragrances, and for sowing spiritual seeds in the soul of the people. | PN_unsorted p058 | @pioneering; travel teaching, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3364 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | Know this—that the Revelation of Bahá‘u'lláh is the Word of God. There will not be a home which does not contain a believer. | TDLA.007, BLO_PN#104 | @entry by troops, @growth of the Cause, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3363 | 30 | I seemed to be standing within a great mosque, in the inmost shrine, facing the Qiblih, in the place of the Imam himself | GPB.310x, PAB.002 | @accounts of dreams and visions, @symbolism, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3362 | 30 | Bahá'í Scriptures | But where thousands are considering these questions, we have more essential questions. The secrets of the whole economic question are divine in nature, and are concerned with the world of the heart and spirit. In the Bahá'í teaching this is most completely explained | BSC.446.12 #812x, SW_v13#09 p.231 | @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @elections | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3361 | 30 | You can best serve your country if you strive, in your capacity as a citizen of the world, to assist in the eventual application of the principle of federalism underlying the government of your own country to the relationships now existing between the peoples and nations of the world | ADJ.088x, WOB.037x, VLAB.100 | @nationalism; love of country, @unity of governments; political unity, @universal peace; world unity, @means of establishment of future civilization | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3360 | Words spoken ca. June. 1921 | 30 | I ever pray on her behalf and beg from God His divine remedy and healing. As in this Dispensation consultation with expert doctors | COC#1043x, SW_v12#07 p.134 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3359 | Words to Mr Remey, spoken on 1914-10-14 | 30 | What is necessary is divine joy. Divine happiness is the speaker of the heart. | DAS.1914-10-14, SW_v13#04 p.102, PN_1914 p009, PN_1914 p082 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3358 | Words spoken on 1914-08-17 | 30 | I cannot understand why people insist on the fact that one cannot give up a thing | DAS.1914-08-17, SW_v08#02 p.021 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3357 | Words spoken on 1914-05-26 in Tiberias | 30 | Concerning my power: it is one bestowal of the bestowals of His Holiness Baha'o'llah | DAS.1914-05-26, SW_v08#15 p.211 | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3356 | Words spoken on 1912-12-15 in Liverpool | 30 | Water flowing from one spring has more force and energy than if the same water is divided between | DAS.1912-12-15, SW_v08#02 p.021 | @praise and encouragement, @love and unity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3355 | Words spoken in Jul. 1912 in the United States | 30 | The point to which all eyes should turn is One. All eyes must turn their attention | SW_v08#14 p.189, SW_v11#14 p.239 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @firmness in the Covenant, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3354 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-10 | 30 | No, some games are innocent, and if pursued for pastime there is no harm. But there is danger that pastime may degenerate | SW_v08#02 p.025-026x, AHV.009, BLO_PN#045 | @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @gambling and games of chance, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3353 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Die Gesegnete Vollkommenheit Bahá'u'lláh lehrt, der Mensch -- jeder Mensch -- hat ein Anrecht auf Friede, Freiheit, Freude und Arbeit | SDW v13#11 p.112 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @work as worship, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @true liberty; freedom | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3352 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Gottes Führung will uns von der Willkür unserer Sínnlichkeit, von der tollen Eigenmächtigkeit unseres Willens, von der Last unseres kleingläubigen Sorgengeistes | SDW v13#10 p.104 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @free will and predestination; fate, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3351 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | lm Diesseits und Jenseits haben wir Bahá'I nur ein Ziel: für das Reich Gottes (Malekut-Allah) zu leben und zu wirken | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @soul; spirit after death, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3350 | Words spoken at Hotel Ansonia in New York, 1912-04-18 | 30 | Assuredly, give to the poor. If you give them only words, when they put their hands into their pockets after you have gone, they will find themselves none the richer for you! | DJT.266, BLO_PN#027 | @humor; jokes, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @words vs deeds, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3349 | 30 | The duty of educated men, especially university presidents of the nation, is this: To teach in the universities and schools ideas concerning universal peace, so that the student may be so molded that in after years he may help carry to fruition the most useful and human issue of mankind. | SW_v15#01 p.037, SW_v16#07 p.600 | @education of children; moral education, @war and peace, @high station of learning, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3348 | 30 | In the world of existence there is no power as efficacious and as penetrative as the power of love. | SW_v05#10 p.154 | @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @war and peace, @power of love | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3347 | Words spoken on 1913-08-24 in Ramleh | 30 | As regards free will. There are two distinct kinds of affairs, the first dominated by man, the second which is beyond his control | DAS.1913-08-24, ABIE.233, BLO_PN#007 | @free will and predestination; fate | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3346 | Words spoken at Higher Thought center, 1911-11-01 | 30 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | ...it matters not what name each calls himself -- The Great Work is One. Christ is ever in the world of existence | AIL.040, BSTW#207c | @oneness; unity of religion, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @Christ; Christianity, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3345 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 30 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | There is but one power which heals -- that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes | AIL.095, SW_v08#18 p.233 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @inmost heart [fu'ád], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3344 | 30 | It was during the closing days of the Blessed Beauty, when I was engaged in gathering together His papers | GPB.310-311x | @Ascension of Baha'u'llah, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3343 | 30 | Although Abdu'l-Baha considers himself as a drop, yet this drop is connected with the Most Great Sea. | SW_v08#15 p.211 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3342 | 30 | One night I was so hemmed in by My anxieties that I had no other recourse than to recite and repeat | GPB.275-276x, VLAB.029 | @importance of prayer, @power of prayer, @business; financial; property matters | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3341 | 30 | The most advisable thing, therefore, is to ... discuss "Pure and sanctified Living" | SW_v14#02 p.060 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @methods of teaching the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3340 | 30 | It is not the body which feels pain or trouble but the soul. If we have a pain in our arm the defect | SW_v08#18 p.230 | @relationship of the soul to the body, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @the human soul | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3339 | Words to Fugeta, Dr. Esslemont et al, spoken around 1920-12-15 | 30 | The Holy Spirit was always with Christ... It was hidden from others, but manifest to him. The story about the dove is simply a metaphor... From childhood it was apparent to him | LOG#1642x, SW_v14#09 p.274, PN_1919 p037 | @The Holy Spirit, @innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God, @John the Baptist, @literal interpretation, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3338 | Words spoken on 1913-08-05 in Ramleh | 30 | it is necessary for the rich to think of the poor during the month of Ramadan. Those souls who prefer themselves to others are tied with selfish iron bands, while those who prefer others to themselves are the benefactors of the human race. Such was the conduct and the life of Baha-Ullah. | DAS.1913-08-05, ABIE.159, BLO_PN#007 | @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @business; financial; property matters, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others, @law of fasting | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3337 | Words to Remey and Struven in 1910 | 30 | The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar must have nine sides, doors, fountains, paths, gateways, columns and gardens | SW_v02#01 p.002, BW_v01p060x | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3336 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 30 | In the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar services will be held every morning. There will be no organ in the Temple. In buildings nearby | DLA.014x, BNE.188, BLO_PN#026x | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @music and singing, @harmony of science and religion, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3335 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | The disciples of Jesus, passing along the road and seeing a dead dog, remarked how offensive and disgusting | SW_v09#18 p.211, TDLA.103, TOR.170, BLO_PN#104 | @exhortations and counsels, @stories; anecdotes, @apostles; early disciples of Christ | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3334 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 30 | Spirituality is the possession of a good, pure heart. When the heart is pure | SW_v07#18 p.177, TDLA.018, BLO_PN#104 | @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @the human soul, @knowledge of self, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3333 | Words spoken on 1914-02-24 | 30 | When a person's life is purely moral, when his daily actions are propelled by ethical forces he will influence | DAS.1914-02-24, SW_v07#18 p.184 | @the power of example, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3332 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Die richtigen, wahren Bahá'i sind die Schauenden, die Erkennenden, die Wissenden; ihre vornehmste Aufgabe ist, daß sie von der Gnade der Erkenntnis | SDW v14#01 p.008 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @love and unity, @material world a reflection of the spiritual | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3331 | Words to Mr McCarthy, spoken on 1912-10-06 | 30 | I am the lover of all the friends of God -- from the heart and soul I love them. This will become manifest. | ECN.481+707+814 | @words vs deeds, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3330 | 30 | Every morning when I awoke I praised God there was another day to serve Him in His prison. | SW_v13#05 p.102 | @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @praise and encouragement, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @thankfulness; gratitude, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3329 | Words spoken on 1914-10-17 in Haifa | 30 | The best capital and the most profitable business is honesty in all things. Do thou continue to be honest in thy dealings | DAS.1914-10-17, SW_v08#02 p.025 | @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @conduct in finance and business, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3328 | Words spoken on 1914-06-21 | 30 | In an Arabic poem the Blessed Perfection said about the calamities and allegations | DAS.1914-06-21, SW_v08#13 p.178 | @suffering and imprisonment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @praise and encouragement, @prayer for tests and difficulties | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3327 | Words spoken on 1914-01-27 | 30 | We were commanded by Baha'o'llah to assist all the communities without the exclusion | DAS.1914-01-27, SW_v08#11 p.140 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3326 | Words spoken on 1913-07-30 in Ramleh | 30 | No one can imagine how many different issues must be met….I am now advanced in age. The reaction of this long journey has had a terrible effect upon my weakened constitution… | DAS.1913-07-30, ABIE.128, BLO_PN#007 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3325 | Words spoken in 1912 in the United States | 30 | In future a manufacturer will not be allowed to leave all his property to his own family. A law will be made something like this | SW_v08#01 p.011 | @law of inheritance, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3324 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 30 | Die Jugend will ein großes Betätigungsfeld vor sich sehen -- heißt sie -- die Bahá'i-Lehre über die ganze Erde tragen | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @humor; jokes, @stories; anecdotes | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3323 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 30 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | By putting the teaching into practice power will be given. You know which path to follow | AIL.064 | @things are known by their opposites, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3322 | Words spoken on 1913-01-12 in London | 30 | Persian | بدرجهئ‌یکه جمیع بهائیان شرق بجهت ترویج صلح جان میدهند بیست هزار نفر خود را فدای امر صلح | To the extent that all the Baha'is of the East are ready to give up their lives in their efforts to promote peace. Twenty thousand souls have sacrificed themselves | BDA2.079 | MHMD2.095 | @critique of Eastern values; culture, @critique of Western values; culture | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3321 | Words to a Rabbi, spoken on 1912-11-09 | 30 | Persian | هر گاه این امم رؤسای یکدیگر را به عزت یاد نمایند جمیع ذلتها و جدالها از میان برخیزد بجای نفرت الفت و بجای عداوت و بیگانگی محب و یگانگی حاصل شود مقصد من اینست | Whenever these people mention each other's leaders with due reverence then all sufferings and contentions shall cease | BDA1.362.04 | MHMD1.381 | @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @oneness; unity of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3320 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-10-24 | 30 | Persian | هر روزی امری مؤید است و هر وقتی مقصدی مقتضی امروز تبلیغ امر الله و نشر تعالیم الهیه جاذب تأییدات غیبیه است وقت تخم افشانیست و القآء کلمهٴ الهی | Every day confirmations surround some specific pursuit and every hour has a purpose decreed for it. Today, teaching the Cause of God | BDA1.329.13 | MHMD1.348 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @the power of words; of speech, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3319 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-05-13 | 30 | Persian | هر چه ما میگوئیم بندهٴخد‌ا عبدالبها هستیم باز مردم ما را باسم پیغمبر | Although I say always that I am ‘Abdu'l-Baha, a servant of God, still people refer to me as a messenger and a prophet. It would be better if they would not attribute such titles to me. | BDA1.093.07 | SW_v19#06 p.180, MHMD1.100 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3318 | Public address given on 1912-08-08 | 30 | Persian | هر چه تربیت ظاهری بیشتر شود مسابقهٴ در تعدیات زیادتر می شود اما تربیت روحانی سبب مسابقهٴ در اعمال خیریه و کمالات انسانیه است امیدواریم که ازین تعدیات کاسته و روز بروز بر کمالات روحانیه افزوده شود | The more material education advances, the more competitive is the race in aggression and injustice. But spiritual education is the cause of competition in praiseworthy actions | BDA1.183.06 | SW_v19#12 p.379, MHMD1.199 | @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @goodly deeds; actions, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3317 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-11 | 30 | Persian | هر چند نسآء با رجال در استعداد قواء شریکند ولی شبهه نیست که رجال اقدمند و اقوی حتی در حیوانات مانند کبوتران | Although women are equal to men in abilities and capacities, there is no doubt that men are bolder and physically more powerful | BDA1.153.07 | SW_v19#10 p.309, MHMD1.166 | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3316 | Words spoken at Hearst estate in Pleasanton, 1912-10-13 | 30 | Persian | هر امر عمومی الهی است و هر امر خصوصی بشری لهذا خدمات و زحمات نفوس اگر مفید بحال عموم | Every universal matter is from God; and limitations are from man. | BDA1.309.07 | MHMD1.326 | @Word of God and human limitations, @universality of the Cause, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3315 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-14 | 30 | Persian | نغمات و اصوات در تلاوت آیات و مناجات نظم و نهر باید باشد ولی در امور غیر منصوص من مداخله نمیکنم | Singing and chanting of scripture and prayers in verse or in prose should be used but I do not interfere in matters not expressly stated in the Text. | AVK4.152.04, YHA2.863a, BDA1.373.13 | MHMD1.392 | @House of Justice, @music and singing, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3314 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-23 | 30 | Persian | نظر بمکان نیست بلکه بوجود و قلوب نورانیه احباست در بغداد اطاقی کوچک ثلث این اطاق بود | It is not the place that should be looked at but the illumined faces and hearts of the friends | BDA1.133.07 | SW_v19#08 p.256, MHMD1.143 | @banishment to; life in Baghdad | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3313 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-05-30 | 30 | Persian | من مبین آیات جمال مبارکم و منصوص قلم اعلی کل باید اطاعت نمایند جمیع امور | I am the interpreter of the Writings of the Blessed Beauty, as explicitly designated by the Supreme Pen. | BDA1.111.05 | MHMD1.118 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @House of Justice | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3312 | Words to Mr Newman, spoken on 1914-06-10 | 30 | I pray that God may aid your journeys and that you may return to America with the utmost happiness and safety. | DAS.1914-06-10, SW_v09#10 p.110-111 | @prayers (general or uncategorized), @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3311 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-01 | 30 | Persian | من از سن سی سالگی نبضم مطئی است هر کس دیگر باشد ٧٥ - ٨٠ خواهد بود | From the age of 30 I have had a slow pulse. All others have a pulse rate of about 75 to 80 and therefore greatly wonder about my pulse rate. | KHH1.269 (1.376) | KHHE.393, DAS.1914-12-01, BSR_v13 p.084 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3310 | Words spoken on 1915-07-21 in Haifa | 30 | Persian | مردم بر سنگهائی که حواریین برآن نشسته بودند سجده می کردند و این از اثر نسبت الی الله و از قوهٴ بقای حقیقت آنها است که حتی جلوسشان بر سنگ این تأثیر را دارد | The people prostrated themselves before the stones whereon the apostles had been seated, and this proceedeth from their connection with God and from the potency of their enduring reality, such that even their mere act of sitting upon a stone hath produced such an effect [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-07-21 | @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @power of faith; power of the spirit | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3309 | Words spoken on 1912-08-20 in Green Acre | 30 | Persian | مادام مظاهر الهیه بین خلق هستند و مثل این خیمه نشنینان بیرون گرین عکا شیدا میشود حتی کلمبوس | While the Manifestations of God are still alive, the people do not appreciate their value, they curse and execrate them; but after their ascension they worship them. | BDA1.199.09 | SW_v19#11 p.349, MHMD1.215 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3308 | Words spoken on 1912-12-20 in London | 30 | Persian | گریه مکن مویه منما فریاد بر میار اشک از دیده مبار سُرور و حُزن دنیا هر دو در گذر است و عزت و ذلت آن هر دو فانی | Do not cry or lament! Do not wail or let tears rain from your eyes! The happiness and sorrow of this world last only for a time, and its glory and abasement are both fleeting | BDA2.032 | MHMD2.038 | @consolation and comfort, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3307 | Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-09-04 | 30 | Persian | عظمت تعالیم حضرت بهآءالله وقتی معلوم می شود که بموقع عمل و اجرا آید هنوز از صد یکی اجرا نشده | The greatness of the teachings of Baha'u'llah will be known when they are acted upon and practiced. | BDA1.226.08 | MHMD1.242 | @exhortations and counsels, @goodly deeds; actions, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3306 | Words spoken on 1913-10-16 in Ramleh | 30 | The Chinese civilization is very old, and hoary with age. Once they start on the right path, they will reach their destination very quickly. | DAS.1913-10-16 | @praise of Eastern values; culture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3305 | Words to Mr Maxwell and others, spoken on 1912-09-06 | 30 | Persian | شماها باید بآنچه سبب آسایش عالم انسانی است تشبث نمائید یتیمها را نوازش کنید گرسنه ها را سیر نمائید | You must cling to those things which prove to be the cause of happiness for the world of man. You must show kindness to the orphans | BDA1.231.02 | SW_v19#12 p.381, MHMD1.247 | @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3304 | Words spoken on 1912-09-22 in Lincoln | 30 | Persian | شعاع ظلمانی بالصراحه بپدرش نوشته که من در صدد تحصیل پول و متاع دنیوی هستم | Shu'a of darkness wrote to his father quite openly that his purpose was to amass wealth and worldly property | BDA1.262.08 | MHMD1.281 | @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3303 | Words spoken on 1914-12-16 in Julis | 30 | Persian | رؤیا بر سه قسم است رؤیای صادقه، رؤیای تعبیریه و اضغاث و احلام. اول عین واقع، دوم چون مخلوط با خطورات قلبیه می شود محتاج تعبیر است، اما اضغاث و احلام اوهام است | Visions are of three kinds: true visions, interpretive visions, and confused dreams. The first is reality itself, the second, being mingled with the heart's promptings, requireth interpretation, while confused dreams are but vain imaginings [3.5s] | ZSM.1914-12-16 | @meaning; importance of dreams and visions | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3302 | Words to the editor of the Police Journal, spoken on 1912-09-17 | 30 | Persian | روزنامه باید اول وسیلهٴ الفت بین نفوس باشد این اعظم وظائف صاحبان جرائد است که سوء تفاهم | A newspaper must in the first instance be the means of creating harmony among the people. | BDA1.252.04 | MHMD1.270, ABCC.273 | @newspapers and the media; publications, @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3301 | Words to the Master's entourage(?), spoken on 1912-07-06 | 30 | Persian | در طبیعت انسان باید طلب صعود باشد نه نزول هوای زیر زمین حبس است رفتن از راه بالا بهتر بود | In man's nature there must be a desire to ascend and not to descend. The underground air is suffocating. | BDA1.147.14 | MHMD1.159 | @spiritual transformation, @transcending the material condition, @law of burial and cremation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3300 | Words spoken on 1913-01-15 in London | 30 | Persian | خدا چه عزتی بما ایرانیان عنایت فرمود چه آفت??ب بزرگی و سعادتی از افق مشرق زمین طالع | What conspicuous glory has God deigned to bestow upon us Persians! How great is this prosperity, which is even as a mighty sun | BDA2.086 | MHMD2.104 | @chastisement and requital, @past, present and future of Iran, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3299 | Words spoken ca. 1904 | 30 | Persian | حقیقتش این است که خوردن حیوانی شایسته نیست اما انسان خود را بی جهت مبتلی کرده و عادی | The truth is that it is not befitting for man to be carnivorous. However, man has accustomed himself to such a life | KNSA.197-198 | MNYA.274 | @acting according to the exigencies of the day; pragmatism, @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3298 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 30 | Persian | حالا اگر احبای الهی بهمان حدیث اول یعنی به یکی از الواح جمال قدم جل جلاله عامل باشند | Now if the beloved ones of God would act in accordance with that first tradition, namely, one of the Tablets of the Ancient Beauty, may His glory be exalted [3.5s] | KHMT.074-075 | @exhortations and counsels | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3297 | Words spoken on 1913-01-12 in London | 30 | Persian | در این امر جمعیّت بشر یک عائله و کرّهٴ ارض یکوطن است | In this Cause, all humanity is regarded as a single family, and the whole earth accounted as one country | BDA2.080 | MHMD2.097 | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3296 | Answer to questions, Dublin, 1912-08-08 | 30 | Persian | جمیع حقایق و ارواح باقیست حتی ارواح غیر مومنین و نفوس ناقصه اما نسبت بارواح | All realities and spirits are immortal, even the spirits of non-believers and imperfect persons. | BQA.080-081, BDA1.182.16 | SW_v19#12 p.378, MHMD1.198 | @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual transformation, @existence; immortality of the human soul | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3295 | Words spoken on 1913-01-23 in Paris | 30 | Persian | جمیع این اهالی غرق دنیا هستند و عمارات شهر مثل خانه‌های زنبور و مردم متصل مشغول ساختن | All the inhabitants of this city are immersed in this world, and its buildings resemble the hives of bees | BDA2.102 | MHMD2.124 | @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @symbolism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3294 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-10 | 30 | Persian | جمال مبارک بعد از دارالسلام و ادرنه در محفل عمومی نطق نفرمودند | The Blessed Beauty did not make any more public speeches after leaving Baghdad and Adrianople | BDA1.119.10 | SW_v19#07 p.218-219, MHMD1.127 | @banishment to; life in Adrianople, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @the power of words; of speech, @banishment to; life in 'Akka | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3293 | Words to the friends spoken in Dec. 1907 | 30 | Persian | جمال مبارک بساط وحدت عالم انسانی گسترانیده و اختلافات مذهبی و طبقاتی را مرتفع ساخته | The Blessed Beauty has provided the means for the unification of the world of humanity and has removed religious and social conflicts. | KHH1.013 (1.018) | KHHE.030 | @oneness; unity of religion, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3292 | 30 | Persian | جمال مبارک از چهار چیز خوششان میآید | The Blessed Beauty often remarked: 'There are four qualities which I love to see manifested in people: first, enthusiasm and courage | YIK.304-305, ZIAB1.065 | STOB.051 #060 | @praise and encouragement, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance, @effort; striving | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3291 | Words spoken at Hearst estate in Pleasanton, 1912-10-14 | 30 | Persian | ترانا یا الهی مجتمعین علی هذه المائدة شاکرین لنعمتک ناظرین الی ملکوتک | Thou seest us, O my God, gathered around this table, praising Thy bounty, with our gaze set upon Thy Kingdom. | AVK4.070, MAS5.256, BDA1.310.01 | MHMD1.327, ABCC.308 | @prayer to be recited at table, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @thankfulness; gratitude, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3290 | Words spoken on 1915-04-18 in Haifa | 30 | Persian | بیت العدل مقام تشریع دارد و آنچه منصوص نیست تشریع نماید و تنفیذی نیست . در ایالات مختلفه انتخابات می شود و بیت عدل تشکیل شود و مرکز را بصلاح دید خود معین خواهند کرد | The House of Justice possesseth legislative authority, and that which hath not been expressly revealed may be legislated by it, and is not revocable. Elections shall be held in diverse provinces, and the House of Justice shall be established, and they shall determine the center thereof according to their own wisdom [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-04-18 | @House of Justice, @elections | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3289 | Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-04 | 30 | I was most happy to see the believers of Germany so holy, so pure and so united | DAS.1913-04-04, SW_v04#09 p.162 | @praise and encouragement, @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3288 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-19 | 30 | We must try to return very soon to Haifa. There upon the mountain all alone, pray and supplicate with God. There one finds the ecstasy of spiritual bliss. Supplication, invocation, prayer, inspiration. | DAS.1913-03-19 | @mystical themes, @Shrines and Holy places, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3287 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1912-04-01 | 30 | Persian | آنچه در زمین اسباب حمل و نقل آلات و اسباب حرب و قتال ساخته اند در هوا نیز چنان خواهند | Those who have provided the means for transporting arms and ammunition and the instruments of wars and massacres on earth will do so in the air. | BDA1.020.01 | MHMD1.027 | @predictions and prophecies, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @war and peace, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3286 | Words to Counsel Schwartz, spoken on 1913-04-04 | 30 | There will be a general war between the European powers and Germany of course will take a prominent part. Bahá'u'lláh has predicted a war between Germany and France and this will be fulfilled! | DAS.1913-04-04 | @predictions and prophecies, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @prophecy and fulfillment, @war and peace | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3285 | Words spoken at German hostel in Tiberias, 1916-08-28 | 30 | Persian | اینها قلبشان از رحمت الهی مأیوس است لابدند که خود را به یک چیزی تسلی دهند، اینست که به فسق و فجور مشغول می شوند | These souls, whose hearts are bereft of divine mercy, have no recourse but to console themselves through some means; thus do they engage in deeds of wickedness and transgression [3.5s] | ZSM.1916-08-28 | @stories; anecdotes, @humor; jokes | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3284 | Words spoken on 1912-12-25 in London | 30 | Persian | اینمسئلهٴ دیگر است و مجازات و مکافات سبب نظام عالم مثلاً اگر کسی اینجا بیاید | This is a different matter altogether. Indeed, reward and punishment constitute the basis of order in this world | BDA2.041 | MHMD2.049 | @murder; causing physical harm, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @reward and punishment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3283 | Words spoken on 1913-02-06 in Paris | 30 | Persian | این عصر عصر دیگر است و اقتضای آن اقتضای دیگر احکام عصر سابق این قرن عظیم را کفایت نکند | this is a new era with unprecedented exigencies… the laws of a former age will not suffice this momentous century… the spiritual laws--which is to say secondary religious laws--must be renewed, and divine truths revitalized | BDA2.123 | MHMD2.153 | @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @changing and unchanging parts of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3282 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-04-24 | 30 | Persian | ای بهآءالله چه کرده ئی ای بهآءالله بقربانت ای بهآءالله بفدایت ایام را بچه مشقت و بلا گذرانیدی | O Baha'u'llah! What hast Thou done? O Baha'u'llah! May my life be sacrificed for Thee! | BDA1.049.04 | GPB.293x, SW_v19#03 p.089, MHMD1.057 | T. Price, Zannetta [track 12], L. Slott | @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @growth of the Cause, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||
| ABU3281 | Words to the Master's entourage(?), spoken on 1912-06-02 | 30 | Persian | اول حین ورود بکلیسا حالت صحبت نداشتم اما چون در مقابل آن جمعیت عظیم ایستادم | At the time of my arrival at the church I was in no condition to speak; but when I stood before this great gathering I found the atmosphere of the church filled with the Holy Spirit and so a state of wonderful happiness and joy came over me. | BDA1.112.11 | SW_v19#06 p.184, MHMD1.119 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @unity in diversity, @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3280 | 30 | Persian | انسان باید از میوههایی که در محل سکونت و اقامتش موجود است | Man must partake of such fruits as are to be found in the place of his habitation and dwelling [3.5s] | YIK.300, ZIAB2.088 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3279 | 30 | Persian | البته کارکنان چون در کارخانه با کمپانی شرکت حاصل نمایند از قبل خود نفوسی برای مشورت انتخاب خواهند کرد و یقین است آنکه مایه بیشتر سهم بیشتر دارد | Verily, when workers establish partnership with the company in the factory, they shall of their own accord choose souls for consultation, and it is certain that whoso possesseth a greater portion shall have a greater share [3.5s] | AVK4.346.02 | @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3278 | Words spoken on 1913-08-10 in Ramleh | 30 | If these Tablets do not stir and move the hearts out of their sleep and do not spur them to insatiable activity, they are harder than stones | DAS.1913-08-10, ABIE.177, BLO_PN#007 | @praise and encouragement, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3277 | Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03 | 30 | If a soul is not severed, if he is not pure and holy, if he is not thoughtful of others.. No one can say he is a Bahá'í. | DAS.1913-12-03 | @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @attaining the life of the spirit, @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3276 | Words spoken on 1914-11-24 in Abu Sinan | 30 | Persian | اگر ناقضین گذاشته بودند من بعضی از روسای اسلام و مسیحی راجمع میکردم | If the Covenant-breakers had not frustrated my efforts, I would have assembled some of the Muslim and Christian chiefs | KHH1.297 (1.409) | KHHE.429, BSR_v13 p.085 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @oneness; unity of religion, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3275 | Words spoken at Hotel Schenley in Pittsburgh, 1912-05-07 | 30 | Persian | اگر مدخل امراض را بدانند و اعتدال عناصر را میزان گیرند در هر عنصری | If one is fully cognizant of the reason for the incursion of disease and can determine the balance of elements | BDA1.075.x | SW_v19#05 p.141, MHMD1.084 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @four elements, @principle of balance; moderation; equilibrium | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3274 | Words spoken at home of Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, 1912-04-24 | 30 | Persian | اکثر صنایع مهمه از همین راه اختراع شده مانند طالب کیمیا که سبب ظهور هزارها ادویه مفیده گشته | Yes, most of the great inventions were made in a similar way. For instance, the search for alchemy has brought into being thousands of useful medicines and the desire of finding a direct route to India from Europe became the cause of the discovery of America | BDA1.050.16 | SW_v19#03 p.089, MHMD1.059 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @alchemy; the elixir, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3273 | Words spoken on 1913-01-29 in Paris | 30 | Persian | از جمیع جهات ابواب مسدود است و راه نجات مقطوع مگر بقوهٴ معنویه و تأییدات غیبیه | The doors are closed on every side, and the way to salvation is barred, unless one is aided with spiritual power | BDA2.111 | MHMD2.136-137 | @development of capacity and readiness, @power of the Manifestation of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3272 | Words spoken at the Shrine of the Bab, 1913-12-06 | 30 | Persian | ابداً جائز نیست سجود بجهتی جائز نیست سجود بنص کتاب الله مخصوص مقام اعلی | Prostration, according to the explicit text of the Book of God, is confined to the Shrine of the Bab, the Shrine of Baha'u'llah and the Holy House. | BDA2.373 | MHMD2.500-501 | @law of pilgrimage, @Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3271 | Words to Aqay-i-Taqizadeh spoken around Dec. 1911 | 40 | In principle, we prefer freedom as it is one of the divine blessings and pleases God. However, this is not because freedom helps with the diffusion and propagation of our Cause, as it is the opposite — namely, our Cause grows better in a repressive environment. | BLO_PN#005 | @true liberty; freedom, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3270 | Words to a friend of Mrs. Struven, spoken on | 40 | When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá writes tablets, he is calling the souls to a station which they are potentially able to attain. I does not mean that they have attained that station at the time of the writing. | SW_v09#05 p.062 | @differences in human capacity, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3269 | 40 | If a person desires to work for the progress of the world of humanity he must turn his face to the Kingdom of Abha | SW_v13#06 p.132 | @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @call to action, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @material world a reflection of the spiritual | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3268 | 40 | Bahá'í Scriptures | All the believers, both men and women, in the West and in the East, must consider themselves the spreaders | BSC.548 #991 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @light and darkness, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3267 | Words to Albert Vail | 40 | We do not oppose the religion of anyone. We act in accordance with the Gospel. But we must also act | SW_v13#09 p.218 | @independent investigation of truth; reality, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @Christ; Christianity, @oneness; unity of religion, @exhortations and counsels | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3266 | Words to Lua Getsinger in June 1912 | 40 | I appoint you, Lua, the Herald of the Covenant. And I am the Covenant, appointed by Bahá’u’lláh. | DJT.313, BLO_PN#027 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @firmness in the Covenant | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3265 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | ...these rappings, etc., were all material things, and of the body. What is needed is to rise above the material | AIL.072 | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @soul; spirit after death, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3264 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-06 | 40 | The spiritual food is the principal food, ... the effect of the spiritual food is eternal | SW_v08#08 p.103, PN_1909 p011, PN_1909 p040, PN_1909B p021, PN_1909C p090, DJT.061, BLO_PN#027 | @material and spiritual existence; two books | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3263 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 40 | Any movement that is for the benefit of mankind should be joined by the Bahá'ís. If they are not asked to help, they should offer their services | DLA.065, BLO_PN#026 | @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @universality of the Cause, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3262 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | Spirit is universal. Man is created spirit in a potential degree. Growth is from a mental into a spiritual station | SW_v14#01 p.009, TDLA.006, BLO_PN#104 | @spiritual transformation, @free will and predestination; fate, @the human soul, @love of God, @love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3261 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | Bahá'í Scriptures | Fruit and grains. The time will come when meat will no longer be eaten. | COC#1052x, LOG#1009x, BSC.453 #830x, PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.008-009, BLO_PN#104 | @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3260 | 40 | Be thou resolute and steadfast. When the tree is firmly rooted it will bear fruit | SW_v08#19 p.239 | @spiritual transformation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @consolation and comfort | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3259 | Words spoken at Persian embassy in New York, 1912-04-23 | 40 | If all the spirits of the air were to congregate together they could not create a salad! | SW_v12#07 p.135+137-140, SW_v12#08 p.145-172, DJT.270, FDA.014, BLO_PN#027 | @humor; jokes, @the human soul, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @the mind's power of discovery | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3258 | 40 | Gradually racial prejudices will be dispelled. There will come a day when the German will say to the Frenchman, 'I am a Frenchman' | SW_v14#08 p.242 | @predictions and prophecies, @race unity; racial issues, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3257 | 40 | Another characteristic of progress consists in the earnest and sincere development of public education | SW_v07#15 p.137 | @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @universal education, @promotion of commerce and industry | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3256 | Words spoken on 1913-08-24 in Ramleh | 40 | It has reached to such a point that if some of the friends want to cough or sneeze they write me to do it for them; thinking it too much trouble! I have repeatedly written that any feasible plan which has for its aim the spread of the Cause is agreeable. | DAS.1913-08-24, ABIE.231, BLO_PN#007 | @humor; jokes | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3255 | Words spoken on 1913-07-26 in Ramleh | 40 | I am not feeling well, even in Ramleh, but for the present I will not move to any other place, no matter what may happen. I have finished all my work. I have nothing else to do. | DAS.1913-07-26, ABIE.115, BLO_PN#007 | @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3253 | Words spoken on 1912-06-12 in New York | 40 | To pray is not to read Psalms. To pray is to trust in God, and to be submissive in all things to Him... Strong ships are not conquered by the sea,--they ride the waves. | SW_v08#03 p.038, DJT.305, FDA.028, ABCC.214, VLAB.115-116, BLO_PN#027 | @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3252 | Words to Percy Woodcock in Ramleh, ca. Mar. 1911 | 40 | I have a few friends in different cities who love Me.... When you return to America, call together those sincere souls who have asked this question | SW_v02#03 p.007 | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @freedom of thought and action, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3251 | Words to a Japanese friend, spoken on 1912-10-13 | 40 | I wish you would become heavenly and not Japanese nor Arab, English, Persian, Turk, and American. You would become divine | ECN.542 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @universality of the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3250 | Words to Mr. Reed, spoken on 1912-10-08 | 40 | Yes. There are the accessories of the temple. There will also be two universities; but the school, as an accessory of the Mashrak-ul-Azkar will not be as large | ECN.520+629+664+1022 | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3249 | Words spoken ca. 1911 in London | 40 | They see all as it affects the spirit. A great joy, a great sorrow, a sin, or a good deed: as these things darken or cloud the soul | SAS.105-106 | @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @angels, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3248 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | It is just like a miracle, our being here together. There is no racial, political or patriotic tie. | AIL.105 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3247 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 40 | Unser Verhältnis zu Gott, dem Herrn, muß auf zwei Grundpfeilern ruhen: williges Unterordnen des eigenen Willens unter den Göttlichen und Aufrichtigkeit | SDW v13#11 p.112 | @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @knowledge; recognition of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3246 | 40 | There shall not be any separation among the believers because Baha'u'llah has appointed the House of Justice to be the authority | SW_v12#18 p.280 | @House of Justice | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3245 | 40 | The time will come in the near future when humanity will become so much more sensitive than at present | SW_v08#01 p.004-005 | @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3244 | Words spoken on 1914-05-17 in Tiberias | 40 | The body of man is created for this world but his heart is made for the habitation of the Holy Spirit. | DAS.1914-05-17, SW_v08#08 p.103-104 | @mindfulness; concentration; focus, @work as worship, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3243 | Words spoken on 1914-03-07 | 40 | The Bible and the Gospels are most honored in the estimation of all Bahais. One of the spiritual utterances | DAS.1914-03-07, SW_v07#04 p.027x, SW_v14#02 p.055x, BSTW#207b | @Christ; Christianity, @importance of reading the Sacred Writings, @study; deepening | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3242 | Words spoken in Jul. 1912 in the United States | 40 | The Essence of Divinity--God--is sanctified above ascent, descent, and appearance. The lights of His qualities are manifest or reflected in the mirrors of the hearts of His Holy Manifestations.... It means the transference or transformation of created bodies into infinite forms of creation. Every indivisible electron is transformed into all the forms of creatures and everything travels or moves in everything. | SW_v19#10 p.309 | @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3241 | Words to Carl F. Smith, spoken on 1912-04-12 | 40 | It is so good to come into your home!... Now this is as it should be. Here am I a Persian, and you an American.... My beloved Mount Carmel! | SW_v14#04 p.117-119 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3240 | 40 | Baha'u'llah established Christ in the East. He has praised Christ, honored Christ, exalted Him | BSTW#207c | @Christ; Christianity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3239 | Interview with W.H. Randall, Haifa, 1919-11-18 | 40 | Don't forget this, that this is a Universal Temple--advertise it so; announce that this is for all and every religion | PN_1919 p016 | @elections, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @universality of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3238 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-28 | 40 | I never dreamed to buy land around the Lake of Galilee and by the river Jordan, but the Blessed Perfection commanded me to do so, in consideration of their biblical sacredness | DAS.1914-12-28 | @prophecy and fulfillment, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @business; financial; property matters | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3237 | Words to Latimer, Remey et al, spoken in Oct. 1914 | 40 | You must be very moderate. Consider the taste of the public. This is the best policy. Moderation, moderation. | SW_v05#14 p.216, VLAB.099 | @wisdom [hikmat], @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @Moses, @courtesy; culture [adab] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3236 | Words to Mrs. Hoagg, spoken around Jan. 1914(?) | 40 | Individual consciousness is realized after birth here. This is the matrix world for the soul, even as the womb was the matrix world for the body or vehicle. Birth into consciousness of another world begins here, a world for which this physical and material one is but the preparation and foundation. | PN_1913-14_heh p115, PN_1913-14_heh p117 | @the human soul, @soul; spirit after death, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @second birth | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3235 | Words to some Persian friends, spoken on 1913-03-18 | 40 | Paris is like a very large, clean stable where many millions of horses are well-fed, well-kept and well-trained; but you do not expect to find spirituality. | DAS.1913-03-18 | @critique of Western values; culture, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @knowledge; recognition of God, @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3234 | Words to Ramona Allen Brown, spoken on 1912-10 ca. | 40 | You have intuition. You must follow it always, because when you follow it, it increases and becomes more clear. Only a few have this gift. | MAB.014 | @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @intuition; inspiration, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3233 | Words spoken in May 1911 in Ramleh | 40 | Yes, a planet can lose the bounty of God and be destroyed. As man depends on his elements and the brain in particular, so the 'sent Prophets and Manifestations' are like the brain of a planet | PN_1911 p008 | @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3232 | Words to Mary Hanford Ford in 1910 | 40 | I think we should learn to live in the body as if it were a glass case, through which we can look clearly on all sides. But we must remember that we cannot see through glass unless it is clean, and no one can dust his own case but himself. | TOR.200-201 | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3231 | Words to Miss Rosenberg, spoken around 1909-01-09 | 40 | All these things - the fish, the honeycomb etc, are symbols and were meant to be understood spiritually, just as the Resurrection itself was a spiritual resurrection. | SW_v07#11 p.108, PN_1909 p072, PN_1909 p104, PN_unsorted p022 | @resurrection of Christ, @outward and inward meanings, @literal interpretation, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3230 | Words spoken ca. 1915 in Abu Sinan | 40 | There is spiritual healing and there is also material healing. Unless these two work together a cure is impossible. | CHH.192, BLO_PN#022 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @law of cause and effect, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3229 | Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21 | 40 | They believe that mankind must love mankind, that universal amity must be practiced; that dead dogmas must be thrown away | DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p005 | @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3228 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | Miracles have frequently obscured the Teachings which the Divine Messenger has brought. The Message is the real miracle. | CHH.170, BLO_PN#022 | @miracles and their interpretation, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3227 | Words spoken on 1910-02-19 | 40 | If anyone comes to you and endeavors to belittle the station of another in your presence or speaks in any terms against another, you must not listen | PN_unsorted p074 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3226 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 40 | As long as you are on the shore--or as long as the sands of your sins are on the shore--the waves of the sea will wash them | AHF.016 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual transformation, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3225 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | Spirit is the highest and supreme development of the soul. Soul is the material or outer self—the Mind. Mind is the action of the Soul's powers. | SW_v14#01 p.009, TDLA.009, BLO_PN#104 | @soul; spirit after death, @relationship of the soul to the body, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3224 | Words spoken in Dec. 1913 | 40 | Then do something that will keep you from dying; that will instead, day by day make you more alive | BW_v13p1187, VLAB.048 | @soul; spirit after death, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @consolation and comfort, @stories; anecdotes, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3223 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1912-07-04 | 40 | Even the sword is no test to the Persian believers.... But some of the people here are tested if I don't say 'How do you do?' | PN_1909B p047, DJT.327, BLO_PN#027 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3222 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-15 | 40 | The most important thing is deeds. Good deeds are accepted by all nations and religions. As to presenting the teachings by word, the teacher must be as a skillful physician | AHV.019, BLO_PN#045 | @goodly deeds; actions, @methods of teaching the Cause, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @being a source of light; guidance, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3221 | Words to Stanwood Cobb in Jan. 1908 | 40 | It is not enough to wish to do good. The wish should be followed by action. What would you think of a mother who said | IHP.031-032, BLO_PN#046 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @words vs deeds | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3220 | Words to Mr Esslemont and Mrs True, spoken around Nov. 1919 | 40 | As to the House of Spirituality the first question relates to its election. The election should be carried out with sincerity and goodwill. | PN_1919 p016, BSTW#248a | @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @elections, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3219 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | When a thought of war enters your mind, suppress it, and plant in its stead a positive thought of peace. | CHH.168, BLO_PN#022 | @power of imagination; thought; right intention, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @war and peace | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3218 | Words to Miss Rosenberg, spoken around 1909-01-09 | 40 | the one essential, the only thing to do was that the members of the little groups should love each other very much and be devoted friends. The more they loved each other, the more the meetings would attract and draw others, and the more they loved, the more their influence would be felt. | SW_v07#11 p.107, PN_1909 p072, PN_1909 p104 | @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @importance of community building, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3217 | Words to pilgrims in June 1906 | 40 | Men are trained and developed through these; that is, through poverty, vicissitudes and want. Otherwise, God would have ordered that His friends and Saints become endowed with great wealth | PN_1906 p077, SUR.269, BLO_PN#001 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3216 | 40 | If any soul desires to attain to Knowledge, in the moment when that desire had mounted to its apex--a teacher will be sent regardless whether that inquiring one is in a cave in the ground or in any other inaccessible place. The power of divine attraction will bring this Knowledge to that soul. | BSTW#485(p) | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @condition of search | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3215 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | When we give the Message, we develop ourselves. Our own heart is opened when we teach the heart of the listener. The more we give, the more we get. | TDLA.015, BLO_PN#104 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3214 | Words spoken on 1920-09-20 in Haifa | 40 | He said that the belief of the Druses was very secret, but he knew it - that they do not believe in any prophet, neither Jesus nor Muhammad, but in minor people, such as Peter. Their leader was a servant of Muhammad. They believe in reincarnation. They veil and pretend to be a Muhammadan sect. | PN_1920_heh_haifa p024 | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3213 | Words spoken on 1914-03-17 in Haifa | 40 | Christ was known by the name of the Lamb. The only means of defense that a lamb possesses are his horns. | DAS.1914-03-17 | @Christ; Christianity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3212 | Words to Emogene Hoagg et al, spoken on 1914-01-01 | 40 | What is known is that a piece of ground was bought specially for the Tomb of Jesus and that is known as Golgotha. When St. Helena went to Jerusalem she tried to have this place discovered. The Jews showed her the place that is now pointed out. They got a good sum for their guidance. | PN_1913-14_heh p118 | @Shrines and Holy places, @exhortations and counsels | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3211 | Words to Mrs Hiscock, spoken on 1913-11-08 | 40 | The greatest day in the life of a human soul is when as a thirsty one he arrives at the Fountain of the Water of Life | DAS.1913-11-08 | @spiritual transformation, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @living waters; water of life, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3210 | Words spoken on 1913-11-08 in Ramleh | 40 | I have found a way to gain my living with the sweat of my brow and the labor of my hand. I now must be the candle of severance | DAS.1913-11-08 | @agriculture, @work as worship, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3209 | Words spoken on 1913-06-24 in Port Said | 40 | Perfection is impossible without humility; humility is unattainable without the love of God | PN_1909 p024, PN_1913 p004 | @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @loving community spirit in teaching the Cause, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3208 | Words spoken at Broadway street en route in New York, 1912-04-18 | 40 | This is nothing. This is only the beginning. We will be together in all the worlds of God. You can not realize here what that means. | DJT.262, FDA.012, BLO_PN#027 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @humor; jokes, @soul; spirit after death, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @personal instructions, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3207 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | It is nearly two thousand years since His holiness the Lord Christ taught this prayer to His people: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven | CHH.172, BLO_PN#022 | @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @predictions and prophecies, @Christ; Christianity, @prophecy and fulfillment, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3206 | Words to Aseyeh Allen spoken in May 1907 | 40 | One must not look at one's self, for the more one does this, the more he sees his faults | PN_1907 p063 | @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @knowledge; recognition of God, @nearness and remoteness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3205 | Words to Mary MacNutt et al in 1904 | 40 | Forty years ago there was no rain at Cairo. Thoughtful scientific men planted trees in that region. Now the country is refreshed by rain. Capacity attracts. | PN_1904 p086 | @development of capacity and readiness, @education and the development of capacity, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @living waters; water of life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3204 | 40 | We have sat together many times before, and we shall sit together many times again in the Kingdom. We shall laugh together very much in those times | BW_v12p899, VLAB.153 | @eulogies; reminiscences, @soul; spirit after death, @Christ; Christianity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3203 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | Miracles are constantly being performed in the material world about us, yet they make but little impression. Every Prophet has His own particular Mission and function. | TDLA.005, BLO_PN#104 | @miracles and their interpretation, @station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3202 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | Allusion cannot convey what Reality teaches. Christ said, 'What has happened in the past will happen again in the future.' The reason of this is that all things are under the operation of Divine Law | TDLA.012, BLO_PN#104 | @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @oneness; unity of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @limits of language, @transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3201 | Words to a Christian girl, spoken on 1913-02-23 | 40 | Christ and the Bible be for us; the Pope and all the priests be for you. We follow Christ and not the priests. | DAS.1913-02-23 | @Christ; Christianity, @the Christian clergy | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3200 | Words spoken in May 1911 in Ramleh | 40 | Complete individuality belongs only to the station of the Prophet. Those who follow Him are under the "shadow" of this station.... After death man does not develop through conscious effort | SW_v14#02 p.037-038, PN_1911 p005 | @soul; spirit after death, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3199 | Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921 | 40 | Take prejudice, how it grows. First a few people say something disparaging about a person, and generally, there is a fragment of the truth in what they say. | PN_1921 p012, BLO_PN#060 | @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3198 | Words to Mrs Dixon, spoken on 1912-11-08 | 40 | It is in God's hands. Pray for me to return and say: 'O Bahá'u'lláh! Confirm ‘Abdu'l-Bahá in the Cause of God. | PN_1912 p017 | @personal instructions, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3197 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-12 | 40 | The colored people must attend all the unity meetings. There must be no distinctions. All are equal. If you have any influence to get the races to intermarry, it will be very valuable. | AHV.015, BLO_PN#045 | @race unity; racial issues, @laws of marriage and dowry | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3196 | Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-26 | 40 | Severance from the world is the first sign of the Love of God. As long as man is much attached to this world he will be unaware of the Kingdom of God. | PN_1919 p203, LAT.141-142 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Manifestation of God as sun, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3195 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-30 | 40 | The Western people think differently, argue differently, and reach the truth from a different standpoint. They are always looking for results. | DAS.1914-03-29 | @praise of Western values; culture, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3194 | Words to the Eastern pilgrims, spoken on 1913-06-30 | 40 | Well, what are we going to do next? Tell me what should be done? We have already travelled a good deal. We have crossed the seas | DAS.1913-06-30 | @growth of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3193 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-26 | 40 | When Bahá'u'lláh was imprisoned in the barrack of Acca, he could see the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire under the despotic and fanatical rule of the Sultans | DAS.1913-04-26 | @critique of Eastern values; culture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3192 | Words to Mrs Sanderson, spoken on 1913-01-28 | 40 | Paris is like unto a green meadow, the people are like unto sheep, they are grazing in this meadow, they drink of the flowing streams. The materialists, cow-like, graze also with the rest. | DAS.1913-01-28 | @critique of Western values; culture, @symbolism, @regarding the receptivity of the hearer in teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3191 | Words to Corinne True spoken around 1912-06-17 | 40 | They must be souls well-known as Bahá'ís, firm and steadfast in the Covenant. The greatest requirement is to be firm and steadfast in the Covenant. | PN_1912 p069, PN_1912 p087 | @elections, @firmness in the Covenant, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3190 | Words spoken ca. 1912-04-22 in Washington | 40 | All nations must become socialistic in spirit. People must not be forced by circumstances to help the poor. They must give aid willingly. | BSTW#336b | @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @critiques of capitalism, communism, socialism, @wealth inequality and its moderation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3189 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23 | 40 | ...that was not really a deterioration of the essential part of the man, the mind or spirit, but a weakening of the functional organs. | PN_1909F p061, PN_1909F p116, AKL.009 | @relationship of the soul to the body, @proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3188 | Words to Ali Kuli Khan, spoken on 1906-06-12 | 40 | In the end, all will be well and happy times will come. 'Once again a time will come as sweet as sugar.' The time will come when the procession of pilgrims of all lands will be densely extended | PN_1906 p032, SUR.228, BLO_PN#001 | @unity in diversity, @predictions and prophecies, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3187 | Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901 | 40 | As we can only see different objects by the light of the sun, one might in one sense and with truth say the sun is in everything. | PN_1901 p002 | @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @Manifestation of God as sun, @material world a reflection of the spiritual | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3186 | Words to some materialist scholars spoken in Dec. 1900 | 40 | A living body cannot come forth from a dead body. Only a living man can make a living child; this is a scientific fact. | PN_1900 p118 | @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary, @evolution; human evolution | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3184 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | The Prophets of the Word could not sin. They possess the power and will to violate the Will of God, but the desire to do so is never present in them. | TDLA.010, BLO_PN#104 | @free will and predestination; fate, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3183 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 40 | Look at the plains, look at the hills: they are defeated armies, they are hosts that fell in heaps and were leveled with the ground | BW_v13p1188 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3182 | Words to Juliet Thompson, spoken on 1912-11-12 | 40 | With those who are against the Center of the Covenant you must not associate at all.... You will see a dimness on the faces, like the letting down of a veil. | DJT.366, BLO_PN#027 | @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @light and darkness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3181 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 40 | Jesus was a dyer by trade. He also lived in Egypt. 'Out of Egypt have I called My Son' was spoken of Jesus. The fifth Gospel which is considered non-canonical gave other history of Jesus | TDLA.009, BLO_PN#104 | @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @Christian doctrine and practice | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3180 | 40 | ...in like manner, when the sincere purposes and the justice of the sovereign, the knowledge and perfect political efficiency of the ministers of state | SW_v07#15 p.147 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @relationship between government and people, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3179 | 40 | We know a violator, Abdu'l-Baha says, as we know a donkey when we see him, because violation of the Covenant, he says has a pungent odor | SW_v09#05 p.062 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @mystery of the great reversal, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3178 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | I know it; I think a great deal of it. I know that their desire is to serve mankind. I thank this noble Society | AIL.061 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @praise and encouragement, @call to action | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3177 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen in 1909 | 40 | I am the servant of Baha'o'llah and nothing more; Abdu'l-Baha is the sum of all perfections | SW_v08#15 p.211 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3176 | 40 | It is not your work but that of the Holy Spirit which you breathe forth through the Word. | SW_v08#12 p.148 | @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @The Holy Spirit, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @work as worship | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3175 | Words to Badi Bushru'i and other students, Ramleh, 1913-09-19 | 40 | ...translate at least one page every day, either from English into Persian, or from Persian into English, thus they might acquire efficiency in this line of work. He recommended for the future that when the means are provided, a committee of translators be organized from both nationalities, who would know the two languages well, in addition to Arabic. Then the Tablets would be properly translated. | DAS.1913-09-19, ABIE.331, BLO_PN#007 | @language and the structure of reality, @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3174 | Words spoken on 1911-09-09 in London | 40 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | I love you all, you are the children of the Kingdom, and you are accepted of God. | AIL.085 | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @love and unity, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3173 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 40 | The prayerful attitude is attained by two means. Just as a man who is going to deliver a lecture prepares therefor | SW_v08#04 p.043, AHF.019 | @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3172 | 40 | Praise be to God! Your hearts are overflowing with the love of God and you have no great attachment to this world. | SW_v14#02 p.061, DJT.072, BLO_PN#027 | @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @the power of words; of speech, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3170 | 40 | The most important of all matters in question, and that with which it is most specially necessary to deal effectively, is the promotion of education. | SW_v07#15 p.137, SW_v07#15 p.141-142 | @universal education, @education of children; moral education, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @fanaticism and hatred | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3169 | Words to Percy Woodcock | 40 | Tell the friends the matter of building the Mashreq'Ul Azkar in Chicago is of supreme importance. Even if it be only a single room now it will have greater effect than the largest temples of the future. The most important thing in this day is the speedy erection of the Edifice... Its mystery is great and cannot be unveiled just yet. In the future it will be made plain. | SW_v13#06 p.132, SW_v06#07 p.053 | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @prophecy and fulfillment, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3168 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 40 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | You wear the cross for remembrance, it concentrates your thoughts; it has no magical power | AIL.093 | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @symbolism | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3167 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 40 | Maybe, but if this is so, it will be known in the future. There are prophecies in the old Persian books that were taken to India long ago by Zoroastrians | DLA.062, BLO_PN#026 | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3166 | Words spoken at Jenner home in East Sheen, ca. Sep. 1911 | 40 | Blessed are the children, of whom His Holiness Christ said: 'Of such are the Kingdom of Heaven.' Children have no worldly ambitions. Their hearts are pure. We must become like children, crowning our heads with the crown of severance;; purifying our hearts, that we may see God in His Great Manifestations, and obey the laws brought to us by those, His Messengers. | CHH.166, BLO_PN#022 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3165 | Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-04-11 | 40 | There are good and bad newspapers. Those which strive to speak only that which is truth, which hold the mirror up to the truth, are like the sun | SW_v03#03 p.003 | @newspapers and the media; publications, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @Manifestation of God as sun, @the power of words; of speech, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3164 | Words spoken on 1913-07-28 in Ramleh | 40 | Up to the time I was 32 years [old], I never slept in bed, preferring always a piece of mat and as cushion I chose one or two books. | DAS.1913-07-28, ABIE.123, BLO_PN#007 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3163 | Words spoken on 1913-07-02 in Port Said | 40 | With the appearance of the Truth the point of opposition raises its head. The former gains signal victory; the other goes into crushing defeat. | DAS.1913-07-02, ABIE.011, BLO_PN#007 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @things are known by their opposites | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3162 | Words spoken on 1913-04-01 in Stuttgart | 40 | This is the best thing; we will arrive in Stuttgart.... How attracted and enkindled are the German Bahais! | SW_v04#09 p.162 | @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @praise and encouragement | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3161 | Words to a young Jewish woman, spoken on 1912-08-21 | 40 | Persian | یهودی خوب هم بهائی میشود حقیقت امر حضرت موسی و امر حضرت بهاءالله یکی است توجه ببهآءالله کن سکون و قرار خواهی یافت | A good Jew can also become a Baha'í. The truth of the religion of Moses and of Baha'u'llah is one. | BDA1.200.09 | MHMD1.216 | @call to action, @spiritual transformation, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @oneness; unity of religion, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3160 | Words spoken on 1913-05-20 in Paris | 40 | Persian | وقتی بنی اسرائیل در مدارس خود علوم مادیه و دینیه را با هم تعلیم میدادند این سبب تربیت نفوس | When the people of Israel taught both material and spiritual subjects at their schools, this resulted in the education of people who were versed in many arts and sciences | BDA2.309 | MHMD2.409 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @education of children; moral education, @harmony of science and religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3159 | Public address given on 1912-11-28 | 40 | Persian | هر چند بمدنیت مادیه و شئون جسمانیه مشغولند ولی مثل بعض بلاد اروپا بکلی از روحانیات غافل نشده اند | Although they are engrossed in material civilization and physical pursuits, still, unlike people in some European countries, they are not wholly devoid of spiritual susceptibilities. | BDA1.394.09 | MHMD1.413 | @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @critique of Western values; culture, @love and unity, @independent investigation of truth; reality | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3158 | Words spoken on 1913-01-28 in Paris | 40 | Persian | هر چند استقلال ایران را بباد دادند ولی ایران روز بروز رو بترقی است نا امید نباید بود | Though the independence of Perisa has been cast to the wind, yet does it continue to progress with every passing day | BDA2.110 | MHMD2.136 | @past, present and future of Iran, @predictions and prophecies, @consolation and comfort, @law of transformation and change | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3157 | Words to Mr. Woodcock, spoken on 1912-04-01 | 40 | Persian | نفس واسطهٴ ما بین روح و جسم است فیوضات و کمالات را از روح گرفته بجسم | The soul is a link between the body and the spirit. It receives bounties and virtues from the spirit and gives them to the body | BDA1.020.04 | MHMD1.027 | @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @relationship of the soul to the body, @the human soul | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3156 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-08-05 | 40 | Persian | میگویند اگر عالم روحانی یا ملکوتی می بود ما احساس مینمودیم با وجودیکه عدم احساس شأنی نیست هر گاه عدم احساس کمالی باشد | They say that had there been a spiritual world they would have sensed it. But, as a matter of fact, inability to sense a thing is not a proof of the nonexistence of that thing. | BDA1.177.16 | MHMD1.193 | @rational arguments, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @proofs for the existence of God, @limits of the intellect, @man's distinction from the animal | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3155 | Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-05-09 | 40 | Persian | من خیلی رعایت نفوس میکنم که فرار ننمایند و ادنی اعتراضی نتوانند با وجود این | Although I pay great respect to the feelings of people in order that they may not run away or make the least objection, yet the religious ministers of Washington have denounced us | BDA1.078.x | MHMD1.086 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3154 | Words spoken on 1913-03-30 in Stuttgart | 40 | Persian | من خواستم بیخبر بیایم احبای استتکارت را خیلی دوست دارم همه | I wished to come without apprising anyone. I love the Baha'is of Stuttgart very much. | BDA2.208-209 | MHMD2.268 | @praise and encouragement, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3153 | Words spoken at 227 Riverside Drive in New York, 1912-11-12 | 40 | Persian | من با فقرا کار دارم و بمحل فقرا میروم نه اغنیا جمیع را من دوست دارم علی الخصوص فقرا را | I deal with the poor and visit them, not the rich. I love all, especially the poor. All sorts of people come here and I meet them | BDA1.369.03 | MHMD1.387 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3152 | Words spoken on 1915-10-14 in Haifa | 40 | Persian | مکتوبی از توپوکیان قنسول ایران در امریکا رسیده است. نوشته است که علی قلی خان به وی ابلاغ کرده | A missive hath been received from Topakian, Consul of Iran in America. He hath written that 'Ali-Quli Khan communicated unto him [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-10-14 | @past, present and future of Iran, @constitutional revolution in Iran | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3151 | Words spoken on 1915-10-17 in Haifa | 40 | Persian | مقصود از امتداد زمانی است یعنی قوانین و احکام این دوره اگر هم چند هزار سال بگیرد بدون شک در عالم ظهور جلوه خواهد نمود | The purpose of temporal extension signifieth that the laws and ordinances of this Dispensation shall, without doubt, be made manifest in the realm of creation, even should it endure for thousands of years [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-10-17 | @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @banishment to; life in 'Akka | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3150 | Words to visitors, spoken on 1912-05-02 | 40 | Persian | مقصد از طی مصافت و تحمل صعوبت سطوع نورانیت در عالم غرب بوده زیرا در ممالک | The object of my undertaking such a long journey with all its inconveniences has been to bring about spiritual illumination in the Occident | BDA1.064.16 | SW_v19#04 p.112, MHMD1.073 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3149 | 40 | Persian | مرکز میثاق را محور شرک نامید و نقطه نفی شمرد که معاذ الله در عدد چنین است | He designated the Center of the Covenant as the pivot of idolatry and regarded it as the Point of Negation—God forbid that such should be reckoned in numbers [3.5s] | AVK3.358.06 | @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3148 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-10 | 40 | Persian | مراد لوحی از الواح مبارکست و کنایه از اینکه الواح الهیه را باید بر سنگهای گرانبها نقش نمود | What is meant is one of the holy Tablets. But it also alludes to the fact that the divine Tablets should be engraved on precious stones. In addition, there is a saying in the East by which the color white symbolizes divine will | ASAT5.040, MAS2.021, BDA1.152.02 | MHMD1.164 | @symbolism of color and light, @symbolism, @martyrs and martyrdom | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3147 | Words spoken on 1915-06-19 in Haifa | 40 | Persian | کلمات مکنونه بعد از سفر سلیمانیه نازل شد. رشح عما در سنهٴ شصت و هفت نازل شد. شهرت جمال مبارک به بهاء الله آنوقت شد. هیکلی که حضرت اعلی نوشته اند در شصت و هفت بود در آخر ایام حضرت اعلی | The Hidden Words were revealed after the sojourn in Sulaymaniyyih. The Most Great Effusion was revealed in the year sixty and seven. The Blessed Beauty became renowned as Bahá'u'lláh at that time. The Temple which the Exalted One had penned was in sixty and seven, in the latter days of His ministry [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-06-19 | @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3146 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-04 | 40 | Persian | قول منجمین اکثر اشتباه و غیر معتبر است ولی جمیع کائنات بهم مرتبط مثل اعضآء هیکل انسان که ارتباط تام دارد | The words of the astrologers are for the most part doubtful and unreliable. But the whole of creation is interrelated like the different parts of the human body which have a complete affinity from the toenail to the hair on the head. | BDA1.146.05 | MHMD1.157 | @astrology and numerology, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3145 | Words spoken on board the SS Cedric at sea, 1912-04-09 | 40 | Persian | فردای دیگر مسافر دریا هستیم واقعاً قوهٴ بخار چیز عجیبی است اگر این قوه نبود بحر محیط را | We shall be at sea for another day. Steam power is truly a wonderful thing. | BDA1.025.02 | DAS.1913-07-20, MHMD1.033, ABIE.090, BLO_PN#007 | @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3144 | Words spoken on board the SS Cedric at sea, 1912-04-06 | 40 | Persian | صحبتشان در مجلس این خواهد بود که مسیح خود را برای رفع گناهان قربان نمود اما معانی آن را نفهمیده اند | Their speeches in the meeting will be to the effect that Christ sacrificed Himself in order to redeem us from our sins. But they do not understand the inner meaning... The redemption of sins depends on our acting upon the admonitions of Christ, and the martyrdom of Christ was to cause us to attain praiseworthy morals and supreme stations. | BDA1.023.16 | MHMD1.032 | @Christian doctrine and practice, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @spiritual transformation, @outward and inward meanings | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3143 | Words to the friends spoken in Dec. 1907 | 40 | Persian | شیطان یکی نفس اماره است که ببغی و فحشا میکند و دیگری بعض نفوس بظاهر آراسته | Satan is the base self, which provokes destruction and impetuosity. Outwardly some individuals are refined and presentable, but in their essence they remain base. | KHH1.037 (1.051-052) | KHHE.068-069 | @Satan; the Evil One, @outward and inward meanings | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3142 | Words to some Jewish visitors, spoken on 1912-10-07 | 40 | Persian | روزی آمده و زمانی ظاهر شده که انبیای الهی بان وعده داده اند یوم یومی است که صهیون برقص آید | The day and age promised by the divine Prophets has appeared. This is the day in which Zion dances with joy. | BDA1.292.11 | MHMD1.310 | @prophecy and fulfillment, @future of Haifa; of the Holy Land, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3141 | Words spoken in Dec. 1907 | 40 | Persian | دیشت خوابی دیدم که به عکا کشتی ای وارد شد ایستاد ملاحظه شد طیوری چند به شکل دینامیت | Last night in a dream I witnessed the arrival of a ship at 'Akka. As it dropped anchor, I saw a number of birds in the shape of grenades fly up from the ship and over the city. They soared from one part of town to another, yet the grenades did not detonate, and the birds returned to the ship. | KNSA.258-259 | GPB.270, MNYA.358 | @interpretation of dreams and visions, @symbolism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3140 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-06-22 | 40 | Persian | دیشب خواب دیدم که روی شتری سوارم و این شتر مرا اذیت می کرد. از گردن او پیاده شدم. بعد این شتر پیراهن مرا دندان گرفته و بزمین می مالید و گمان می کرد من در پیراهن هستم و حال آنکه من ایستاده تماشا می کردم | Last night I dreamt I was riding on a dromedary, going fast through a desert. The animal became wild and beyond my control. | ZSM.1915-06-22 | DAS.1915-06-22 | @accounts of dreams and visions, @symbolism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3139 | Answer to questions, Dublin, 1912-08-09 | 40 | Persian | در وجود شر نیست شر عدم است و انچه در وجود است خیر است جهل شر است و آن عدم علم است | There is no evil in existence. Evil is non-existence. All that is created is good. Ignorance is evil | BDA1.184.11 | SW_v19#12 p.379, MHMD1.200 | @nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil, @things are known by their opposites | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3138 | Words spoken on 1913-05-03 in Paris | 40 | Persian | در شرق ذکر وطن هیچوقت سبب هیجان و اتفاق مشرقیان نشده و منبحْ نتائج عظیمه نگشته | In the East, the mention of one's own native land has never conduced to the excitement or unification of the Easterners, nor has it ever produced any great results | BDA2.282 | MHMD2.370 | @praise of Eastern values; culture, @nationalism; love of country | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3137 | Words to a reporter from the Post, spoken on 1912-10-04 | 40 | Persian | در این قرن نورانی جمیع امور تجدید شده علوم تجدد یافته فنون جدید | In this enlightened age everything has been renewed--sciences have been renewed, new arts have come into being | BDA1.287.12 | MHMD1.305 | @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @religion as reality; definitions of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3136 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-09-11 | 40 | Persian | خیلی مسرورم که شماها بر امر الله ثابت و مستقیم هستید بعضی نفوس مانند گیاههای بی ریشه هستند | I am exceedingly pleased because I see you firm and unwavering in the Cause of God. Some individuals are like rootless plants | BDA1.238.04 | MHMD1.254-255 | @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @symbolism, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3135 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-19 | 40 | There was a Baktashi who passed by the door of a theological seminary. He saw the attendant beating a dog. | DAS.1913-03-19 | @humor; jokes, @stories; anecdotes, @kindness to and rights of animals | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3134 | Words spoken in San Francisco, 1912-10-06 | 40 | Persian | حقیقت الوهیت منزه از حلول و دخول است ولی مظاهر الهیه حاکی از صفات و کمالات حق سبحانه و تعالی هستند | The reality of divinity is holy beyond descent and incarnation but the divine Manifestations are expressive of the attributes and perfections of God. | BDA1.290.11 | MHMD1.308 | @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @station of the Manifestation of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3133 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-13 | 40 | Persian | حرص و طمع مخمر در طبیعت انسانی است ولکن تربیت الهی این صفات را تغییر میدهد | Greed and avarice are ingrained in human nature. However, divine teachings will change these attributes. | KHH1.215 (1.302) | KHHE.316, DAS.1915-04-13, BSR_v13 p.101 | @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @Manifestation of God as educator, @suffering and imprisonment, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3132 | Words spoken privately in Washington D.C., 1912-04-23 | 40 | Persian | جمال مبارک را باید شکر نمود زیرا تائیدات اوست که مهیج نفوس است توفیقات جمال ابهی است که مقلب قلوبست | We must offer thanks to the Blessed Beauty because it is His help that has stirred the people; it is His grace that has changed the hearts. | BDA1.048.02 | SW_v19#03 p.089x, MHMD1.056 | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @spiritual transformation, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @praise and encouragement, @thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3131 | Words spoken on 1912-09-27 in Glenwood Springs | 40 | Persian | توجه بمیثاق اطاعت جمال مبارکست و سبب جمع شمل اهل بها واضح بگویم | To turn to the Covenant is to obey the Blessed Beauty which is a cause of gathering together the people of Baha. | BDA1.275.16 | MHMD1.294 | @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3130 | Words to the American friends, spoken on 1912-03-31 | 40 | Persian | تاریخ حاجی میرزا جانی را کم و زیاد نموده کتابخانهٴ پاریس و لندن فرستادند | They [the Azalis] tampered with the contents of the history of Haji Mirza Jani by removing some of its passages and inserting others. They sent it to the libraries of London and Paris | BDA1.018.01 | MHMD1.024 | @review of publications | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3129 | Words spoken at home of Shaykh Salih in Abu Sinan, 1914-11-02 | 40 | Persian | بی پرگار با دستش دایره میکشید دو خط متساوی و متلاصق مانند پرگار و خطکش | Without [the aid of] a compass, he could draw circles. He did this using two equal, perpendicular lines | KHH1.138 (1.191) | KHHE.207-208 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3128 | Words spoken on 1913-01-27 in Paris | 40 | Persian | به بین خدا ما را بکجاها کشانیده چگونه آوارهٴ صحرا و دریا کرده فی الحقیقه این قول حافظ | Consider the places where God has taken us--how He has made us wanderers upon the plains and across the seas. Truly, this passage from Hafiz | BDA2.109 | MHMD2.134 | @poems and quotation from poetry, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3127 | Words to the friends spoken in Dec. 1907 | 40 | Persian | بسیار چای خوبی است چای باید اینطور باشد قند خوب چای خوب آب زلال پیاله پاک | This is very good. Tea must be like this: good sugar, excellent tea, purified water, clean cup and in every way neat and organized. Otherwise, it is better not to drink it. | KHH1.052 (1.073) | KHHE.091 | @stories; anecdotes, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @personal instructions, @cleanliness and refinement | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3126 | Words to a newspaper reporter, spoken on 1912-04-12 | 40 | Persian | برای سیاحت و ملاقات انجمنهای صلح آمده ام زیرا اساس ما صلح عمومی | I have come to visit the peace societies of America because the fundamental principles of our Cause are universal peace and the promotion of the basic doctrine of the oneness and truth of all the divine religions. | BDA1.029.11 | MHMD1.038 | @oneness; unity of religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @blind imitation [taqlid] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3125 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 40 | Persian | باید مواظب باشید که جانطه شمارا سارقین در راه بسرقت نبرند بسیار بسیار دقت و مراقبت نمائید | Take heed lest thieves upon the way make plunder of thy purse; be thou exceedingly vigilant and watchful [3.5s] | KHMT.099 | @chastisement and requital, @wisdom [hikmat], @prayer for protection | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3124 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-15 | 40 | Persian | با وجود انکه در حبس بودند خیمهٴ مبارک بالای جبل کرمل در نهایت جلال مرتفع و بظاهر ظاهر قدرت | Although He was a prisoner, He pitched His tent with glory on Mount Carmel. Even outwardly His power and majesty were such that for five years | BDA1.124.02 | SW_v19#07 p.221, MHMD1.132 | @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Mount Carmel, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3123 | Words to Mrs Parsons, spoken on 1912-04-25 | 40 | Persian | این نحو مسافر و مهمان خیلی زحمت دارد و باید خانه را بگذاری و فرار کنی | It is very difficult to have one like me as a guest. Every guest and traveler has a limited number of friends with whom he makes special dates for visits, but you are forced all day long to be the entertainer of all. | BDA1.051.12 | SW_v19#03 p.090, MHMD1.059 | @hospitality, @personal instructions | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3122 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-07-12 | 40 | Persian | این شهر و اطرافش نصف ایران جمعیت دارد اگر ایران چنین جمعیت و ثروتی میداشت و رو بترقی میگذاشت | This city with its suburbs has about half the population of Persia. If Persia had a population and an affluence like this, and had she turned herself to progress | BDA1.154.06 | MHMD1.167 | @praise of Eastern values; culture | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3121 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 40 | Persian | این رمز است مانند آن که طواف کعبه را باید در وقت معینی و محل | This is an emblem, even as the circumambulation of the Sacred House must needs be performed at an appointed time and place [3.5s] | KHH2.294a | @symbolism, @spiritual transformation, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3120 | Words spoken on board the SS Cedric at sea, 1912-03-28 | 40 | Persian | این حمالهای زغال کشی چه قدر تحمل زحمت مینمایند چه قدر محتاج و فقیر ندخیلی لازمست صاحبان کمپانی | What hardship these coal miners have to suffer, how poor and needy they are! | BDA1.015.14 | MHMD1.022 | @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3119 | Words spoken on 1913-03-15 in Paris | 90 | Persian | این امور اهمیت ندارد و قابل جواب نه امری که بنیان آن اوهن از بیوت عنکبوتست | This matter [of Shu'a'u'llah's attacks] is of no importance and is unworthy of a response… In spite of all the love and support I have him, Mirza Badi'u'llah caused a fresh adversity with every passing day | BDA2.182 | MHMD2.231-232 | @chastisement and requital, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3118 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-09 | 40 | Persian | ای پروردگار در نهایت محبت مجتمعیم و بملکوت تو متوجه جز تو نخواهیم و غیر رضای تو | O Lord! We are assembled here in the utmost love and are turned toward Thy Kingdom | BDA1.363.06 | MHMD1.382 | @prayer to be recited at table, @power of prayer, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the concourse on high, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3117 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1913-05-08 | 40 | Man must never get satisfied. He must ever be thirsty. There is nothing worse in this world than 'satiety'. Man must drink from every fountain. | DAS.1913-05-08 | @spiritual transformation, @effort; striving, @condition of search, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3116 | Words spoken on 1915-08-08 in Haifa | 40 | Persian | اگر در ژاپون [امر] دربگیرد بسیار خوب می شود. آنها استعدادش را دارند، بعکس چینی ها. اهالی چین هیچ استعداد ندارند | Should the Cause take root in Japan, it would be most wondrous. They possess the capacity for it, unlike the Chinese. The people of China have no capacity whatsoever [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-08-08 | @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3115 | Words to reporters, spoken on 1912-09-11 | 40 | Persian | اگر بگوئیم برای خلق اول و آخری است مثل اینست که از برای خدا اول و آخری معتقد شده ایم | If we determine a beginning and an end for creation, it is as if we determine a beginning and an end for God. There can be no creator without a creation. | BDA1.238.01 | MHMD1.254 | @God's attributes require the existence of objects, @divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3114 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-07-27 | 40 | Persian | اگر انصاف باشد ثابت میشود که برای احبای الهی من چه کرده ام و همهٴ اینها بعون و عنایت جمال مبارک بوده و الا ما اشخاص ایرانی با اهالی امریکا در دبلین بالای تل و کوه بظاهر چه مناسبتی داریم | If there is any justice, then what I have done for the friends will become apparent. I have done all this through the bounty and assistance of the Blessed Beauty. Otherwise, what have we Persians in common with the Americans on top of this mountain and valley in Dublin? | BDA1.168.02 | MHMD1.182-183 | @East and West; communication between East and West, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3113 | Words spoken at dinner hosted by a Rajput prince in London, 1913-01-19 | 90 | Persian | چون احبّای فارسی در بمبئی خبر شدند یکی از آنها که کیخسرو نام داشت با کمال شوق برخاست | When the Parsi believers of Bombay learned of Mr Sprague's illness, one of them--a man named Kay-Khusraw--arose with the utmost alacrity | BDA2.095 | DAS.1913-01-18n, MHMD2.115, ABCC.371, STAB#137 | @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @power of love | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3111 | 50 | There was a Protestant who rejected the Bahá’í Faith because of the fact that His Holiness the Bab was martyred. | STAB#074 | - | - | |||||||||||||
| ABU3110 | 50 | Through the bounty and favor of God think nothing difficult or impossible. God is so bountiful that He brings fire out from the stone; inflammable matter jets out from the interior of the earth | SW_v16#04 p.473 | @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @light and darkness | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3109 | 50 | Today the true duty of a powerful king is to establish universal peace: for verily it signifies the freedom of all the people of the world. | SW_v07#15 p.136 | @true liberty; freedom, @unity of governments; political unity, @universal peace; world unity, @status of kings; future of monarchy | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3108 | 50 | Truly I say unto thee, every maidservant who arises in this day in the mystery of sacrifice in the path of God | SW_v07#12 p.115-116 | @praise and encouragement, @role and station of women, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @angels | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3107 | 50 | Blessed is he who proclaims the doctrine of Spiritual Brotherhood, for he shall be the Child of Light | SW_v12#01 p.013 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3106 | Words spoken in May1921 | 50 | Say to this convention that never since the beginning of time has a convention of more importance been held. | SW_v12#06 p.115 | @race unity; racial issues, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3105 | Words spoken on 1914-01-24 | 50 | We do not look at the evil deeds of the people. We do not consider the race, the religion, or nationality | DAS.1914-01-24, SW_v11#02 p.025 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3104 | Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London | 50 | There are two kinds of music, divine and earthly music. Divine music exhilarates the spirit | DAS.1912-12-23, SW_v14#06 p.177 | @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @music and singing | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3103 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 50 | O meine Tochter, lebe das Leben einer Bahá'i und du wirst beständig mit großen Gedanken dich beschäftigen müssen | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transcending the material condition, @spiritual transformation, @nearness to God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3102 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 50 | Yes, it will be necessarily so, for the Kingdom requires it. The King appoints one to be his prime minister, another to be his greatest general | PN_unsorted p021, DLA.040, BLO_PN#026 | @maintainance of degrees in society, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3101 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 50 | There are no earth-bound souls. When the souls that are not good die | LOG#0687x, DLA.035-036, BLO_PN#026 | @soul; spirit after death, @demons and evil spirits, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3100 | 50 | Bahá'í Scriptures | Firstly: The elected members must be religious persons, God-fearing, high-minded and followers of the law. | BSC.424 #767.2x, SW_v07#15 p.138-139 | @elections, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3099 | Words spoken on 1912-05-10 in Washington | 50 | And now you, if you act in accordance with the teachings of Baha'o'llah, may rest assured that you will be aided and confirmed. | COC#0309x, COC#1684x, SW_v08#08 p.103 | @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @call to action, @being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3098 | Words spoken on 1910-01-01 | 50 | The Christ is the central point of the Holy Spirit; he was born of the Holy Spirit... The focus of the rays of the Sun of Reality was Christ... Jesus was the sun and his rays shone upon his disciples through his teachings. | SW_v08#08 p.098 | @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @Manifestation of God as recipient of divine revelation; Holy Spirit, @The Holy Spirit, @Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3097 | 50 | Bahá'í Scriptures | The election of temporary members of the assemblies of the kingdom should depend upon the choice and satisfaction of the public | BSC.424 #767.3x, SW_v07#15 p.139 | @parliaments; constitutional government, @relationship between government and people | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3096 | Words to Jinab-i-Fadil spoken in 1921 | 50 | Do you think that this material food has any effect upon my body? This food has no effect. Only good news from the believers | SW_v14#06 p.180 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @personal instructions, @growth of the Cause, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3095 | Words to Persian students, spoken on 1913-09-03 | 50 | You are very welcome. I was longing to see you... It is very strange that when a face is not illumined with the light of the love of God | DAS.1913-09-03, SW_v08#12 p.143x, ABIE.272x, BLO_PN#007 | @education of children; moral education, @critique of Western values; culture, @alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3094 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 50 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | To man, the Essence of God is incomprehensible, so also are the worlds beyond this, and their condition | AIL.066 | @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @limits of the intellect | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3093 | Words to Florence Khan spoken in 1906 | 50 | …the turning toward God in thought, and a prayer-like appeal from the heart, is prayer, and is heard of God. Words are not necessary, the heart is enough. | SUR.241 | @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer, @law of obligatory prayer | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3092 | Words to Ali-Kuli Khan spoken in 1900 | 50 | There was once a blacksmith in Iran, and to keep his fire going and get the iron red hot | SUR.127 | @stories; anecdotes, @work as worship | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3091 | Words spoken ca. 1911 in London | 50 | It might be so if we were not in the Hands of the great Father who is perfect love and endless mercy. | SAS.105 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @chastisement and requital, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3090 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 50 | A sincere worker in the Cause of God is always assisted by the Divine Spirit when such questions arise. The Truth will flow through you | TDLA.015, BLO_PN#104 | @being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @education and the development of capacity, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3089 | Words to Mrs. Allen, spoken on 1912-10-21 | 50 | Because you have this intention, that is capacity. The intention is capacity. | MAB.064a | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @development of capacity and readiness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3088 | Words spoken in Feb. 1910 | 50 | The Bounty of God is within the heart; it receives the Light... The bounty is dormant or latent in the hearts. Belief and faith make it appear | PN_1910 p002 | @universal human capacity for spiritual recognition, @development of capacity and readiness, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @soul is the essential reality of man, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3087 | Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901 | 50 | By the Justice and judgment of God those who commit evil suffer and are punished for it... But mercy is by far the greatest of the divine attributes and owing to this great mercy of God those who die in their sins are not left without the possibility of attaining to Life. | PN_1901 p010, NRMM.219 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @justice and wrath of God, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @justice and mercy, @soul; spirit after death | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3086 | 50 | The human body is in need of material force, but the spirit has need of the Holy Spirit. | SW_v08#08 p.102x, IHP.062, BLO_PN#046 | @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual transformation, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @true liberty; freedom | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3085 | Words spoken ca. Nov. 1911 in Paris | 50 | All true art is a gift of the Holy Spirit... It is the Sun of Truth, O artist... The Sun of Truth is everywhere. It is shining on the whole world. | CHH.182, BLO_PN#022 | @prayer for spiritual recognition, @light and darkness, @Manifestation of God as sun, @The Holy Spirit, @high station of the arts and sciences | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3084 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-07 | 50 | It is the beholding of the beauty of this perfection in the reality of His own identity. It is from the entity of God to His Own Entity. | DAS.1913-02-07 | @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @creation of the world, @power of love, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3083 | Words spoken ca. 1900 | 50 | Adam is the symbol of the childhood of the race of man. Childhood has not a great capacity, therefore when he put out his hand to take the apple, he had not the capacity to receive such great knowledge as the apple symbolizes. | PN_1900_heh p066 | @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @stories; anecdotes, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3082 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 50 | I once lived in a cave on Mount Carmel. One day I went to the Carmelite Monastery and asked to see someone, saying I had a message to deliver. They refused to see me or hear my message. | TDLA.008, BLO_PN#104 | @suffering and imprisonment, @Mount Carmel, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3081 | Words to Fugeta, Dr. Esslemont et al, spoken on 1920-01-02 | 50 | That is all talk. The Text of the Blessed Book cannot be changed. No one can interfere with it. | PN_1919 p060, PN_1920 p003, PN_1920 p012, PN_1920 p021 | @spirit and form in the administration, @House of Justice, @elections | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3080 | Interview with W.H. Randall, Haifa, 1919-11-18 | 50 | This question will only be solved through the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh... From the association of the white friends with the colored friends the others, people outside the Cause, will learn the meaning. | PN_1919 p017x, BSTW#319 | @race unity; racial issues | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3079 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-03 | 50 | Man must possess the religion of God which is the source of all valour, moral and intellectual. If he has not this, he may have at least, the simple 'natural religion' of humanity. | DAS.1914-12-03 | @courage, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3078 | Words to pilgrims, Haifa, 1914-04 | 50 | In past you must not imagine that the prophets spoke things which the people could not understand. They were very well understood by their contemporaries | TDAB.14 | @outward and inward meanings, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @limits of language | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3077 | Words spoken on 1914-03-06 in Haifa | 50 | Formerly I was so accustomed that I slept in Acca in the same small room with 13 other souls, but now if there sleeps another person in my room I lie awake all night. | DAS.1914-03-06 | @disregarding bodily comfort, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3076 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-26 | 50 | One must never feel superior to anyone else. This feeling of superiority destroys all vestiges of friendship and love. I give thee this rule to be remembered throughout all thy life | DAS.1913-05-26 | @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3075 | Words to Horace Holley, spoken on 1913-05-11 | 50 | I was thinking that during the days of Christ not one word was written about him. We have at the present time four Gospels, two of these were written 60 years after Christ | DAS.1913-05-11 | @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @review of publications, @rational arguments, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @suffering; rejection of Christ | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3074 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-06 | 50 | I do not feel happy in Paris. I do not know whether it is its depressing atmosphere or the effect of the indifference of the people to spiritual things. | DAS.1913-05-06 | @critique of Western values; culture, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3073 | Words spoken over lunch on 1913-04-03 | 50 | I dreamed I was in Tiberias. Along the shore I was living alone in a small cottage which was built with mud bricks | DAS.1913-04-03 | @accounts of dreams and visions, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3072 | Words to two actors, spoken on 1913-04-02 | 50 | The plays should endeavor to elevate the ideals of humanity and not degrade them. The theatre is like unto a school and the playwrights must ever think how to educate his audience | DAS.1913-04-02 | @literature; drama; humanities; the arts | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3071 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-07 | 50 | Nineteen days are according to 19 Letters of the Living which is composed of the Báb and 18 disciples. The aim of this feast | DAS.1913-02-07 | @Nineteen-Day Feast, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Letters of the Living | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3070 | Prayer spoken at children's dinner, Cannongate School in Edinburgh, ca. 1913-01-09 | 50 | O Thou Kind God! These beloved children are created by Thy Mighty Hand. They are the signs of Thy Omnipotence. | DAS.1913-02-27 | @prayer for children and youth, @education of children; moral education, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3069 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 50 | I see the people ... like bees or ants, coming and going by troops, surging past like waves, continually engrossed in their business. | BW_v13p1187 | @critique of Western values; culture, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3068 | Words to Takeshi Kanno, spoken on 1912-10-21 | 50 | The war between Japan and Russia came about after the departure of Bahá'u'lláh, but before these events occurred Bahá'u'lláh often mentioned kindly the name of the Mikado | MAB.064b | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3067 | Words spoken ca. 1911 | 50 | You will retain your individuality and will not be swallowed up in one vast spirit. Concerning the condition of the human soul ...It is exclusively luminous; it has no body; it is a dazzling pencil of light; it is a celestial orb of brightness | SW_v14#02 p.038, PN_1911 p002, PN_1911 p007, BSTW#043a | @existence; immortality of the human soul, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @soul; spirit after death, @the human soul | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3066 | Words spoken in Feb. 1910 | 50 | Both are one. Sometimes it is called heart and sometimes mind: but mind is of two kinds; one is a worldly mind which seeks the livelihood | PN_1910 p002 | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @mind as intermediary between soul and body | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3065 | Words to Mr Kinney, spoken on 1909-07-02 | 50 | There are two ways of taking pictures. These things about here that you have pictured will all pass away, but the true picture is the one you take on the mirror of the heart. | PN_1909 p060, PN_1909D p017 | @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @humor; jokes, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3064 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23 | 50 | There is either a standstill or a progression. There could not be a descent, upon the same principle that a man could not become a babe again. | PN_1909F p061, PN_1909F p115, AKL.008-009 | @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @light and darkness, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3063 | Words to Anna Watson spoken around 1904-10-18 | 50 | I will see what I can do. Finding one, I told him to stay until I brought others to him | BSTW#130, BSTW#173 | @accounts of dreams and visions, @unity; oneness of humanity, @music and singing | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3062 | Words to Mary MacNutt et al in 1904 | 50 | I wish you to become heralds of happiness, because happiness is the cause of progress and development. The appearance of the Manifestations is to bring happiness | PN_1904 p090 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @attaining the life of the spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3061 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-12-30 | 50 | If a man lives a thousand years or achieves the most wonderful service, this does not avail him. If he becomes the most famous man in the world | DAS.1913-12-30 | @chastisement and requital, @attaining good pleasure of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3060 | Words to George Winterburn et al, spoken on 1904-02-07 | 50 | Through the bounty and favor of God think nothing difficult or impossible. God is so bountiful that He brings fire out from the stone | PN_1904 p007, PN_1904 p039, TTAW.010, BLO_PN#102 | @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3059 | Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921 | 50 | Tests are not sent as punishment, but to reveal the soul to itself. Suffering unfolds both the strength and the weakness. | PN_1921 p012, BLO_PN#060 | @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @knowledge of self | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3058 | Words spoken ca. 1916 | 50 | If you have a bed of lilies-of-the-valley that you love and tenderly care for, they cannot see you, nor can they understand your care | CHH.215, BLO_PN#022 | @consolation and comfort, @methods of teaching the Cause, @soul; spirit after death, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3057 | Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21 | 50 | They teach that the internal, spiritual idea is the same in all the religions; that a unique general plan underlies the foundation of the past faiths | DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p005 | @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @priestcraft, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3056 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 50 | Consider with what knowledge His holiness Bahá'u'lláh hath favored the Bahá'ís, that if they are given the whole world they will not deny Christ. They love Christ better than their own lives. | DAS.1914-05-10 | @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3055 | Words to Ali Kuli Khan, spoken on 1906-06-09 | 50 | If a man is not happy in his life, death is better than such a life. True joy comes from the tranquility of [the] heart, and this state comes from faith! | PN_1906 p019, PN_1906 p026, SUR.229-230, BLO_PN#001 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @composure; tranquillity; serenity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3054 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 50 | Giving up everything in the Cause of God and following His Will no matter where it leads. We must not have desire for anything else but God. | TDLA.015, BLO_PN#104 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3053 | Words spoken on 1914-02-27 in Haifa | 50 | The Kingdom of God is like into this garden. It contains many kind of trees. In due season the trees must not only produce leaves and blossoms | DAS.1914-02-27 | @bringing forth results; fruit, @symbolism, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3052 | Words to Madame Scaramuchi, spoken on 1913-02-20 | 50 | The Cause of Bahá'u'lláh is the same as the Cause of Christ. For example this room is now lighted, but someone comes in and turns off the light | DAS.1913-02-20 | @oneness; unity of religion, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3051 | Words spoken in a private home in Chelsea, Sep. 1911 | 50 | All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet | CHH.167-168, BLO_PN#022 | @creativity in art, @literature; drama; humanities; the arts, @music and singing, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3050 | Words to M. R. Shirazi in April 1914 | 50 | One can worship God everywhere, and if only the Christians would go to Moslem mosques and Jewish Synagogues, similarly if the Mahomedans would go to the church | TDAB.17-18 | @oneness; unity of religion, @love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3049 | Words to the ship's doctor, spoken on 1913-12-05 | 50 | Divine civilization is peace, love and unity. The East has been the founder of divine civilization, but the West the spreader of material civilization. | DAS.1913-12-05 | @East and West; communication between East and West, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3048 | 50 | At the gate of the garden some stand and look within, but do not care to enter. Others step inside, behold its beauty, but do not penetrate far. | BW_v11p488, VLAB.158 | L. Thoresen, J. Lenz [track 11], Ladjamaya [track 10] | @degrees of faith; certitude, @spiritual transformation, @condition of search, @scarcity of receptive souls | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3047 | Words to a museum watchman, spoken on 1912-07-09 | 50 | No, I am tired of going about looking at the things of this world: I want to go above and travel and see in the spiritual worlds.... When you go upstairs in a house you do not leave the house. The lower floor is under you. | SW_v16#07 p.582-583, DJT.331, VLAB.125, BLO_PN#027 | @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3046 | Words to Mr. Smiley at Peace Society conference in Lake Mohonk, 1912-05-16 | 50 | Your members may be compared to beams of different metals and you are trying to unite them as you would tie these fingers together with a string. | SW_v19#06 p.182 | @love of God, @unity in diversity, @metallurgical metaphors | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3045 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-12 | 50 | Yes, it means that the dominion of their laws and ordinances covered such periods. The allotted span of human life does not vary from age to age. | AHV.014, BLO_PN#045 | @evolution; human evolution, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @the human body | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3044 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 50 | Good thoughts, good resolves, and good deeds bring men nearer to God, and that is heaven. Hell is the state of mind in which there are evil thoughts | AELT.122-123 | @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @nearness and remoteness, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3043 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-06-12 | 50 | One of the special laws of Bahá'u'lláh is the one prohibiting cursing and defamation, and that all should seek forgiveness from their enemies | SW_v19#07 p.220 | @martyrs and martyrdom, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3042 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 50 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Yes all societies, all organizations, working for the betterment of the human race are good, very good. | AIL.065 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @race unity; racial issues | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3041 | 50 | the kings and rulers of the world are not yet ready to acknowledge that universal peace is conducive to the life of the world of humanity. | SW_v07#15 p.136-137 | @power of faith; power of the spirit, @love and unity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU3040 | Words spoken at Cedar Club in London, 1913-01-02 | 50 | I am very glad to be among you, who are blessed in God's name with children. | SW_v03#18 p.009-010 | @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @education of children; moral education, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3039 | Words to Mr. Lorge, London, 1912-12-20 | 50 | Europe is steeped in a sea of materialism. People are either agnostics or full of religious superstitions | DAS.1912-12-20, SW_v03#19 p.006 | @independent investigation of truth; reality, @praise of Western values; culture, @critique of Western values; culture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3038 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 50 | Es gibt nicht nur in lndicn Kasten und Kastengeist. Das Prinzip der Exklusivitat vergiftet auch heute noch die westlichen Kulturstaaten | SDW v13#11 p.112 | @race unity; racial issues, @Christ; Christianity, @Christian doctrine and practice, @priestcraft, @growth of the Cause, @critique of Western values; culture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3037 | Words spoken on 1914-04-01 | 50 | My happiness was complete in those dark days of imprisonment and vicissitude | DAS.1914-04-01, SW_v08#19 p.240 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3036 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 50 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. | AIL.092 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3035 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 50 | They had philosophers and great men, but while their civilization was full of beauty and was superior to that of the Romans, it was material--neither moral nor spiritual. | DLA.046-047, BLO_PN#026 | @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3034 | Words spoken on 1912-05-12 | 50 | Today the real king is the soul who serves all, and dear is he who exhibits humility toward all humanity. | SW_v07#18 p.188 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3033 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 50 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | It makes no difference whether you have ever heard of Baha'u'llah or not. The man who lives the life according to the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is already a Bahá'í. | AIL.106, BNE.072x | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @words vs deeds, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3032 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 50 | The form of the cross is made by two lines crossing each other at right angles. It is to be found in everything--even in this piece of cloth. It is the symbol of spiritual sacrifice. | DLA.063, BLO_PN#026 | @symbolism, @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3031 | Words to Mr. Reed, spoken on 1912-10-08 | 50 | The teachings of Bahá’u’lláh are not yet evident, not yet made known, not all accumulated. For instance, there are teachings in the Book of Akdas | ECN.522+631+665+1024 | @collection; ordering of the Sacred Writings, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3030 | Words spoken on 1914-06-30 | 50 | I am serving God. I am the servant of God. I give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf | DAS.1914-06-30, SW_v08#15 p.210 | @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @power of the Manifestation of God, @living waters; water of life, @light and darkness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3029 | Words spoken on 1912-04-20 in Washington | 50 | It is true in this country in particular growth in all directions has progressed too rapidly. Moderation should be practiced in all things. Be temperate, even in the size of the ships you build and in their speed; in your railroads and the schedules you expect your trains to maintain. | SW_v19#03 p.087 | @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @principle of balance; moderation; equilibrium | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3028 | Words spoken on 1911-09-23 in London | 50 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | This is the age of woman. She should receive the same education as her brother and enjoy the same privilege | AIL.081 | @material and spiritual existence; two books, @equality of men and women, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @role and station of women, @spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3027 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 50 | Sei nicht Sklave, sondern Herr deiner Stimmungen. Bist du aber so verärgert, so gedrückt, so wund | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @spiritual transformation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @compassion; kindness, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3026 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 50 | It will not be possible in the future for men to amass great fortunes by the labor of others. The rich will willingly divide. | SW_v07#15 p.147, SW_v13#12 p.341, PN_unsorted p076, TDLA.007, BLO_PN#104 | @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @predictions and prophecies, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3025 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-25 | 50 | Persian | وقتی مسلمین رئیس موبدان را بسبب خوردن شراب بتازیانه بستند و زیر تازیانه نعره میزد و می گفت | When the Muslims arrested the leader of the Zoroastrians and flogged him for drinking wine, under the whip he cried, | BDA1.134.13 | SW_v19#08 p.256, MHMD1.145 | @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3024 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 50 | Persian | وقتی که ما آمدیم عکا زحمت های شدیدی داشت آما چقدر خوب بود | When We came to 'Akká, grievous were the hardships, yet how glorious it was! [3.5s] | KHH2.240 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @degrees of faith; certitude, @spiritual transformation, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3023 | Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-17 | 50 | Persian | وقتی بیان جمال مبارک این بود که اگر کسی حیوانات ذبح نکند و بنباتات قناعت نماید البته بهتر است ولی نهی نفرمودند | It is better not to eat meat if one can possibly abstain from it. However, it is impossible at the present stage of human evolution to ask people not to practice meat-eating. | AVK3.032.10x, BDA2.303 | DAS.1913-05-17, MHMD2.400-401 | @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3022 | Words spoken on 1913-01-24 in Paris | 50 | Persian | هر کائنی یک حقیقت دارد مگر انسان که هم حقیقت طبیعی دارد و هم حقیقت روحانی از بسط | He observed that every being possessed one reality, with the exception of humans, who have both a natural reality and a spiritual one | BDA2.103 | MHMD2.125 | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @human reality created in the image of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3021 | Words spoken on 1913-02-04 in Paris | 50 | Persian | هر قوه و استعدادی که در امر الله صرف میشود اثراتش باقی میماند و نتائج باقیه | Every power and ability that is utilized for the Cause of God shall produce perpetually enduring effects and yield eternally abiding results… As to those souls endowed with the power of oratory | BDA2.122 | MHMD2.151 | @the power of words; of speech, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3020 | Words spoken on 1913-01-16 in London | 50 | Persian | مؤثر و مفید است ولی ما بجهت ملاقات فقرا آمدیم نه دیدن ملوک و اُمرا با هر طالبی بکمال محبت | Such a meeting would prove effective and useful. However, we have come to meet with the poor, not to consort with kings and rulers | BDA2.087 | MHMD2.105-106 | @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly, @non-participation in politics, @personal instructions, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3019 | Words to Sepahdar Azam, spoken on 1913-04-20 | 50 | After the ascent of Bahá'u'lláh I was all alone. Enemies within and enemies without had attacked me and a thousand difficulties surrounded me. | DAS.1913-04-20 | @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @Ascension of Baha'u'llah | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3018 | Words to a newspaper publisher, spoken on 1912-04-04 | 50 | Persian | من بر حسب دعوتهای محافل صلح بامریکا میروم زیرا اساس این امر بر صلح عمومیست و وحدت عالم | I am going to America at the invitation of peace congresses, as the fundamental principles of this Cause are universal peace | BDA1.022.06 | DAS.1913-07-20, MHMD1.030, ABIE.089, BLO_PN#007 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @growth of the Cause, @universality of the Cause, @the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3017 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-09-20 | 50 | Persian | من باو نوشتم تو اول کسی بودی از معلمین و مولفین اروپا که بساحت اقدس مشرف شدی | I wrote to him [E.G. Browne], saying 'You are the first European teacher and author to have attained His Blessed Presence. Do not lose this distinction.' He did not understand me | BDA1.259.13 | MHMD1.278 | @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @predictions and prophecies, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3016 | Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-09-18 | 50 | Persian | مسائل و احکام دین الله بر دو قسم است قسمی اساس اصلی احکام روحانیه و اصول سعادت بشریه و تحسین اخلاق | The laws and commandments of God are of two kinds: one set is composed of those essential spiritual principles which are the basis for human prosperity | BDA1.255.03 | MHMD1.273 | @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3015 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-07-29 | 50 | Persian | مردم چه قدر اسیر اوهامند محض شهرت و نام چه زحمتها می کشند این اوهام چه انجا می خواهد داشت جمیع شئون محو و فانی و نابود | What captives of superstitions people are! What troubles they endure for the sake of name and fame! What fruit will these superstitions bear? | BDA1.171.01 | MHMD1.185-186 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @empty learning; false spirituality, @development of capacity and readiness, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3014 | Public address given on 1912-09-02 | 50 | Persian | مدنیت مادی صنایع ترقی نموده علوم و فنون توسیع یافته همین قسم اسباب حرب و قتال و خونریزی و هدم بنیان انسانی | Because of material civilization, industry has progressed and sciences and arts have burgeoned but at the same time weapons of war and bloodshed | BDA1.222.15 | MHMD1.239 | @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3013 | Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-27 | 50 | Persian | مبدء و مأب من آستان مقدس است انچه داریم از ان درگاهست و عودمان باو اگر عون و عنایت او نبود این نفوس | My beginning and my end, the place from which I start and the place to which I return is the Holy Threshold. What I have is from that Threshold | BDA1.136.14 | SW_v19#08 p.256, MHMD1.147 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3012 | Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-19 | 50 | Persian | ما محافل وفا را دوست داریم نه مناظر با صفا و اما وفا اول باید بخدا و اوامر و عهد او نمود | We love meetings of fidelity and not picturesque scenes. We must first be faithful to God, to His ordinances and Covenant and to His servants | BDA1.128.08 | SW_v19#08 p.254, MHMD1.137 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3011 | Words spoken in Dec. 1919 | 50 | Persian | ما دولت عادله را دوست داریم هر دولتی باشد پادشاه قدیم ایران انوشروان اگر چه | Verily we cherish every just government, whatsoever it may be, even as the ancient Persian sovereign Anoshirvan, though he was [3.5s] | NJB_v11#19 p.342 | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3010 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-08-23 | 50 | Persian | ما در اینجا کارتان را تمام کردیم تخمی کشتیم نفوس خیلی منجذب شدند و منقلب گشتند | We have finished our work here. We have sown a seed. Many souls have been attracted and transformed. | BDA1.203.10 | SW_v19#11 p.350, MHMD1.219-220 | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @growth of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3009 | Words spoken at Golden Circle Club in Boston, 1912-07-24 | 50 | Persian | لسان عربی لسان عمومی نمیشود ولی چند هفته پیش نامه ئی از نیویورک بیکی از رؤسای اسپرانتو نوشتم که اگر مجمعی از وکلای اجناس و ملوک فراهم کنند | A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter from New York to one of the promoters of Esperanto | BDA1.165.06 | SW_v19#10 p.309, MHMD1.179-180 | @universal language | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3008 | Words to Sarah Farmer, spoken on 1912-08-21 | 50 | Green Acre must be made the center for the investigation of reality, not that everybody should come and use it as a place of propaganda for his own ideas and benefits. The Shining Reality which is the Spirit of the world today is One and not many. | SW_v19#12 p.380 | @oneness; unity of religion, @unity of thought and belief | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3007 | 50 | Persian | قرة العین که معروف آفاق است وقتی که مؤمن بخدا شد منجذب بنفحات الهی گشت | The Point of the Eye, who became renowned throughout all regions, when she believed in God, was drawn unto the divine fragrances [3.5s] | ASAT4.496a | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3006 | Words spoken on 1913-03-21 in Paris | 50 | Persian | قبل از بعثت رسول الله ص تعدد زوجات بین اعراب چنان رواج و کثرتی داشت که دفعةً ممکن نبود | Prior to the revelation of the Prophet Muhammad, the Apostle of God, the practice of polygamy was so prevalent | BDA2.193 | MHMD2.246 | @laws of marriage and dowry, @Islamic laws and jurisprudence, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3005 | 50 | Persian | عرس العرب فی البادیة بسیط جداًالعرس یقف علی حجرٍ والعروس تقف علی حجراٍ | The marriage of the Bedouin in the desert is exceedingly simple: the bridegroom standeth upon one stone and the bride upon another [3.5s] | ASAT4.071 | @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @equality of men and women | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU3004 | Words spoken on 1915-07-24 in Haifa | 50 | Persian | طهارت و نظافت از لوازم ایمان است. انسان وقتی که لباسش نظیف است، لطیف است، روحانیت پیدا می کند | Cleanliness and purity are among the requisites of faith. When man's garments are clean, his soul becometh refined and a spiritual condition is made manifest [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-07-24 | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @cleanliness and refinement | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU3003 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-24 | 50 | Persian | صحت جسمانی اهمیت ندارد اهمیت در صحت روحانیست که تأثیر و لذت ابدی دارد | Bodily health is not important. What is more important is spiritual health which gives eternal pleasure and has everlasting effect. | BDA1.133.16 | SW_v19#08 p.256, MHMD1.144 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @transcending the material condition, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @disregarding bodily comfort, @moderation; frugality; simplicity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3002 | Words spoken on 1913-08-13 in Ramleh | 50 | One day a layman went to a Mullah and asked several questions. The Mullah did not answer him. | DAS.1913-08-13, ABIE.186, BLO_PN#007 | @humor; jokes, @stories; anecdotes, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU3001 | Words to the friends spoken in Dec. 1907 | 50 | Persian | سبب خذلانش گردید چون برای خاک میجنگید خاک که انزل موجودات است ولی | It caused his demise, because he was fighting for soil, which is the least worthy thing in creation. However, the migration and wandering of Abraham | KHH1.019 (1.027) | KHHE.040-041 | @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3000 | Words spoken on 1913-02-03 in Paris | 50 | Persian | دیروز بدیدن اطفال فقرا رفتیم جای بسیار محقری داشتند ولی چون مراجعت میکردیم | We went to visit the children of some poor souls yesterday and saw their pitiful living conditions. As we were returning | BDA2.120 | MHMD2.149-150 | @critique of Western values; culture, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2999 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-05 | 50 | Persian | در ممالک امریکا تخمی افشانده شد نفوس خیلی بحرکت و هیجان آمدند دیگر تا خدا چه خواهد | A seed has been planted in the states of America. Many people have become stirred and roused to excitement. | BDA2.011 | MHMD2.013 | @detachment in teaching the Cause, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2998 | Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-28 | 50 | The science of aviation will make great progress in the immediate future and people will travel at ease from one city to another | DAS.1913-03-28, BSTW#093d | @predictions and prophecies, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2997 | Words to the friends spoken in Dec. 1907 | 50 | Persian | در بغداد یکروز جمال مبارک از جسر عبور میفرمودند شخصی بحضور مبارک عرض کرد که از | When He had returned to Baghdad, one day the Blessed Perfection was passing over a bridge and someone mentioned to His blessed Person that a letter was received from Mosul | KHH1.035 (1.049) | KHHE.066-067 | @growth of the Cause, @stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2996 | Words spoken on 1913-05-14 in Paris | 50 | Persian | در این محل جمیع اشیا در منتها درجهٴ نمایش و لطافت که نتیجه و کمال خلقت آنهاست مشهودند | All things in this place can be seen in their utmost degree of beauty and elegance, and it is evident that they have fulfilled the purpose of their creation | BDA2.300 | MHMD2.396 | @development of capacity and readiness, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @purpose; goal of creation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2995 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-17 | 50 | Persian | در ایام جمال مبارک من ابداً مایل به تحریر نبودم بدرجه ئی که از اطراف احباء گله می کردند | In the days of the Blessed Beauty, I never had a desire to write. The friends even complained about it. | BDA1.126.07 | MHMD1.135 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2994 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 50 | Persian | حالا وقت آنستکه آنچه در دل داری بگوئی زیرا تا بحال فرصتی حاصل نشده که بتوانم شما را ملاقات و بدرد های دلت برسم | Now is the time for thee to reveal that which lieth within thy heart, for until this hour no opportunity hath been vouchsafed Me to meet with thee and to attend to the sorrows of thy heart [3.5s] | KHMT.092 | @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2993 | Public address given on 1912-09-02 | 50 | Persian | چون نفوس تربیت یافته می بینند که کشیشها نان و شراب را در دست گرفته نفسی بآن می دمند و می گویند | When educated people see the priests taking bread and wine in their hands, blowing a few breaths over them and saying | BDA1.221.15 | MHMD1.238 | @Christian doctrine and practice, @confession of sins, @critique of Western values; culture, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2992 | Words spoken on 1913-01-28 in Paris | 50 | Persian | چون کِرم مهین در قعر زمینند و بیخبر از عالم علیین و جمیع حضار را بتوجه بملکوت ابهی | They [the people of Paris] are like the pitiable worms that dwell in the depths of the earth, unaware of the supernal realm | BDA2.110 | MHMD2.135 | @purpose; goal of creation, @soul; spirit after death, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2991 | Words spoken on 1915-04-06 in Abu Sinan | 50 | Persian | چقدر ناس از آفات جسمانی اضطراب دارند و از آفت | It is amazing that people are afraid of physical afflictions, but have no worries of spiritual handicaps. | KHH1.204 (1.285) | KHHE.298-299, BSR_v13 p.096 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2990 | Words spoken on 1916-05-01 in Bahji | 50 | Persian | جمال مبارک یک وقت فرمودند من نه سال است یک برگ سبز ندیده ام. حال الحمدالله احباء در بهترین نقطهٴ این ارض | The Blessed Beauty once declared: "For nine years have I not beheld a single verdant leaf." Now, praise be to God, the loved ones dwell in the most beauteous spot of this earth [3.5s] | ZSM.1916-05-01 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @Shrines and Holy places, @suffering and imprisonment | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2989 | Words spoken on 1914-02-14 | 50 | Persian | جمال مبارک ذکر خراسان را میفرمودند که این امر مبارک آنجا نشر خواهد یافت همه | The Blessed Beauty made mention of Khurasan, saying that this blessed Cause would be diffused throughout that land, wholly and entirely [3.5s] | AVK4.434.02 | @prophecy and fulfillment, @growth of the Cause, @predictions and prophecies, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2987 | Words to Mirza Munir, spoken on 1912-03-26 | 50 | Persian | بیچاره گمنام شد و در ملک و ملکوت ذلیل گردید چه عزتی داشت ولی چون قدر ندانست | The poor man [Kheiralla] has become nameless and debased both in this world and in the Kingdom. What a high honor he had! | BDA1.011.01 | MHMD1.016 | @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2986 | Public address given on 1912-09-13 | 50 | Persian | بودن مدنیت الهیه اسرار ملکوت ظاهر نگردد فیوضات روحانیه تحقق نجوید حکمت و قوهٴ ماورآء الطبیعه جلوه ننماید | With[out] divine civilization the mysteries of the Kingdom are not revealed and the bounties of heaven are not ascertained; supernatural wisdom and power to not manifest themselves | BDA1.243.09 | MHMD1.260 | @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2985 | Words spoken on 1919-12-09 | 50 | Persian | بلی اهالی ایتالیا متعصبند وقتیکه وارد ناپولی | Every year, on the occasion of the arrival of the New Year, the Pope would deliver a sermon in the church. One year he invited the Italian king to attend this ceremony. | NJB_v11#19 p.341b | STAB#050 | @the Christian clergy | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2984 | Words to Miss Fraser, spoken on 1913-03-29 | 50 | Yes! But His sadness did not come from anything belonging to Himself. He desired to make a man illumined, but man preferred darkness | DAS.1913-03-29, SW_v16#11 p.713, ADP.073-074 | @suffering and imprisonment, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2983 | Words spoken on 1913-05-12 in Paris | 50 | Persian | بعضی از نفوس آنچه از کأس عرفان مینوشند هل من مزید میگویند بعضی بالعکس بدیدن | There are those who, after drinking from the cup of true knowledge, say, 'Is there yet any more?' Conversely, there are others who, upon seeing a mirage | BDA2.297 | MHMD2.392 | @independent investigation of truth; reality, @development of capacity and readiness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual transformation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @suffering; rejection of Christ | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2982 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-09-09 | 50 | Persian | بصریح انجیل در ظهور اول هم با انکه آن حضرت از مریم متولد شده بود | The Gospel expressly records that in His first coming, although Christ was born to Mary, He Himself said that He came from heaven. Thus, the meaning of 'heaven' is the greatness of the Cause | BDA1.234.11 | MHMD1.251 | @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @symbolism, @power of the Manifestation of God, @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2981 | Words spoken in Washington, 1912-05-08 | 50 | Persian | بسبب ندانستن آنگونه معانی همیشه ملل از مظاهر فیوضات علة العلل محتجب می گشتند | Through their ignorance of these meanings people have always remained veiled | BDA1.077.x | MHMD1.086 | @literal interpretation, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @symbolism, @material and spiritual existence; two books | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2980 | Words to a Persian student, spoken on 1914-06-24 | 50 | Thou must strive day by day so that the fire of the Love of God may burn brighter and brighter upon the censer of thy heart | DAS.1914-06-24 | @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @study; deepening, @love of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @effort; striving | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2979 | Words to a man who had lost both legs, spoken on 1912-11-09 | 50 | Persian | آنچه از جسم کاسته شود نقصی بر روح وارد نیاید این یکی از دلائل بقای روح است چه که موت عبارت از تبدیل و تشتیت اعضا و عناصر جسمانی است | Mutilation of the body brings no harm to the soul. This is one of the proofs of the immortality of the soul | BDA1.364.02 | MHMD1.382 | @the human soul, @proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @relationship of the soul to the body, @existence; immortality of the human soul | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2978 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-26 | 50 | Persian | این را هم در حاشیهٴ کتاب بنویسید که وقتی خواهد آمد که آن خانواده باسم مسس کروک و ایمانش فخر نمایند حالا شوهرش قدری دور و غافل است | Write this in the margin of the book: The time will come when her whole family will be proud of Mrs Krug and her faith. | BDA1.167.10 | MHMD1.182 | @predictions and prophecies, @growth of the Cause, @praise and encouragement, @high station of the true believer | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2977 | Instructions for Baha'is in the United States, 1916-06-25 | 50 | Persian | ای دوستان حقیقی، ای اهل توحید، جناب محمود خان یار موافقست و بر ایمان ثابت و راسخ به جهت تحصیل علوم | O true friends! O people of divine unity! His honor Mahmud Khan is a faithful companion, steadfast and firm in faith for the acquisition of knowledge [3.5s] | ZSM.1916-06-25 | @praise and encouragement | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2976 | Address to the Baha'is at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-06-13 | 50 | Persian | اول در باب اختلاف بین احباء که حضرت بهاءالله فرموده اند که هر گاه اهل بهاء اختلاف کنند | Baha'u'llah declared that should Baha'ís dispute, even if it be regarding Baha'u'llah Himself, both are wrong. | AVK4.307, BDA1.123.05 | SW_v19#07 p.220, MHMD1.131-132 | @House of Justice, @contention and conflict, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2975 | Words spoken on 1913-03-15 in Paris | 50 | Persian | اهالی پاریس را مثل زنبور و موری می‌بینم که فوج فوج میآیند و میروند و مانند موج در حرکت | I regard the people of Paris even as bees or ants, coming and going in clusters, surging to and fro like a wave | BDA2.183 | MHMD2.232 | @critique of Western values; culture, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2974 | Words to Mr Schwarz, spoken on 1913-04-03 | 50 | Persian | امیدوارم سُرور ما ابدی باشد در جمیع عوالم الهیه با هم باشیم در ظل عنایت حضرت بهآءالله | I hope that our happiness may last forever--that we may be together throughout all the realms of God | BDA2.214-215 | MHMD2.277 | @soul; spirit after death, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2973 | Words spoken on 1913-01-23 in Paris | 50 | Persian | اگر قائم مقام را نکشته بودند ایران ویران نمیشد و اگر نصائح الهیه را شنیده بودند | Had they not killed the Qa’im-Maqam, Persia would never have fallen into ruin | SFI18.275-276, BDA2.102 | MHMD2.125, LOIR20.172 | @past, present and future of Iran, @East and West; communication between East and West | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2972 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-09-14 | 50 | Persian | اگر جمال مبارک قیام و امرالله را بلند نمی فرمودند امر حضرت نقطهٴ اولی بکلی محو شده بود | If the Blessed Perfection had not exerted Himself to raise up the Cause of God, the Cause of the Primal Point would have been completely effaced... All the affairs and conditions of the world serve the Cause of God... With this type of sacrifice they attained success. But remember | BDA1.245.03 | MHMD1.262-263 | @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2971 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 50 | Persian | اگر باین صفات رحمانی متصف شویم عنقریب مقصد کلی که عبارت از اتحاد | If we become adorned with these attributes of the All-Merciful, ere long shall the ultimate purpose, which is none other than unity, be attained [3.5s] | KHH2.242-243 | @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2970 | 50 | Persian | اطاعت اوامر دولت بر هر بهائی واجب است وگرنه خطر بر همهٴ هیئت | Obedience unto the ordinances of the government is binding upon every Bahá'í, else peril shall encompass the entire body [3.5s] | ASAT3.257 | @obedience to and respect for government authority, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2969 | Words spoken on 1913-04-01 in Stuttgart | 50 | Persian | استعداد شما سبب شد که خدا مرا باستتکارت فرستاد تا بملکوت بهآءالله ندا کنم | Your receptivity is the reason God has sent me to Stuttgart, that here I might cry out: 'How blessed is this day!' | BDA2.210 | BBBD.201, MHMD2.270 | @growth of the Cause, @power of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2968 | Words spoken on 1913-02-12 in Paris | 100 | Persian | از هر طرف اعدا مهاجمند نمی‌بینید یحیائیها چه میکنند آرام برای ما نگذاشته‌اند | Our enemies have beset us on all sides. Do you not see what the Azalis are doing?... How strange it is that such prayers as these should be intoned | BDA2.131 | MHMD2.164 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2967 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-10-30 | 50 | Universal Peace is the best panacea for the diseases of the Islamic world | DAS.1913-10-30 | @war and peace, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @universal peace; world unity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2966 | Words spoken in Dec. 1919 | 50 | Persian | اراء ملت امریکا در این مسئله مختلف است گروهی هستند میگویند از برای خدمت عالم انسانی چنگ کردیم | The views of the American people concerning this matter are diverse; there are those who declare: "We have taken up arms for the service of the human race." [3.5s] | NJB_v11#19 p.341a | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2965 | Words spoken at German hostel in Tiberias, 1916-08-30 | 50 | Persian | ادراکات بر دو قسم است، قسمی مبنی بر حواس خمسه و قسمی مبنی بر قوای معقوله. قوای حساسه آلتی است از برای عقل | Perceptions are of two kinds: the one founded upon the five senses, and the other founded upon the rational faculties. The powers of sensation are but instruments for the mind [3.5s] | ZSM.1916-08-30 | @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2964 | Words spoken on 1913-01-19 in London | 60 | The object of all the prophets has been the purification of the souls... Today we are standing before the illimitable sea; let us not deprive ourselves. | DAS.1913-01-19, SW_v09#14 p.162x | @spiritual transformation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2962 | 60 | When I was a little boy in Teheran I was followed and beaten by the boys and the | SW_v09#18 p.201, PTIM.054 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU2961 | Words spoken on 1914-07-08 in Akka | 60 | Man must be tireless in his effort. Once his effort is directed in the proper channel, if he does not succeed today he shall succeed tomorrow. | DAS.1914-07-08, SW_v08#02 p.021 | @effort; striving, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @chastisement and requital, @fulfillment of true potential | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2960 | Words spoken on 1913-09-04 in Ramleh | 60 | Chastity and purity of life are the two divine standards of the spiritual and moral law. | DAS.1913-09-04, SW_v08#02 p.026, ABIE.277, BLO_PN#007 | @courtesy; culture [adab], @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @chastity and purity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2959 | Words spoken in 1912 in London | 60 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | No, it will come about gradually. A plant that grows too quickly lasts but a short time. | COC#1607x, AIL.106 | @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2958 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 60 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Mankind needs a universal motive power to quicken it. The inspired messenger who is directly assisted | AIL.089 | @return of Christ; second coming of Christ, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @need for an educator, @growth of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2957 | Words spoken in Akka, 1899-02-26 | 60 | There are three kinds of visions or dreams. First, those that arise from over-excited nerves, or disordered stomach | SW_v14#07 p.211, PN_1899 p009, NRMM.170 | @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @development of capacity and readiness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2956 | Words to Mrs Thornburg-Cropper | 60 | There are seasons in the revelation from God, as in the natural year, and just as the Christ manifested the Spirit of God in the flesh | SW_v13#12 p.342 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @Christ; Christianity, @Manifestation of God as divine physician | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2955 | Words spoken on 1914-02-14 | 60 | Indeed God's ways are most mysterious and unsearchable. What outward relation | DAS.1914-02-14, SW_v08#13 p.178-179 | @prophecy and fulfillment, @banishment to; life in Adrianople, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @banishments of Baha'u'llah | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2954 | Words spoken on 1909-02-22 | 60 | This material food was very simple, just enough for life, but that the spiritual food was varied and abundant | AKL.012 | @material and spiritual existence; two books, @symbolism, @Christian doctrine and practice, @condition of search | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2953 | Words spoken on 1912-10-04 in San Francisco | 60 | Nature is worshipped by scientists because of the wonderful laws found there, but did you ever realize that Nature is very imperfect, is almost chaotic, until man inspired of the Spirit comes to direct her. | ECN.754 | @perfection; imperfection of nature, @power of the mind over nature, @need for an educator | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2952 | Words spoken in 1912 in Paris | 60 | For this is the Radiant Century, the time when deeds must take the place of words. Blessed is that soul which does not attach itself to transient conditions | SAS.108-109 | @consolation and comfort, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @words vs deeds | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2951 | Words spoken ca. 1911 in London | 60 | No nation ever advances beyond the point of progress to which its women have attained; the two legs belong to the one body. | SAS.097 | @role and station of women | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2950 | 60 | The Bahá’í message is a call to religious unity and not an invitation to a new religion, not a new path to immortality. | SW_v15#02 p.028, DWN_v5#02 p.002 | @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @oneness; unity of religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU2949 | Words spoken on 1913-07-08 in Port Said | 60 | Bahá'í Scriptures | There is a power in this Cause, a mysterious power, far, far, far away from the ken of men and angels | DAS.1913-07-08, BSC.304 #622, SW_v07#05 p.034, SW_v11#14 p.243, ABIE.039, BLO_PN#007 | @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @spiritual transformation, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2948 | Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910 | 60 | Jede Krankheit fasse zuerst als Läuterung auf und bedenke, daß in jeder Krankheit der Segen der Einsamkeit liegt | SDW v13#10 p.103 | @presence of; reunion with God, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @Mosaic imagery | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2947 | Words to Corinne True spoken in 1907 | 60 | we must look upon every human being we saw as a letter from the Beloved to us.... No matter how blotted, blurred, torn or soiled that letter appears to be | SW_v13#10 p.284 | @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @love and unity, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2946 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 60 | They come from other minds: they are reflected. One should not become a mirror for them--to reflect them, neither should one try to control them | LOG#1730x, DLA.035, BLO_PN#026 | @power of imagination; thought; right intention, @spiritual transformation, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2945 | Words spoken in Dec. 1912 in London | 60 | This world is a theatre. It is not an eternal world: it is a stage where every kind of play is enacted. | SFQ.231 | @things are known by their opposites, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2944 | Words to a group of Americans spoken in 1913 | 60 | I have planted the Seeds in America. You must nurture them and care for them. | SW_v04#15 p.256, BSTW#324 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @growth of the Cause, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized), @call to action | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2943 | Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21 | 60 | The true, liberal, religious spirit is more in evidence in America…. The Baha'is are a community of cooperative servants, they have no leader. Their only leader is God. | DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.013-014, PN_1914 p005 | @praise of Western values; culture, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2942 | Words to Tamaddunu'l-Mulk, spoken on 1911-08-25 | 60 | Once, when I lived in Baghdad, I was invited to the house of a poor thorn-picker. In Baghdad the heat is greater even than in Syria | AIF.1911-08-25, SW_v08#13 p.167, PN_1909B p031, DJT.171, BLO_PN#027, STAB#089 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @hospitality, @humility; meekness; lowliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2941 | Words to Fugeta, Dr. Esslemont et al, spoken on 1920-01-02 | 60 | That is passed now. An arrow that has been shot does not return to the bow... That rests with the delegates to the Convention, delegates only - not strangers. The Convention is like a parliament. | PN_1919 p059, PN_1920 p003, PN_1920 p012, PN_1920 p021 | @consultation, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @business; financial; property matters, @House of Justice, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2940 | Words to Fugeta et al, spoken on 1920-01-01 | 60 | They mean the same. It is one reality. The names are different. We must consider it according to its use. | PN_1919 p059 | @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @soul is the essential reality of man, @the human soul | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2939 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-19 | 60 | A person must be rapid in motion and not slow and tortoise-like. You see, I take always Khosro and Mirza Ahmad with me, because they move rapidly... Train yourselves to be always in time no matter where you are. | DAS.1914-12-19 | @effort; striving, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @courtesy; culture [adab] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2938 | Words spoken on 1914-07-08 in Akka | 60 | Man must be freed from every material tie... Praising one's self is the sign of selfishness. Commanding others is not the passport to the realm of spiritual progress | DAS.1914-07-08, SW_v07#18 p.185x, SW_v14#06 p.165x | @words vs deeds, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2937 | Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias | 60 | All the believers of God must be teachers; each individual Bahá'í must know how to deliver the Message of the Kingdom. | DAS.1914-06-01 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2936 | Words to Ibn-i-Asdaq, spoken on 1913-11-27 | 60 | Tell me how is the condition of Teaching? Do the believers Teach? This is that which the Blessed Perfection has required | DAS.1913-11-27 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @universality of the Cause, @priority over other activities in teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2935 | Words to Madame Laheebe Hashem, spoken on 1913-10-24 | 60 | Be thou kind to all mankind. Try thy utmost to alleviate their burdens. Enlighten the minds with the light of knowledge. | DAS.1913-10-24 | @education of children; moral education, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @love and unity, @role and station of women, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2934 | Words spoken on 1913-10-02 in Ramleh | 60 | I consider him [Tolstoi] a Bahá'í, a real Bahá'í, because he lived and acted in accord with the good-pleasure of Bahá'u'lláh | DAS.1913-10-02 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @review of publications, @wealth inequality and its moderation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2933 | Words spoken on 1913-09-19 in Ramleh | 60 | When one goes out to teach he should think of all these things. He must be prepared at all times for whatever comes in the path of God. | DAS.1913-09-19, ABIE.338, PN_1913 p014, BLO_PN#007 | @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2932 | Words spoken on 1913-08-30 in Ramleh | 60 | I am trying to make amends for the past. I am devoting all my time to the Oriental friends. | DAS.1913-08-30, ABIE.256, BLO_PN#007 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @personal instructions, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2931 | Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-09 | 60 | Under all circumstances, I am happy and well. I am never unwell. The body of man is the result of the composition of the elements and these elements are constantly at war with each other. | DAS.1913-05-09 | @composition and decomposition, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @relationship of the soul to the body | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2929 | Words to Consul Schwartz and Dr Faber, spoken on 1913-04-29 | 60 | The greatest need of Europe is the organization of a European congress in which the delegates of various powers may discuss seriously the possibility of immediate, concurrent disarmament | DAS.1913-04-29 | @petitions to authorities, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace, @parliaments; constitutional government, @true liberty; freedom | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2928 | Words to the wife of Counsel Schwartz, spoken on 1913-04-04 | 60 | You must let the children study that which they like best. If your daughter loves art, she can devote her time to it and surely she will succeed. | DAS.1913-04-04 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @humor; jokes, @creativity in art, @education of children; moral education | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2927 | Words to Madame D'astre, spoken on 1913-01-29 | 60 | When a person is a light sleeper, one single touch will awake him, if he sleeps heavily, then one must awake him by shaking him... if even this will not awake the sleeper we will then have to use dynamite. | DAS.1913-01-29 | @call to action, @spiritual transformation, @growth of the Cause, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2926 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 60 | In the world of man love is the brightness of the beauty of God. If there be no love, this is the animal's kingdom | BW_v13p1187 | @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @love and unity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @man's distinction from the animal | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2925 | Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary | 60 | It has been revealed in the Teachings that work is worship, but this does not mean that worship and the prescribed mentionings of God should be abandoned | BW_v13p1187 | @power of prayer, @work as worship, @importance of prayer, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2924 | Words to some Indians, spoken on 1912-10-11(?) | 60 | Prophets do not comprehend the God Essence. To comprehend the Sun of Reality we would have to be greater (than the Sun)... The Mirror of the Prophet cannot expand sufficiently to comprehend the Infinite. | PN_1912 p015 | @inability of the Manifestation; Prophet to comprehend God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2923 | Words to Mr. Remey, spoken on 1912-04-20 | 60 | to many people the great Pyramid was the most to be admired structure in Egypt, but to him it had always produced an unpleasing impression, for it recalled to his mind the intense suffering of the thousands of slaves | PN_1912 p060 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @soul is the essential reality of man | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2922 | Words to Juliet Thompson et al, spoken on 1911-08-27 | 60 | Others are passing from an immortal to a mortal kingdom, but the Bahá'ís are journeying, in the Ark of the Covenant, from a mortal to an immortal world. | AIF.1911-08-27, PN_1909B p034, DJT.186, BLO_PN#027 | @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @spiritual transformation, @attaining the life of the spirit, @firmness in the Covenant | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2921 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-04 | 60 | In this prayer we have just read, Bahá'u'lláh meant Abdul-Hamid, the Turkish Sultan who has lately been dethroned. | PN_1909 p031, PN_1909B p013 | @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2920 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-02 | 60 | Our real happiness is in the Kingdom. Here we seek no happiness, because in this world happiness does not exist. If you consider, you will see that people are in trouble. | PN_1909 p004, PN_1909 p077, PN_1909B p008 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2919 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-25 | 60 | It is not a duty incumbent upon them; it is not obligatory, but if they have no special demand upon their time, the believers must be present at the meetings.... In such meetings, that is to say, the meetings which are open to the public | PN_1909F p066, PN_1909F p123, AKL.009-010 | @love of God, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @importance of community building | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2918 | Words to departing pilgrims spoken in June 1906 | 60 | Though I had not time to answer all the letters you brought from your cities, you are the true letters that I send unto them as answer. For there are two kinds of letters | PN_1906 p073, SUR.274, BLO_PN#001 | @outward and inward meanings | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2917 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 60 | You are near to God, and day by day you will progress by the knowledge of God toward spiritual joy. Then you will be a source of guidance to others. | TDLA.039, BLO_PN#104 | @spiritual transformation, @nearness to God, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @being a source of light; guidance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2916 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 60 | The Blessed Perfection has revealed a Tablet called 'Tablet of the Spiritual World.' All who read it are filled with an anxious desire to leave this world | TDLA.007-008, BLO_PN#104 | @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @challenging nature; abstruseness of the Word of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2915 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 60 | Teach them as the truths contained in their own religion... It is your sufferings and your faith in God which have brought you to the true spiritual insight | AELT.138 | @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East, @methods of teaching the Cause, @oneness; unity of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2914 | Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04 | 60 | The abomination of desolation is the one who appears and tries to destroy the Truth and who makes some changes in the teachings of God. | PN_1901 p023 | @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2913 | Words spoken ca. 1900 | 60 | It does not mean that Christ shall stand in person and speak with kings and princes. | PN_1900 p060, PN_unsorted p147 | @differences in human capacity, @symbolism, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @development of capacity and readiness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2912 | Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London | 60 | The Cause of God is like unto a house. As long as man has not entered therein he does not know what it contains. | DAS.1912-12-23 | @symbolism, @love of God, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2911 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 60 | See how the enemies of Christ persecuted and crucified Him, yet He loved them all. Man is like a tree. The tree lives to produce fruit. The fruit of man is love. | TDLA.020, BLO_PN#104 | @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @love of God, @bringing forth results; fruit, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2910 | Words to Waite, Harrison et al, spoken on 1909-10-12 | 60 | Did this occur when both were in service for the Cause?... Two human beings may live side by side, may be closely related, and yet be very far apart. Their souls may never meet. And two souls may be attracted instantly | PN_1909C p015, PN_unsorted p156 | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @love and unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2909 | Words to Aline Shane-Devin spoken on 1907-10-14 | 60 | The spirit results from the union of body and soul; this spirit becomes immortal, always remaining with the soul and forming for it, after death, a sort of ethereal body. There is a human spirit and a divine spirit | SW_v14#01 p.009x, PN_1907 p016 | @relationship of the soul to the body, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2908 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 60 | Vanity is a form of egotism, an excessive desire for notice of approval of one's personal appearance or deeds. It is self-conceit and self-hypnotization. | DAS.1914-05-10 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @Satan; the Evil One | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2907 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-02-28 | 60 | A wise man must adapt himself as quickly as possible to every environment. If he is disgruntled and complains he will make his life miserable | DAS.1914-02-28 | @acquiescence and resignation; contentment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2906 | Words spoken in Jun. 1906 | 60 | The House of Justice is so mighty an organization that no one shall have the right to resist or oppose it. By that is meant the Universal House of Justice. | PN_1906 p045, SUR.248, BLO_PN#001 | @House of Justice, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2905 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 60 | Be firm in the West! Let the foundation principles of this Truth become deep-rooted. Hold fast until the fullness of Reality comes to you. | TDLA.005-006, BLO_PN#104 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @growth of the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2904 | Words spoken on 1914-10-07 in Haifa | 60 | Youthfulness depends upon the heart and spirit and not upon the physical body of man. You may find often a young man who may look a thousand years old. | PN_1914 p039 | @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @hospitality, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2903 | Words spoken on 1914-07-01 | 60 | One must always use the simplest and most direct words, that the meaning may be easily conveyed to the minds of the hearers. In writing, we must use the same style | DAS.1914-07-01 | @methods of teaching the Cause, @the power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2902 | Words spoken on 1914-06-04 in Tiberias | 60 | The Greek people are scattered all over the world. No matter where you go, you find a number of them engaged in divers lines of human activities. | DAS.1914-06-04 | @excellence; distinction, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2901 | Words to Mr Crewe of Newfoundland, spoken on 1913-03-03 | 60 | O Thou Kind God! We are Thy humble servants; endear us in Thy Kingdom! We are poor; enrich us through Thy heavenly Treasury! We are ignorant, suffer us to become informed | DAS.1913-03-03 | @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @love of God, @spiritual transformation, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2900 | Words to pilgrims in June 1906 | 60 | Bahá'u'lláh has said that whoever has an art or handicraft, it is incumbent upon him to endeavor to develop it to the point of perfection - even though that art be as humble as that of weaving coarse straw matting. | PN_1906 p074, SUR.232, BLO_PN#001 | @heaven and paradise; heaven and hell, @perfection; imperfection of nature, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @excellence; distinction, @work as worship | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2899 | Words spoken on 1913-11 ca. in Ramleh | 60 | This is not good. Why do they stop so suddenly the wheels of evolution? The body is composed of so many elements | DAS.1913-11-04 | @law of burial and cremation, @law of transformation and change, @composition and decomposition | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2898 | Words to Louis Gregory, spoken on 1911-04-10 | 60 | There are four classes of people. The first is those who have accepted the teachings and occupy themselves spreading the Glad Tidings. The second is those who are good believers | AHV.009, BLO_PN#045 | @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2897 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-08 | 60 | Although our assembly tonight at this table numbers only ten outwardly... Praise be to God, your hearts are overflowing with the Love of God... Rest assured in the fact that the breath of the Holy Spirit will aid you, - provided no doubts obtain in your hearts. Know this for a certainty. | SW_v08#08 p.103x, SW_v07#10 p.099x, PN_1909 p014, PN_1909 p046, PN_1909F p031, DJT.072-073, BLO_PN#027 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2896 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-07 | 60 | The believers of God must invite the people to the feast of the love of God. The result of such a feast is the spirituality of the souls and the upliftment of the minds | DAS.1915-05-07 | @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2895 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-29 | 60 | There are some souls who have not any tie, they are completely detached from all else save God. How wonderful is this station! There are also a number of individuals who are detached as far as themselves are concerned | DAS.1915-01-29 | @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @compassion; kindness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2894 | Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03 | 60 | Trust thou wholly in God, and be entirely detached from this world. Then the comfort of this world also will be thine. All these men that thou art beholding | DAS.1913-12-03 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2893 | Words to three Baptist missionaries, spoken on 1913-06-27 | 60 | The title of the Son is not as great as the title of the Word, because in the Old Testament all the Israelitish people are called sons of God | DAS.1913-06-27 | @Christ; Christianity, @Muhammad; Islam, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @oneness; unity of religion, @proofs of the Manifestations of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2892 | Words to a friend, spoken on 1913-06-07 | 60 | The voices that she did hear from childhood were not outward, physical voices. They were spiritual revelations in her heart. It is very strange that the Popes | DAS.1913-06-07 | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat] | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2891 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-09 | 60 | All the people are asleep. Why are they so negligent and neglectful of the glorious destiny which His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh has appointed for them? | DAS.1913-05-09 | @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @call to action, @light and darkness, @Manifestation of God as sun, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2890 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-07 | 60 | The wise man sees that another army with no cannons or rifles but with quite other armaments shall defeat this army. | DAS.1913-05-07 | @predictions and prophecies, @war and peace, @stories; anecdotes, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2889 | Words to Alma Knobloch and others, spoken on 1913-04-25 | 60 | The love of Bahá'u'lláh is the essence of happiness. Any heart which will become the depository of this love is always happy. | DAS.1913-04-25 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2888 | Words to Mms Bernard, Richard and Sanderson, spoken on 1913-03-05 | 60 | In the books of Bahá'u'lláh one finds the solution of every problem. For instance the Hidden Words contain the moral precepts | DAS.1913-03-05 | @universality of the Cause, @call to action | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2886 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23 | 60 | this is a matter of Divine Will. That although the Theosophists dwelt upon Karma and ultimate perfection, this was not to be expected, as degrees of existence must always be presented. | PN_1909F p061, PN_1909F p115, AKL.009 | @maintainance of degrees in society, @Theosophy, @differences in human capacity, @fulfillment of true potential | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2885 | Words to Lua Getsinger in 1904 | 60 | How grateful would be a poor man who had met a king- grateful to the one who introduced him. | PN_1904 p093 | @human reality created in the image of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2884 | Words to Mrs. Sarah Herron et al in Dec. 1900 | 60 | When Mohammad put forth His claim, a great multitude of the disciples of Christ believed in Him as the man who put forward the claim of being the Comforter | PN_1900 p123 | @predictions and prophecies, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @knowledge; recognition of God, @The Holy Spirit, @prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2883 | Words spoken ca. 1915 in Abu Sinan | 60 | There are two equinoxes, the vernal (Aries) and the autumnal (Libra). Before this vernal season, the earth, mountains, and gardens are as dead; this season brings life. | CHH.193, BLO_PN#022 | @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @spiritual springtime | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2882 | Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London | 60 | The Cause of God is like unto a rose-garden. As long as man is far from it, he cannot see how many kinds of flowers are planted therein | DAS.1912-12-23 | @development of capacity and readiness, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2881 | Words to Dr. Woodson Allen spoken in Oct. 1912 | 60 | Dr. Allen, you understand healing. You understand healing. You understand healing! You know that many diseases can be cured through simple medicines | MAB.075-076 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @material and spiritual existence; two books | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2880 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 60 | If all the world should combine to overthrow the Covenant, it could not succeed. ‘Abdu'l-Bahá loves all no matter how they turn away from Him. | SW_v08#16 p.216-217x, TDLA.010, BLO_PN#104 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2879 | Words to Viscount Arawaka spoken around Nov. 1911(?) | 60 | The religious ideal is the soul of all plans for the good of mankind... Scientific discoveries have increased material civilization. There is in existence a stupendous force, as yet, happily, undiscovered by man. | JWTA.051, CHH.184, VLAB.122, BLO_PN#022 | @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @non-participation in politics, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2878 | Words to pilgrims in June 1906 | 60 | Those who first arose to persecute us and plotted against us are now seeking a means for reconciliation. We have no quarrel with anyone | PN_1906 p077, SUR.269, BLO_PN#001 | @contention and conflict, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2877 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 60 | Know and realize the greatness of the Cause into which you have entered. Look not at the present. The day will come when there will not be a house which does not contain a believer in this Revelation. | TDLA.016, BLO_PN#104 | @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @growth of the Cause, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2876 | Words to Mountfort Mills in 1921 | 60 | Jesus was a Manifestation of God. Everything of him pertained to God. To know him was to know God. | SW_v12#11 p.188, SW_v15#08 p.249, SW_v20#05 p.133, PN_1909 p084, BSTW#339 | @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2875 | 60 | Ordinary a moral teacher strives day and night until a person abandons one of his many evil attributes. But as soon as the guidance | SW_v13#05 p.114 | @spiritual transformation, @fulfillment of true potential, @second birth | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU2874 | Words spoken on 1912-09-04 in Montreal | 60 | No brotherhood appears in the world as lasting save that of the spiritual type | SW_v08#11 p.141 | @spiritual transformation, @The Holy Spirit, @love of God, @nearness and remoteness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2873 | Words to Ethel Rosenberg et al, spoken in Oct. 1904 | 60 | The healing that is by the power of the Holy Spirit needs no special concentration or contact. It is through the wish or desire and the prayer of the holy person. | COC#1051x, BNE.109 | @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @power of prayer, @station of the Manifestation of God, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2872 | Words to Albert Windust, Ramleh, 1913-10-23 | 60 | ...That which is the most important of all the affairs in this day is to teach the Cause of God! | SW_v04#15 p.251 | @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2871 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 60 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | The love and effort put into Esperanto will not be lost, but no one person can construct a Universal Language. | AIL.094 | @universal language, @predictions and prophecies, @grammar and orthography | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2870 | Words to Mr and Mrs Kinney et al, spoken on 1909-08-21 | 60 | Everyone upon awaking in the morning awakes with a thought. The commercial man awakes with the thought of commerce... | SW_v14#06 p.165, PN_1909 p063, PN_1909D p018 | @bringing oneself to account each day, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @transcending the material condition, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2869 | Words to Mary Lucas and other pilgrims, spoken on 1905-01-31 | 60 | In the Koran are many things referring to Christ not mentioned in the Gospel. For instance: It is said that Christ took a bit of clay | SW_v09#18 p.211, BAVA.021, BLO_PN#021 | @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @Christ; Christianity, @spiritual transformation, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2868 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 60 | In this Cause, he who is active and who makes an effort will always meet with success. In worldly matters how often we see | PN_unsorted p021, DLA.039-040, BLO_PN#026 | @effort; striving, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @bringing forth results; fruit, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2867 | 60 | Bahá'í Scriptures | I desire that every one of the believers may become an ignited candle... Today the confirmations of the kingdom of Abha are with those who renounce themselves... The master-key to self-mastery is self-forgetfulness | LOG#0390x, BSC.548 #992, SW_v11#01 p.018x | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others, @being a source of light; guidance | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2866 | Words to a painter, spoken on 1913-04-03 | 60 | Can you paint upon the page of the world the ideal pictures of the Supreme Concourse? | DAS.1913-04-03, SW_v05#10 p.149, SW_v05#05 p.070, SW_v08#02 p.028, SW_v14#06 p.178 | @spiritual transformation, @literature; drama; humanities; the arts, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @station of the Manifestation of God, @material and spiritual existence; two books | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2865 | Words spoken in 1912 in the United States | 60 | The real materialist is the animal. Compared to the animal, man is but a tyro and novice in materialism | SW_v04#06 p.105.3, SW_v25#11 p.239 | @limits of the intellect, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @man's distinction from the animal | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2864 | Words to Ali-Kuli Khan spoken in 1900 | 60 | The Blessed Perfection, Bahá’u’lláh, has promised to raise up souls who would hasten to the service of the Covenant… Go, and eat this candy. Rest assured, the Blessed Perfection will enable you to translate | SUR.109 | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @review of publications, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2863 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-10-17 | 60 | Persian | هنوز آن هیئت تفتیش و تعدی در مراجعت از عکا بین راه اسلامبول بودند که سطوت عدالت ملکوت جمیع امور را | This commission of investigation and oppression was on its way back to Istanbul from 'Akka when the majesty of the justice of God revolutionized all matters. | BDA1.317.01 | MHMD1.335 | @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @justice and wrath of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2862 | Public address given on 1912-05-13 | 60 | Persian | هندوستان در زمان قدیم خیلی ترقی داشت از قطعهٴ آسیا مدنیت بمصر و سوریه سرایت کرد | India had a great civilization in former times. That civilization spread from that part of Asia to Syria and Egypt | BDA1.093.10 | SW_v19#06 p.180, MHMD1.100 | @coming-of-age; maturity of mankind, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2861 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-08-05 | 60 | Persian | همیشه این دأب غافلین بوده که مخلصین را از امر الله منع می نمودند اما دام الحمد لله ما شصت سال است در این دام خوشیم و ابداً فکر فراری نداریم | It has always been the practice of the heedless to hold back the sincere ones from the Cause of God. As for a trap, praise be to God that we have been trapped happily for sixty years | BDA1.177.11 | MHMD1.193 | @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2860 | Words to some musicians, spoken on 1912-08-13 | 60 | Persian | نغمات عبارت از تموجات هوائیه است که از آن پرده های گوش متأثر میشود و نغمه و صوت ملیح | Music is produced by vibrations of air which affect the tympanum of the ear. Although music or an ordinary pleasing voice is of the physical realm | BDA1.188.12 | MHMD1.204 | @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @music and singing | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2859 | Words spoken on 1915-08-23 in Haifa | 60 | Persian | می خواهم بیایم بالا در مسافرخانه و یک برغل پلوی برای حضرات بپزم. جمال مبارک مرا خادم احباء قرار داده | I wish to ascend to the pilgrim house and cook pilaf for the friends. The Blessed Beauty hath appointed me a servant of the beloved ones [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-08-23 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2858 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-05-15 | 60 | Persian | من وقتی باحبای ایران نوشتم که اعضای کانفرانسهای صلح اگر باجرای انچه میگویند | Once I wrote to the friends in Persia in regard to peace congresses and conferences | BDA1.095.07 | SW_v19#06 p.180-181, MHMD1.102 | @universal peace; world unity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @goodly deeds; actions | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2857 | Words to Nuru'd-Din Mumtazi et al in May 1920 | 60 | Persian | من تمام کارهای خود را در این جهان تمام کردم و باید از این عالم بروم فقط بیت مبارک | [He said that He has completed His work in this world and must leave this mortal plane. But the only matter He has been unable to take care of is the House of Baha’u’llah in Baghdad] | KNR.079 | KNRE.087 | @Shrines and Holy places, @call to action | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2856 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-06-24 | 60 | Persian | من بعد از صعود مبارک امری نماند مگر انکه در اعلآء کلمة الله بآن تشبث نمودم | After the Ascension of Baha'u'llah I did everything within my power to promote the Cause of God. I clung to spiritual methods and rendered such servitude | BDA1.133.11 | MHMD1.143 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @growth of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2855 | Words spoken on 1913-03-05 in Paris | 60 | Persian | من باحبای آلمان آنقدر محبت دارم که اگر شعله ئی از این محبت بانها خور | The love I cherish for the German friends is so intense that were a flame of this love to touch them, they would be set ablaze completely | BDA2.169 | MHMD2.213 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @love of God, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2854 | Words to some engineers, spoken on 1912-11-03 | 60 | Persian | مشرق الاذکار مدور و دائره شکل است ٩ خیابان ٩ باغچه ٩ حوض با فواره های آب و ٩ دروازه در اطراف دارد | The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar is circular in shape. It has nine paths, nine gardens, nine pools with fountains and nine gates. | BDA1.352.03 | MHMD1.370-371 | @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2853 | 60 | Persian | مردی عرب با زنش بالای بام خفته بود نیمه شب تعدادی از طیور قطا را زن دید | A man of Arabia lay sleeping with his wife upon the rooftop, when, in the midnight hour, the woman beheld a flock of sand grouse passing overhead [3.5s] | YIK.303, ZIAB1.167-168 | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2852 | Words spoken on 1913-02-18 in Paris | 60 | Persian | ما آنچه خیر وصلاح ایران و ایرانیان بود گفتیم و نوشتیم ولی گوش ندادند حتی در بدایت | We have spoken and written about such things as will conduce to the good and betterment of Persia and its peoples | BDA2.146 | MHMD2.182-183 | @parliaments; constitutional government, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @relationship between government and people, @past, present and future of Iran | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2851 | Words to some Arab Baha'is, spoken on 1913-12-03 | 60 | Man must so adorn himself with good attributes, attractions and divine characteristics that he may become the cause of the illumination of the world of humanity | DAS.1913-12-03 | @bringing forth results; fruit, @goodly deeds; actions, @being a source of light; guidance, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @man's distinction from the animal | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2850 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-10 | 60 | Persian | کم است نسبت بامریکا هر چند مصارف انگلند کمتر است ولی باز اُجرت مزدوران | This is little compared to America. Though expenses are lower in England, still their workers' wages are too low | BDA2.015 | MHMD2.018 | @labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2849 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 60 | Persian | ظلمت عدم نور است وجودی ندارد یهدی من یشاء و یضل من یشا | Darkness hath no existence in truth, for it is but the absence of light. He guideth whom He willeth and leadeth astray whom He pleaseth [3.5s] | KHH2.281 | @nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @light and darkness | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2848 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-09-20 | 60 | Persian | شما ها بیکدیگر خیلی محبت داشته باشید دیدن همدیگر نمائید غمخوار کل باشید | You must have deep love for one another. Go to see each other and be consoling friends to all. | BDA1.258.08 | MHMD1.276 | @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @words vs deeds, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2847 | Words to Nuru'd-Din Mumtazi et al in May 1920 | 60 | Persian | سنگلاخ های این کوه مبدل به گل و ریاحین خواهد شد و گردش گاه ملل | At present rocks and thornbushes surround the Shrine of the Bab, but in the future this place will be encompassed by an abundance of trees and flowers | KNR.041 | KNRE.051 | @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @Shrines and Holy places, @future of Haifa; of the Holy Land, @predictions and prophecies | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2846 | Words spoken on 1915-09-08 | 60 | Persian | زن و مرد باید فی الحقیقه رفیق باشند غمخوار یکدیگر باشند موافقنشان از روی حقیقت باشد | Verily, man and woman must in truth be companions, consoling one another, and their concord must be founded upon reality [3.5s] | GHA.160 | @marriage as means of spiritual progress, @equality of men and women, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @idle fancies; lust and passion | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2845 | Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-17 | 60 | Persian | دو قسم آفاتست یکی را سبب اعمال و اخلاق غیر ممدوحه است مانند کذب و نفاق و خیانت و ظلم وامثال اینها | Calamities are of two kinds. One kind results from bad morals and misconduct such as falsehood, dishonesty | BDA1.157.17 | SW_v19#10 p.309, MHMD1.171 | @theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering, @law of transformation and change, @recompense; reward for belief; right action | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2844 | Words spoken on 1914-12-16 in Abu Sinan | 60 | Persian | در هر دوری سه شخص بوده است: در دور موسی، موسی و نار و مکلم طور... باصطلاح فلاسفه | In every Dispensation there have been three persons: In the Dispensation of Moses, there was Moses, and the Fire, and the Speaker on Sinai... in the terminology of the philosophers [3.5s] | ZSM.1914-12-16 | @the cross and the trinity, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2843 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 60 | Persian | در این مسافرت بسیار زحمت کشیدید . این اوقات بواسطه حرب عمومی مسافرت بسیار صعب و مشگل | In this journey ye have endured manifold hardships. At this time, by reason of the universal conflagration, travel hath become most arduous and difficult [3.5s] | KHMT.069 | @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @Shrines and Holy places, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2842 | Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-13 | 60 | Persian | در امرالله محفل سری نباید باشد و لو امروز نفوسی بیغرض و خالص این محفل را تأسیس مینمایند | In this Cause of God there is no secret doctrine or secret society or club or gathering. I want you to be impressed with the importance of this fact that there is no secret doctrine in this Cause at all. | BDA2.298 | DAS.1913-05-13, MHMD2.394 | @secret societies, @empty learning; false spirituality, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @contention and conflict | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2841 | 60 | Persian | چون بعضی اشراق انوار شمس حقیقت را از آفاق امریک دیده‌اند بخیال آن افتادند که نفوسی بآن صفحات | When certain souls beheld some rays of the Sun of Truth dawning from the horizon of America, they became possessed of the fancy that some persons in those regions [3.5s] | NJB_v05#14 p.003 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2840 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-21 | 60 | Persian | چه قدر بزرگان در دنیا آمدند چه قدر صاحبان ثروت بودند | How many great men have come into the world! What wealth they have owned! What kings have sat on the thrones | BDA1.162.02 | SW_v19#11 p.347, MHMD1.176 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @eulogies; reminiscences, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @martyrs and martyrdom | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2839 | Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909 | 60 | Persian | جمیع عالم استعداد دارد فقط مبلغ لازم دارد اگر عالم استعداد نداشت نفس ظهور نمیشد | The whole world possesseth capacity; it doth but require teachers. Were the world devoid of capacity, the Manifestation would not have appeared [3.5s] | KHH2.285-286 | @development of capacity and readiness, @The Holy Spirit, @power of the Manifestation of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2838 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-07 | 60 | Persian | جمال مبارک که از سلیمانیه تشریف آوردند بعد از دو سال قبای بسیار کهنه ئی | When after two years the Blessed Beauty returned from Sulaymaníyyih, He was wearing a dilapidated coat, a vest with no sleeves and a cotton headgear. | KHH1.102 (1.143) | KHHE.156 | @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @suffering and imprisonment, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2837 | Words to Mr W.W. Harmon, spoken on 1912-07-28 | 60 | Persian | تیاسفیها طفلی را در مدارس اروپا تربیت می کنند تا او موعود ملل شود چه قدر بی فکری است موعود را خدا باید انتخاب کند نه خلق | The Theosophists are educating a boy in the schools of Europe and say that he will become the promised one of all nations. How ignorant is this! God must select the Promised One, not men. | BDA1.169.14 | SW_v19#11 p.348, MHMD1.184 | @Theosophy, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Manifestation of God as sun | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2836 | Words to some Christian ministers, spoken on 1912-12-01 | 60 | Persian | تعالیم حضرت مسیح فراموش شده ملاحظه نمائید که مسیح بپطرس میفرماید شمشیر خود را غلاف کن باز میفرماید | The teachings of Christ are forgotten. Consider that Christ commanded Peter to sheathe his sword. He also said | BDA1.398.15 | MHMD1.417-418 | @Christ; Christianity, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @religion as reality; definitions of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2835 | Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03 | 60 | You must sow seeds of the trees of which may yield fruits for all eternity. Praise be to God, you have entered in the path | DAS.1913-12-03 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement, @bringing forth results; fruit, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2834 | Words to two new Baha’ís, spoken on 1913-05-07 | 60 | Persian | بعضی از نفوس مانند سراجی هستند که باید آنها را روشن کنند و بعضی خود روشنند ولی دیگران | Some souls are like unto the glass chimneys. They are pure and transparent but an outside light must come in and illumine them; there are others who are illumined but they do not confer illumination | BDA2.288-289 | DAS.1913-05-07, MHMD2.380 | @high station of teachers of the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2833 | Words spoken on 1913-01-31 in Paris | 60 | Persian | ببینید ما چگونه در کنائس یهود و نصاری اثبات حقیقت اسلام نمودیم با وجود این مسلمین | Take note of how, in the churches and synagogues, we have established the truth of Islam, and consider the calumnies | BDA2.115 | MHMD2.142-143 | @rejection, opposition and persecution, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2832 | Words to a socialist, spoken on 1912-06-01 | 60 | Persian | باشتراکیون بگو اشتراک در اموال و اراضی اینعالم فانی سبب نزاع و جدال است اما اشتراک و وراثت ملکوت | Tell the socialists that sharing of property and land in this mortal world is the source of strife and warfare but sharing and inheritance in the Kingdom is the cause of love and unity. | BDA1.112.03 | SW_v19#06 p.184, MHMD1.119 | @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @wealth inequality and its moderation, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2831 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-07-01 | 60 | Persian | این عون و عنایت از قدرت او و این تأییدات بصرف جود و فضل اوست ورنه ما جز بنده ئی ضعیف | This help and assistance are from Him and these confirmations are through His bounty and favor; otherwise, we are nothing but weak servants. We are as reeds | BDA1.143.04 | MHMD1.154 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @thankfulness; gratitude, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2830 | Words to two Persians from Tihran, spoken on 1912-08-24 | 60 | Persian | ایرانیان بدست خویش خانهٴ خود را خراب کردند بامید ساختن خانهٴ دیگر ولی حال در صحرا بی لانه و آشیانه مانده اند با انکه نوشتنیم | The Persians destroyed their home with their own hands in the hope of building another one; but now thy are left in the desert without a home or shelter. | BDA1.204.14 | MHMD1.221 | @past, present and future of Iran, @relationship between government and people, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @chastisement and requital | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2829 | Words spoken on 1913-05-13 in Paris | 60 | Persian | اول امریکه نفوس بآن مکلفند تحقیق و تحری در حقایق امور است انسان واجب است | The first duty which humanity is bidden to carry out is to investigate the realities of things. It is incumbent upon the people to seek to unravel every truth | BDA2.298 | MHMD2.394 | @independent investigation of truth; reality, @condition of search, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2828 | Words spoken on 1913-03-15 in Paris | 60 | Persian | اهمیت در حالات و شئون روحانی است اگر شما منجذب بنفحات روحانی باشید | True significance lies in states of spirituality. Should you all be captivated by the sweet savours of spirituality, then I shall always be with you | BDA2.182 | MHMD2.231 | @growth of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2827 | Words to some Indians, spoken on 1912-10-11 | 60 | Persian | انسان باید شجرهٴ مبارکه ئی را آبیاری نماید که اثمار باقیه دارد و سبب حیات من علی الارض است | Man must irrigate the Blessed Tree which has eternal fruits and is the cause of life for all on earth. | BDA1.297.03 | MHMD1.315, ECN.543 | @growth of the Cause, @symbolism, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2826 | Words spoken at Goodall home in Oakland, 1912-10-12 | 60 | Persian | امروز در کنیسه موسویان صحبت کردیم شما دیدید که چگونه اثبات شد که حضرت مسیع | Today we spoke in the Jewish temple. You saw how it was proven that Christ was the Word of God | BDA1.307.11 | MHMD1.324-325 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Christ; Christianity, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2825 | Words to Mrs Hearst, spoken on 1912-10-16 | 60 | Persian | امر الله از قوای ملکی و امور دنیوی مقدس است و از جمله تعالیم الهیه بنفوس امانت و انقطاع و تقدیس است | The Cause of God is sanctified from all political power and worldly affairs. | BDA1.313.08 | MHMD1.331 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @non-participation in politics, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2824 | Words spoken on 1913-04-22 in Vienna | 60 | Persian | امتیاز انسان در روحانیت و مدنیت الهیه است در اطمینان و سُرور سرمدیست | The distinction of humanity lies in spirituality and divine civilization, as well as their eternal peace and happiness | BDA2.251 | MHMD2.326-327 | @spiritual transformation, @the human soul, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2822 | Words spoken on 1913-03-13 in Paris | 60 | Persian | اگر ملل و امم موجوده ترک تقالید و تحری حقیقت نمایند جمیع متحد گردند | if the peoples of the world were to abandon their blind imitations and investigate the truth for themselves, they would all become united | BDA2.180 | MHMD2.228 | @blind imitation [taqlid], @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @oneness; unity of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2821 | Words spoken on 1913-05-16 in Paris | 60 | Persian | اگر احبای الهی چنانچه باید قیام کنند و بحالتی آیند که هر یک مصداق و اجعل اورادی ورداً | Should the loved ones of God arise as they must; should they come to exemplify these ideals: ' Keep all my words of prayer and praise confined to one refrain | BDA2.301 | MHMD2.399 | @service to others; to the Cause of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @call to action | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2820 | Words spoken on 1913-08-06 in Ramleh | 60 | This is one of the wonders of this age, that an oriental and an occidental can meet on common ground | DAS.1913-08-06, SW_v08#10 p.136, ABIE.164, BLO_PN#007 | @race unity; racial issues, @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2819 | Words spoken on 1913-02-22 in Paris | 60 | Persian | از روزیکه قلم اعلی دربارهٴ فارسیان حرکت نمود و ارادهٴ مبارکه بر عزت و احترامشان تعلق یافت | From the moment the Supreme Pen first wrote of the Persians, glorifying them and showing His respect for them, that people grew increasingly exalted | BDA2.153-154 | MHMD2.192 | @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @past, present and future of Iran, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2818 | Words to Latimer, Remey et al, spoken on 1914-10-18 | 60 | Persian | از این مکاتب ثمری نیست اطفال در مکاتب الهی هم تحصیل علوم میکنند و هم آداب یاد میگیرند | The children must receive divine and material education at the same time, and be protected from temptations and vices.... In the scheme of human life | KHH1.113 (1.158) | KHHE.173fn, DAS.1914-10-18, SW_v09#08 p.089, SW_v07#15 p.137, SW_v07#15 p.144, PN_1914 p099 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @education of children; moral education, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2817 | 60 | Persian | از این قبیل بسیار پیدا میشود اهمیتی ندارد بیت العدل درست میکند | Such matters arise often; they are of no consequence. The House of Justice shall set them aright [3.5s] | QT105.2.040, MUH1.0325 | @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @House of Justice, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria) | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2816 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-02 | 60 | Persian | ادیان الهیه برای الفت و محبت بوده و سبب اتفاق ملل و امم مختلفه گشته اما چون مدتی گذشت | The divine religions were revealed for love and amity and have brought about harmony among the different peoples and nations. But as time passed dogmas | BDA1.348.04 | MHMD1.366 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2815 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-12 | 70 | The religion of God reforms the moral side of the life of mankind. It is the spreader of the virtues of the world of humanity... In this garden you will find the flowers seen in others, and beside, there are other rare flowers here that are not extant anywhere else. | DAS.1914-03-12, SW_v08#02 p.028 | @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @unity in diversity, @universality of the Cause, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social) | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2814 | Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908 | 70 | There is a Persian story of a thief who, in order to rob a certain house, went to work to undermine the foundation | SW_v09#18 p.208, DLA.034, BLO_PN#026, STAB#102 | @humor; jokes, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2813 | Words spoken ca. 1918-12-17 | 70 | O Omnipotent God! Verily, the pavilion of Justice has been raised in the Holy Land | SW_v09#17 p.196 | @praise and encouragement, @prayer for governments and rulers, @relationship between government and people | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2812 | 70 | God is the Creator of all the creatures. He made men to dwell in His land and He made them rulers of whatsoever exists of animals, vegetables, minerals, water and air | SW_v12#17 p.260, DWN_v4#01 p.001, DWN_v6#09 p.001 | @nationalism; love of country, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU2811 | Words spoken ca. 1911 in London | 70 | Sixty years ago Bahá’u’lláh taught the perfect equality of the sexes, essential difference in sphere, in point of view and service to their joint humanity, but each like two pillars supporting the arch of life | SAS.096-097 | @role and station of women, @unity in diversity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2810 | Words spoken ca. 1911 in London | 70 | To know the Truth, to have attained knowledge, is good, but it is only the first step, it is not enough. The only thing that avails for the soul's growth, is to live the truth. | SAS.093 | @words vs deeds, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2809 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 70 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | By deeds. This way is open to all, and deeds are understood by all. | AIL.098 | @methods of teaching the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @goodly deeds; actions, @wisdom [hikmat], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | ||||||||||
| ABU2808 | 70 | People have come to realize that in unity there lies strength; in concentration of purpose there is power | SW_v16#05 p.509 | @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @love and unity | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU2806 | Words spoken in Jun. 1911 in Egypt | 70 | Asceticism is not necessary. A soul grows by the exercise of human virtues and the observance of human morals | SW_v08#05 p.060, BLO_PN#002 | @monasticism; asceticism, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2805 | Words spoken on 1914-10-20 | 70 | Persian | یک نفر مسلمان و یک نفر مسیحی و یک نفر یهودی در کشتی بودند مسلمان دعا کرد | It is said that once a Mohammadan, a Christian and a Jew were rowing in a boat. Suddenly a tempest arose | KHH1.133 | KHHE.174, DAS.1913-02-10, DAS.1914-10-20, SW_v09#18 p.210, VLAB.133, STAB#104 | @humor; jokes, @stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2804 | Words spoken in 1912 in the United States | 70 | Material scientists endeavor to show the evolution of the species man from the monkey | SW_v04#06 p.105.2 | @evolution; human evolution, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @man's distinction from the animal | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2803 | Words to Miss Fanny A. Knobloch, Paris, 1913-05-20 | 70 | The Sunday School is very important; then why did the parents become indifferent? It is very essential | SW_v09#08 p.094-095 | @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @education of children; moral education | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2802 | 70 | In spite of all difficulties Baha'o'llah was ever in an exalted state; his face shone | SW_v08#13 p.171 | @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||||||
| ABU2801 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14 | 70 | Material affairs are of two kinds. The first kind are those concerns which have no direct | DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.118, SW_v08#02 p.017 | @material and spiritual existence; two books, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @work as worship, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2800 | Words spoken in 1910 | 70 | Mrs. C. when you go back to New York talk to people about the love of God. People in the world do not talk enough about God. Their conversation is filled with trivialities | TOR.212-213, VLAB.143 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @methods of teaching the Cause, @knowledge; recognition of God, @love of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2799 | Words spoken in Jun. 1906 | 70 | Today the world's gaze is extended to the lives of the Bahá'ís: when they find a believer committing an evil deed, they may imagine such to be the deed of all the Bahá'ís | PN_1906 p070, SUR.274, BLO_PN#001 | @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @words vs deeds | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2798 | Words to Fugeta, Dr. C. et al, spoken on 1919-12-18 | 70 | This is not a correct translation. I wrote that his highness the Supreme (Báb) was the forerunner like John the Baptist, like the dawn. The Blessed Beauty is the sun and I am ‘Abdu'l-Bahá and no one should go beyond that. | PN_1919 p038 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @twin Manifestations, @John the Baptist | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2797 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-01-03 | 70 | This globe with all the infinite forms of life teeming through its length and breadth is but a grain of poppy in comparison with this stupendous creation | DAS.1915-01-03 | @infinity and eternity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2796 | Words spoken on 1914-06-14 in Tiberias | 70 | This is all very good! I hope many such useful articles will appear in the press of America and Europe. The mass of humanity must be informed | DAS.1914-06-14 | @newspapers and the media; publications, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @methods of teaching the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2795 | Words to Mr King from Seattle, spoken on 1912-10-24 | 70 | Unless a man give his whole thought to a subject, he cannot comprehend it fully. He must give his mind to the thing, be free, and then he will understand it. | MAB.083 | @effort; striving, @study; deepening, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2794 | Words to Dickinson Miller, spoken on 1911-08-24 | 70 | the Master said religion was one truth which the sectarians had divided; however, the Light can be found everywhere... As to mystical experiences: most assuredly the saints and mystics had real experiences. The proof of the reality of the experience was its fruit. If the result was spiritual, we might know the experience was of God. | AIF.1911-08-24, PN_1909B p026, DJT.165, BLO_PN#027 | @oneness; unity of religion, @bringing forth results; fruit, @mystical themes, @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2793 | Words to the friends, spoken around 1912-05-03 | 70 | Some of you have observed that I have not called attention to any of your individual shortcomings.... I want you to be organized like a flock of the doves of Heaven, whose attitude and conduct toward each other | SW_v03#04 p.029, VLAB.077x | @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2792 | Words to Genevieve Coy et al, spoken on 1920-09-08 | 70 | it is not the length of time that one spends here that is important. Some people stay a short time, and then go and do great service. Other people are here a long time, and they learn nothing. | IHP.142, BLO_PN#046, BLO_PN#111 | @humor; jokes, @personal instructions, @development of capacity and readiness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2791 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-22 | 70 | Horticulture is one of the most fascinating arts. I love it and watch the growth of the trees and flowers as one watches the growth of the babes. | DAS.1915-04-22 | @creativity in art, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @perfection; imperfection of nature, @agriculture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2790 | Words spoken at railway station in Akka, 1915-03-06 | 70 | In all my daily works and movements I rely on the confirmations of the Blessed Perfection. Whenever I feel weak I turn my face to Him and He strengthens me. | DAS.1915-03-06 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @power of prayer, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2789 | Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-09 | 70 | It is generally understood that the seat of thought, consciousness and volition is the brain, it is the organ of intellection and understanding. The heart also displays a part through the central nervous system. | DAS.1914-12-09, SW_v13#06 p.152x | @the mind's power of discovery, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2788 | Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-07 | 70 | Now tell me, Esmael, art thou sure that the Messiah will appear in two years? | DAS.1914-12-07, SW_v13#06 p.150-151x | @suffering; rejection of Christ, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2787 | Words spoken on 1914-06-04 in Tiberias | 70 | This town [Tiberias] is very sacred in the estimation of the Jews, yet they seldom think of its improvement and cleanliness. | DAS.1914-06-04 | @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2786 | Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09 | 70 | There is no origin of evil. The origin of evil is non-existent. For example darkness is evil. It is the absence of light. | DAS.1914-05-09, PN_1914 p002, BSTW#318 | @nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil, @creation of the world, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @light and darkness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2785 | Words to Haji Mirza Haydar Ali, spoken on 1914-04-15 | 70 | This Mirza Ahmad has become the 'recorder of my deeds'. As soon as I open my mouth he takes out his notebook. If I make a joke, it will be spread all over Europe. | DAS.1914-04-15 | @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @humor; jokes | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2784 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-11 | 70 | This is the most important work. This is the light of the religion of God. This sea must ever be kept tempestuous. This fountain must always flow... The Cause is the cup, teaching is the ruby wine with which the souls are intoxicated. | DAS.1914-03-11 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2783 | Words spoken on 1914-01-14 | 70 | Unity is an ideal which is confirmed by the Almighty. When I hear the believers are united I am most happy. The Spirit of Baha'o'llah overshadows those souls | DAS.1914-01-14 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2782 | Words to some of the friends, spoken on 1913-12-29 | 70 | Under what tumultuous times the foundation of this divine structure was laid! Owing to the false reports | DAS.1913-12-29 | @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @sacred remains; burial of the Bab, @Shrines and Holy places | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2781 | Words to a lawyer, spoken on 1913-12-01 | 70 | The more the rays of the sun of education are diffused, the less will be the darkness of crime and brutality | DAS.1913-12-01 | @call to action, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2780 | Words to a journal editor who wrote against the Faith, spoken on 1913-05-21 | 70 | If I knew that thou wouldst not think that I am afraid, I would have sent thee a gift for writing such a book against the Bahá'í movement. Thy example is like unto the ant who scaled a high, sturdy poplar tree | DAS.1913-05-21 | @humor; jokes, @growth of the Cause, @stories; anecdotes, @rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2779 | Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23 | 70 | The greatest consolation for the heart is the Love of God. This is the balm for every wound and the remedy for every ailment. | DAS.1913-04-23 | @love of God, @consolation and comfort, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @light and darkness | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2778 | Words following address to theosophists, spoken on 1913-04-10 | 70 | Our hearts like unto pure mirrors receive the impressions and these spiritual images are reflected from one mirror upon another without the medium of language. | DAS.1913-04-10 | @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @the power of words; of speech, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @limits of language | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2777 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-15 | 110 | The Cause of God will soon throw a great reverberation throughout the pillars of the world. It will embrace in its fold the East and the West. Its power will penetrate through every atom of creation. | DAS.1913-03-15 | @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @growth of the Cause, @consolation and comfort | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2776 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-11 | 70 | Our pathway is supplication and invocation, severance from all else save Him and communion with the Source of all benediction. | DAS.1913-02-11 | @importance of prayer, @unity; oneness of humanity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2775 | Words to a young man, spoken on 1913-01-22 | 70 | Now that you are returning to America, pass through all the large cities on the way, meet the friends of God and associate with them. | DAS.1913-01-22 | @exhortations and counsels, @goodly deeds; actions, @personal instructions, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2774 | Words to Mrs. Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23 | 70 | It will begin at midnight, the same as the solar year... In the Arabic there is no difference... These are symbols. Always, hair is the symbol of the glory of God... | PN_1909 p094 | @Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @grammar and orthography, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2773 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23 | 70 | there is a communication between spirits, but [that] the spiritual séances as given in Europe where spirits are supposed to move objects, etc., are phantasmagoria. | PN_1909F p062, PN_1909F p116, AKL.013 | @occult sciences; psychic phenomena, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2772 | Words to Miss Rosenberg, spoken on 1909-01-09 | 70 | We know that the body or form has nothing to do with spirit or spiritual conditions. When the spirit is disconnected with or leaves the body, that is no reason for thinking it can be reabsorbed or joined with the whole of spirit | SW_v07#11 p.108, PN_1909 p072, PN_1909 p104, PN_unsorted p022 | @relationship of the soul to the body, @unity in diversity | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2771 | Words to Percy Woodcock in 1909 | 70 | It has two distinct meanings, the esoteric and exoteric. Esoterically the ark is that shelter given by God | PN_1909F p029 | @love of God, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2770 | Words to Aseyeh Allen spoken in May 1907 | 70 | Man is dependent. God is independent. Man is weak. God is strong... So, God is, and although He expresses Himself through man, still if He had not created man, He would BE just the same. | PN_1907 p064 | @Manifestation of God as sun, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2769 | Words to Sigurd Russell et al, spoken on 1904-04-14 | 70 | Their glory is but temporal and mortal, for they are but rulers of this ephemeral sphere, where all things change from day to day | PN_1904 p020, PN_1904 p028 | @Mary Magdalene, @high station of the true believer, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2768 | Words to Mary MacNutt et al in 1904 | 70 | You might receive a gift of no value from a friend, yet you value the gift for the sake of the love you have for your friend. | PN_1904 p088 | @human reality created in the image of God, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2767 | Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04 | 70 | this meant the River of those who went before; that is to say, the religious laws of each preceding prophet are annulled... In the time of Christ the commands of Moses were as dry bones | PN_1901 p023 | @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @symbolism, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2766 | Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901 | 70 | In reality wine or spirits taken even in moderate quantities does no permanent good. It is like urging a horse to full speed by whipping him... they must on no account allow their children to drink wine or alcoholic drinks | SW_v07#15 p.143x, SW_v09#08 p.090x, PN_1901 p007, NRMM.214 | @alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @symbolism | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2765 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-06 | 70 | It is very strange how the possession of a few spans of earth blinds men to justice and fairness. He become neglectful and heedless | DAS.1914-05-06 | @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa], @heedlessness and ignorance of the people | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2764 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-25 | 70 | It has no effect. It does not develop the mind to subsist upon a vegetable diet. A man can be without reason or understanding, though he does not eat meat or flesh | PN_1909F p067, PN_1909F p127, AKL.010-011 | @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @kindness to and rights of animals | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2763 | Words to William Ellis, reporter for The Continent, around 1910 | 70 | We have no statistics and we do not consider these things important. It is the quality of the believers we care for. | SW_v01#17 p.008, BLO_PN#006 | @humility; meekness; lowliness, @love and unity, @oneness; unity of religion, @growth of the Cause | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2762 | Words spoken on 1914-07-16 | 70 | This wonderful Cause has not been properly introduced into China. It is very necessary that it should be done. | DAS.1914-07-16 | @growth of the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2761 | Words spoken on 1913-05-19 in Paris | 70 | Persian | همیشه خوش خبر باشید اخبار خوش را همیشه زود منتشر نمائید | You must always be the bearers of good news. Spread such news quickly, and become the means through which the hearts are made cheerful and vigilant | BDA2.308 | MHMD2.406 | @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @compassion; kindness, @wisdom [hikmat], @courtesy; culture [adab], @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2760 | Words spoken on 1914-05-31 in Tiberias | 70 | Whenever a believer dies and leaves behind debt, the friends of God must exert themselves to pay it off. If he had left some property or real estate they may dispose of it | DAS.1914-05-31 | @conduct in finance and business, @business; financial; property matters, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2759 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-10-29 | 70 | Persian | هر خوابگاهی را یکدالر دادن نقلی نیست لکن ما میخواهیم تقیدی براحت تن نداشته باشیم | It is not a matter of our reluctance to pay one dollar but of our unwillingness to be dependent on bodily comfort. We must be equal to the hardships of traveling | BDA1.339.10 | MHMD1.357 | @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @disregarding bodily comfort | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2758 | Words spoken at a public park in San Francisco, 1912-10-05 | 70 | Persian | هر چند نباتات نسبت بعالم حیوان حساس گفته نمی شوند ولی در عالم خود روح نباتی و قوهٴ حساسه دارند | Although sensitivity in plants is slight as compared with that manifested in animals, within their own kingdom they have sensitivity and vegetable spirit. | BDA1.289.07 | MHMD1.306 | @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2757 | Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-22 | 70 | There are three kinds of light. The light of the sun has only one function and that is to make things manifest.... The second light is the light of the eye... The third light is the light of the intellect. | DAS.1913-05-22 | @symbolism of color and light, @intelligible vs. perceptible realities, @ether; the phenomenon of light, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2756 | Words spoken on 1912-12-20 in London | 70 | Persian | نفسی بی آمال و آرزو نیست سلطان و گدا هر کس مبتلای غمی است و دوچار مشکلی | There is not one among us who is without hope or desire. The king and beggar alike are afflicted with some sorrow | BDA2.032 | MHMD2.037 | @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2755 | Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-19 | 70 | Persian | من عربی را تحصیل نکرده‌ام وقتی طفل بودم کتابی از مناجاتهای حضرت باب را بخط جمال مبارک | All the Baha'ís know that I have never studied Arabic.... I will tell you how I came to know Arabic. When I was very, very young, I found in our house in Tihran a large voluminous book containing many prayers in Arabic revealed by the Bab and copied by Baha'u'llah. | HHA.004x, BDA2.308 | DAS.1913-05-19, MHMD2.407-408, STAB#093, KSHK#31 | @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @power of prayer, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2754 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-03-08 | 70 | While in America I strove day and night to prepare a few holy sanctified souls to take up the burden of the Cause after my departure. A very few who have responded to this call have arisen | DAS.1913-03-08 | @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @exhortations and counsels | - | - | |||||||||||
| ABU2753 | Farewell words to some friends, spoken on 1913-06-11 | 70 | Persian | من چندی در میان شما بودم نهایت محبت را بشماها داشته و دارم همیشه قلبم در محبت شما | I have been in your midst for a few months. Only God knows how much I have grown to love you. Your love beats in my heart like the artery of life. | BDA2.346-347x | DAS.1913-06-11, MHMD2.460x | @spiritual transformation, @love of God, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - |
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