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| AB01401 | 330 | Persian | ای دوستان و کنیزان عزیز خدا در آستان ایزدی و در محضر این بنده بها مذکور و مشهورید | O beloved friends and handmaidens of God! At the Divine Threshold and in the presence of this servant of Bahá, ye are mentioned and renowned [3.5s] | ANDA#40 p.28 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-40] YHA1.382x#4 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=384] YARP2.264 p.229 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-235.html] PPAR.149 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=151] RMT.038-039 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] YARD.133-134 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/yar-i-dirin.pdf#page=133] QUM.224x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @suffering and imprisonment, @praise and encouragement, @consolation and comfort, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual transformation, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| ABU0202 | Words spoken to Persian Baha'is at Hotel Victoria in Ramleh, 1912-03-04 | 900 | Persian | از جمله مظاهر مقدسه الهیه حضرت زردشت بود نبوت حضرت مثل آفتاب واضح و روشن است | Among the holy Manifestations of God was Zoroaster, whose Prophethood is clear and evident as the sun [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0596 [https://www.bahai.org/r/232286767] AVK2.068.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-69.html] KHF.126 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=129] KHAB.217 (227) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.050 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-52.html] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @oneness; unity of religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @unity in diversity | ||||||||
| 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=qk9OAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62] BLO_PN#026 [https://bahai-library.com/goodall_cooper_daily_lessons] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @predictions and prophecies | ||||||||||
| AB09226 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده پارسی الهی الحمد لله که پارسیان زائر آستانند و زردشتیان مقرب درگاه | O Persian servant of God! Praise be unto the Lord that the Persians are pilgrims at the Threshold and the Zoroastrians draw nigh unto the Court [3.5s] | YARP2.299 p.245 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-251.html] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @praise of Eastern values; culture | |||||||||
| AB07302 | 110 | Persian | ای پاسبان آستان خسرو آسمانی آنچه نگاشته بودی خوانده شد خندان شدیم گریان شدیم | O guardian of the celestial Sovereign's threshold! What thou didst write was read; we were made to smile and to weep [3.5s] | INBA13:308 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=154] | YARP2.407 p.313 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-319.html] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @praise and encouragement, @predictions and prophecies | ||||||||
| AB02524 | 240 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان از پرواز برادر آن همراز هر چند اندوه بسیار رخ داد ولی آنمرغ | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Though the flight of that intimate brother hath brought great sorrow, yet that bird [3.5s] | ALPA.039b YARP2.047 p.094 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-100.html] QUM.222.19x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @eulogies; reminiscences, @praise and encouragement, @chastisement and requital, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @consolation and comfort, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| ABU1195 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-26 | 270 | The influence of the Word of God is all-penetrative. One must simply arise and engage in the service of the Cause... The armies of the Supreme Concourse are drawn in battle-array on the plain of the Kingdom... The Zoroastrians must be very enkindled | DAS.1914-04-26 | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||||
| AB00767 | 450 | mixed | ای عزیز پارسی هر چند الان بهیچوجه تحریر نتوانم و فرصت ندارم مع ذلک مختصر جواب | Praised be God ye have adorned yourselves with devotion and love... As to the question of evil spirits, demons and monsters, any references made to them in the Holy Books have symbolic meaning | INBA75:150 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=156] | BRL_DAK#0427 [http://www.bahai.org/r/825777397] ALPA.089 YARP2.106 p.127 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-133.html] | BRL_ATE#138x [http://www.bahai.org/r/222958911] LOG#1731x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1731] | @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @demons and evil spirits, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @astrology and numerology, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy | |||||||
| AB07287 | 110 | Persian | ای بنده حقیقی حق دامنی بکمر زن و قدمی محکم کن و همتی بنما و جانفشانی کن در | O true servant of the Truth! Gird up thy loins, make firm thy steps, show forth courage and sacrifice thy life in the path [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0240 [http://www.bahai.org/r/653123106] CPF.259 MSHR5.108-109 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=104] | @zeal and fervor in teaching the Cause, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @call to action | |||||||||
| ABU2634 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-22 | 80 | It is very strange indeed how many particulars of my earliest childhood always stick to my memory. I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old there was a very poor old man in our street | DAS.1915-02-22 | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @stories; anecdotes, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @poems and quotation from poetry | ||||||||||
| ABU0968 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-22 | 320 | When I was a very little child in Teheran it became necessary and urgent that I should carry a message of great importance to the General of the army | DAS.1914-12-22 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=6] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @stories; anecdotes, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha | ||||||||||
| ABU1782 | Words spoken on 1915-05-01 in Haifa | 170 | How the children love the small, innocent lambs... I remember an incident of my childhood... I was then very, very young, probably 3 or 4 years. At the time the Blessed Perfection lived in Tihran. | DAS.1915-05-01 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=36] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @stories; anecdotes | ||||||||||
| ABU1312 | Words spoken on 1913-03-29 in Paris | 240 | Persian | من طفل بودم بسن نُه سالگی در بحبوحه بلایا و هجوم اعداء از بس سنگ بخانه ما | I was a child, nine years old. In the thick of those calamities, when the enemy attacked, they stoned our house | BDA2.205-206 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-213.html] | MHMD2.263-264 BW_v13p1188 [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol13-1954-1963.pdf#page=118] ABCC.009-010 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=39] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||
| AB03992 | 180 | Persian | ای خاندان حضرت عم بزرگوار عم جلیل بر سریر مقعد صدق عند ملیک مقتدر جالس و | O family of the glorious and noble Uncle! That exalted Uncle is seated upon the throne of truth in the presence of the omnipotent King [3.5s] | MKT5.078 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-79.html] IQN.219 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/464.pdf#page=1] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @eulogies; reminiscences, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| ABU2296 | 110 | I cared more for hearing the Tablets of the Bab recited than anything else. I used | SW_v09#18 p.201-202 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_18] AELT.020 fn [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=67] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @kindness to and rights of animals | |||||||||||
| ABU1294 | Words spoken on 1912-10-24 in San Francisco | 250 | We have been for a drive in the Park as far as the lake - a most beautiful spot, with lawns about it | ECN.213+500x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=213] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment | ||||||||||
| ABU1472 | Words to Nabil-i-A'zam around 1889 | 220 | We had sought shelter in the house of My uncle, Mirza Isma'il. Tihran was in the throes of the wildest excitement. | DB.616 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/nz/DB/db-45.html#pg616] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | ||||||||||
| ABU0678 | Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-08 | 430 | Persian | من خیلی میخواهم با شماها صحبت بدارم لکن صحتم مساعد نیست دعا کنید صحت تامه ای حاصل شود | I wish very much to speak with you all, but I am not feeling well… I have been travelling for two years and a half. Nowhere was I ill except here. | BDA2.172-173 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-180.html] | DAS.1913-03-08x MHMD2.217-218 ABCC.012x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=42] STAB#092x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=92] | @youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @mystical themes, @theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @personal instructions | |||||||
| AB02751 | 230 | mixed | ای مظهر امتحانات الله نفوس بشریه در این خاکدان ترابی بر دو قسمند و مقسوم بر | O Manifestation of God's tests, human souls in this dust-heap of earth are of two kinds and divided [3.5s] | INBA85:103 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=105] | BSHN.140.319 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-326.html] BSHN.144.317 MHT1a.065 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=66] MHT1b.023 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=23] MUH2.1120 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/285.pdf#page=122] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @consolation and comfort, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | ||||||||
| AB10924 | 50 | Persian | ای شهریار شاه کشور آسمان یارت باد بپروردگار امیدوار باش و از روزگار بیزار | O Shahriar, King of the celestial realm, may the Lord be thy Helper. Place thy trust in God and turn away from worldly fortune [3.5s] | YARP2.146 p.160 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-166.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | |||||||||
| 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 [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol13-1954-1963.pdf#page=118] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God | ||||||||||
| AB05312 | 150 | mixed | ای ناظر بافق ابهی الیوم جمیع من علی الارض از پی سراب دوانند و از عقب ظل زائل | O thou who gazest towards the Most Effulgent Horizon! Today, all who dwell upon the earth are in pursuit of mirages, running after vanishing shadows [3.5s] | INBA85:377b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=379] | YMM.048 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=56] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @idle fancies; lust and passion | ||||||||
| ABU1666 | Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-05 | 180 | Persian | بقای آنها نسبت بنفوس مقدسه مانند فناست مثل این چوب که وجود دارد ولی نسبت بعالم انسانی | The permanence of those souls, when compared with that of the sanctified souls, is even as non-existence itself | BDA2.010 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-18.html] | MHMD2.012 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @man's distinction from the animal, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world | |||||||
| AB08677 | 90 | Persian | ای جمشید رشید حضرت جم از اینجهان پر پیچ و خم وفاای ندید و شهدی نچشید و بارزو | O Jamshid the Valiant! His Holiness Jam found no fidelity in this twisted and winding world, nor tasted any honey of his desires [3.5s] | YARP2.150 p.162 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-168.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| AB09572 | 80 | Persian | ای ورقه طیبه این جهان بسی عرصه تنگ و تاریک و آن جهان بغایت روشن و وسیع و | O pure leaf! This world is indeed a narrow and darksome arena, whilst that world is infinitely luminous and vast [3.5s] | INBA87:090a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=92] INBA52:089a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=91] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| AB04015 | 180 | Persian | ای دوستان حقیقی انجمن در اقطار عالم بسیار در هر شهری انجمنها در نهایت انتظام | O true friends! Associations throughout the world are numerous; in every city assemblies function with the utmost regularity [3.5s] | TAH.281a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=285] ANDA#41-42 p.97 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-41-42] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @words vs deeds | |||||||||
| ABU0928 | Words to a French Bahá’í, spoken on 1913-05-14 | 330 | The world of matter is full of vices and the people of these regions are engaged too much in chasing material things. They are thinking too much of money and the tinsels and playthings they can buy with it. | DAS.1913-05-14 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @fulfillment of true potential | ||||||||||
| ABU1883 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-03 | 160 | These [locusts] are the armies of God. They are countless in number. Look at them how they fly. How high they are ascending in the air. They must also be fed. | DAS.1915-04-03 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=64] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @stories; anecdotes | ||||||||||
| AB01377 | 330 | Persian | ای آوارگان کوی دوست آندلبر آفاق چون در انجمن اهل وفاق اشراق نمود آغاز رازی کرد | O ye exiles in the path of the Friend! When that Beloved of all horizons shone forth in the gathering of the faithful ones, He began to unveil a mystery [3.5s] | MMK2#037 p.025 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-27.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| ABU0199 | Words spoken on 1914-07-03 | 910 | It is said that Jesus entered a village. In those days many houses were broken into | DAS.1914-07-03 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=17] SW_v09#18 p.212-214 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_18] STAB#058 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=58] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation, @stories; anecdotes, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||||
| ABU1220 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 260 | I wish that I could be with you always, but my time is not my own. Yet my heart is with you. The important thing is to be with each other in union of the heart. | AELT.211-212 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=258] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @effort; striving | ||||||||||
| AB02378 | 250 | Persian | ای جانهای پاک پاکی و آزادگی بدلست نه بتن بجانست نه بجامه و پیرهن انسان اگر | ...Whatsoever driveth thee away from the one true God and shutteth thee out from the Best-Beloved is blameworthy and reprehensible | BRL_CONF2018P#02x [http://www.bahai.org/r/700232331] MMK2#097 p.075 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-77.html] YARP2.351 p.283 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-289.html] | BRL_CONF2018#02x [http://www.bahai.org/r/393403163] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @nearness and remoteness, @meditation, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | ||||||||
| AB06338 | 130 | Persian | ای منجذب بنفحات قدس در این عرصه تنگ و جهان پر آب و رنگ اگر صد هزار سال درنگ | O thou who art attracted to the holy fragrances! In this narrow arena and this world full of color and allure, shouldst thou tarry a hundred thousand years [3.5s] | INBA59:229b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=231] | BSHN.140.436 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-443.html] BSHN.144.430 MHT1a.106 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=107] MHT1b.064 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=64] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||
| AB08230 | 100 | Persian | ای منجذب بنفحات عرفان در عالم وجود آنچه انسان آرزو نماید تعلق را نشاید چه که | O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of divine knowledge! In the world of existence, whatsoever man may desire is unworthy of attachment, for [3.5s] | INBA13:020b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=10] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB08553 | 90 | Persian | ای بنده الهی اسکندر یونانی نامجوای در عالم ناسوت نموده و بخونخواری در عالم | O servant of God! Alexander the Greek gained renown in the realm of existence, and manifest was his thirst for blood in this earthly world [3.5s] | MMK3#070 p.045 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-47.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| ABU1231 | Words to Lua Getsinger, spoken on 1913-11-15 | 260 | Now that thou art departing for India I desire that thou mayest become like unto a rose garden to perfume the nostrils of al the people. | DAS.1913-11-15 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=130] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=4] PN_1909 p077 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=77] PN_1909B p008 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909B.pdf#page=8] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @love of God | ||||||||||
| AB08504 | 90 | Persian | ای اردشیر همنامت چون شیر دلیر در میدان مردان جنگیرا اسیر کرد و عنوان جهانگیر | O Ardeshir, thy namesake, like a valiant lion, took captive the warriors on the field of battle and gained the title of world-conqueror [3.5s] | YARP2.230 p.209 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-215.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | |||||||||
| ABU0294 | Public address given on 1912-06-11 | 740 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | We have just returned from a visit to Philadelphia, spending two nights there and speaking | PUP#065 (p.183-186) [http://www.bahai.org/r/028965305] SW_v04#06 p.099-100 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_6] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @transcending the material condition, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @man's distinction from the animal | |||||||||
| AB04666 | 160 | Persian | ای بنده الهی ثروت دنیا مانند تپه های رمل است که بادها هر روز از جاای بجای | O servant of God! The wealth of this world is even as the sand dunes, which the winds do scatter from place to place with each passing day [3.5s] | BSHN.140.445 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-452.html] BSHN.144.439 MHT1b.231 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=231] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @thankfulness; gratitude | |||||||||
| AB05672 | 140 | mixed | ای دو یار عزیز سرگونی من در این جهان امن و امان و سر و سامان چه کار اید | O two cherished friends! What purpose can my banishment serve in this world of safety and security [3.5s] | INBA17:083 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=85] | BSHN.140.441 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-448.html] BSHN.144.435 MHT1a.183 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=184] MHT1b.141 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=141] MHT2.117 NFQ.017 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nfq.pdf#page=9] QUM.149 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @disregarding bodily comfort, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others | ||||||||
| AB12143 | 390 | mixed | ای عزیز عبدالبهاء امید از دلبر فرید چنان است که آواره وحید در ظل ظلیل رب جلیل | O thou dear one of Abdu'l-Baha! The hope cherished by the peerless Beloved is that this solitary wanderer may abide beneath the sheltering shade of the Glorious Lord [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1008 [https://www.bahai.org/r/858059150] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @review of publications, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | |||||||||
| AB00049 | Tablet of the Divine Plan (U.S. and Canada II) | 1460 | mixed | Tablets of the Divine Plan | ای بهائیان حقیقی امریک شکر حضرت مقصود را که موفق ...از راحت و آسایش جسمانی و تن‌پروری ...انسان بجهت زندگانی این حیات دنیا خلق نشده است | O ye real Bahais of America! Praise be to His Highness the desired One... O God, my God! Thou seest me enraptured and attracted toward Thy glorious kingdom | MKT3.020 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-20.html] BSHN.140.476.08x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-483.html] DUR1.594x RRT.145x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=145] ADH2.106x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_3#02 p.141x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.018x MMG2#063 p.067x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-70.html] MJH.065x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-66.html] FRTB.053 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=51] | TDP#07 [http://www.bahai.org/r/368661491] BPRY.206-207x [http://www.bahai.org/r/606089771] ADJ.013x [http://www.bahai.org/r/443017281] ADJ.050x [http://www.bahai.org/r/874184899] ADJ.062x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/003703323] ADJ.065ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] ADJ.073-074x [http://www.bahai.org/r/579994804] ADJ.074x8x [http://www.bahai.org/r/434714193] COF.020x [http://www.bahai.org/r/671652623] COF.028-029x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366432570] COF.031x4x [http://www.bahai.org/r/641079708] COF.113x [http://www.bahai.org/r/769898768] GPB.254x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647760190] GPB.255x [http://www.bahai.org/r/649400283] GPB.389x [http://www.bahai.org/r/993545571] GPB.397x [http://www.bahai.org/r/552193552] MBW.038x TDH#037.1x [http://www.bahai.org/r/256930821] TDH#158.5x [http://www.bahai.org/r/755603488] TDH#158.17x [http://www.bahai.org/r/679994757] BSC.534 #984 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#17 p.307-311 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_17] | Sarah & Nava [https://youtu.be/766WYsdOaYo] C. Signori [https://hambredesentido.bandcamp.com/track/ojala] R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 2] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan] S. Peyman, J. Bryan & A. Youssefi [https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/o-that-i-could-travel] almunajat.com [item 11] [https://almunajat.com/chanting_collection_3.htm] K. Porray [https://soundcloud.com/katyporray/o-lord-strengthen-my-back-11817] | UDP.048 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @prayer for teaching, @growth of the Cause, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | ||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-128.html] | SW_v19#08 p.254 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_8] MHMD1.137 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=162] | @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 | |||||||
| AB05102 | 150 | Persian | ای بنده صادق کوکب منیر همنامت جهانگیر بود و بدخواهان را بزیر زنجیر و شمشیر | O faithful servant! Thou radiant star, thy namesake was Jahangir, who brought his foes beneath chains and sword [3.5s] | YARP2.550 p.391 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-397.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| ABU2085 | Words to Ida Finch and Fanny and Alma Knobloch, spoken on 1908-11-12 | 130 | Be not grieved or sorrowful that no great wealth or property has been bestowed upon you. Look at the birds! | SW_v08#02 p.027 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_2] FRGA.029 [https://bahai-library.com/finch_knobloch_flowers_acca] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||||
| ABU2614 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-09 | 80 | How pitiful it is that man is satisfied with material things and so regulates his life as to gain more and more! | DAS.1913-02-09 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @human reality created in the image of God | ||||||||||
| AB07522 | 110 | Persian | ای متمسک بعروه وثقی جهانی در جهد و کوشش است و عالمی در سعی و کشاکش هر سری را | O thou who clingest to the Sure Handle! A world is in striving and struggle, and all mankind in mighty exertion and conflict [3.5s] | MMK2#095 p.073 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-75.html] DUR1.546 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | |||||||||
| AB07685 | 110 | Persian | ای یار وفادار مردمرا گمان چنین است که بهترین سعادتی در اینجهان نامداریست و | O faithful friend! People imagine that the greatest happiness in this world lieth in fame and renown [3.5s] | MMK3#093 p.061 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-63.html] DUR4.814 YARP2.269 p.232 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-238.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @material and spiritual existence; two books | |||||||||
| 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) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=235] | KHHE.298-299 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] BSR_v13 p.096 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||
| ABU1657 | Words spoken on 1916-06-27 | 190 | The religion of God has now been proclaimed in Germany. When the divine seed takes root in the soil | BBBD.362 SW_v07#17 p.173 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_17] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @growth of the Cause, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @Shrines and Holy places | ||||||||||
| AB11966 | 100 | Persian | ای موقن بایات الله اسکندر یونانی طالب شهریاری و سروری و جهانگشائی در عالم فانی | O thou who art firm in the signs of God! Alexander the Greek sought sovereignty, dominion and world conquest in this ephemeral realm [3.5s] | TISH.448 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=443] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| ABU1934 | Words to the wife of a professor, spoken on 1913-01-19 | 150 | You must thank God that, although I am a person from the East and you are a revered lady from the West, yet we are gathered in this place with the utmost of spiritual affection. | DAS.1913-01-19 | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @East and West; communication between East and West, @unity; oneness of humanity, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||||
| AB07141 | 120 | O thou servant of God! Thy letter was received. Thou hast spoken concerning thy lack | TAB.109 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA109] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @development of capacity and readiness, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @many are called but few are chosen, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | |||||||||||
| AB02966 | 220 | O bird without a nest! It is reported thy home and shelter is burnt, thy resting place and habitation is become desolate. Though this news | TAB.299-300 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA299] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @consolation and comfort, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||||
| AB04861 | 160 | mixed | ای منقطع الی الله خوشا خوشا که چنین آزادی و دلشاد و پاکی و تابناک بندگان | O thou who art severed from all else save God! Blessed indeed art thou, for such freedom and gladness, such purity and radiance, are the portion of His servants [3.5s] | MSBH5.262 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_5] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @praise and encouragement, @love of God, @the power of words; of speech | |||||||||
| AB08132 | 100 | Persian | ای شیدای جمال الهی هر کس را هوسی در سر و آرزوای در دل یکی هوس روی آبدار و | O ardent lover of the Divine Beauty! Each soul harboreth a desire and cherisheth a longing in its heart - one yearneth for a radiant face [3.5s] | AHB.131BE #01-02 p.10 MAS5.287 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-287.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB09153 | 80 | Persian | ای اردشیر نامداران عالم دردشانرا درمان نیافتند و زخمشانرا مرهم ننهادند عاقبت | O Ardashir! The renowned ones of the world found no remedy for their pain, nor any balm for their wounds [3.5s] | YARP2.412 p.315 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-321.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB10581 | 60 | Persian | ای مستمند الهی در جهان جمیع مردمان پریشان اما هر یک پریشان چیزی یکی پریشان | O thou who art dependent upon God! In this world all men are bewildered, yet each is bewildered by something different; one is bewildered by [3.5s] | INBA55:338a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=340] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB02977 | 220 | mixed | ای منادی میثاق نامه ای از فروغ رسید و چون باز شد پرتو و فروغی داشت کلمات مانند | O Herald of the Covenant! A letter from Furúgh hath arrived and, when opened, its words possessed a radiance and splendour [3.5s] | MSHR4.032 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=28] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @consolation and comfort, @business; financial; property matters, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @poems and quotation from poetry | |||||||||
| AB05569 | 140 | Persian | ای بنده حق در آستان مقدس دربانی لهذا سلطانی بلکه ملوک عالم مملوک چنین بنده اند | O servant of Truth! Thou who art a doorkeeper at the sacred Threshold art indeed sovereign, nay, the very kings of the world are servants to such a bondsman [3.5s] | MMK2#140 p.104 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-106.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | |||||||||
| AB10438 | 60 | Persian | ای بنده یزدان بهرام مشهور بهره ای از عالم سرور نبرد در پی گور افتاد تا اسیر | O servant of God! The renowned Bahram gained no portion from the realm of joy; pursuing the wild ass, he became captive [3.5s] | MKT6.004b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-4.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | |||||||||
| AB10112 | 70 | Persian | ای نادر محمد نادر چند کرور ناس را خون ریخت تا انگه اقلیم خاکی و کشور ترابی | O Muhammad Nádir! Nádir shed the blood of multitudes until at length this earthly realm and dominion of dust [3.5s] | MAS5.270 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-270.html] | @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | |||||||||
| AB01048 | 380 | ...Convey warmest, most loving greetings to Mark Tobey on my behalf, and heartfelt affection to Marguerite Bull. | BRL_ATE#034x [http://www.bahai.org/r/832051491] BRL_IOA#12x [http://www.bahai.org/r/674507616] | @work as worship, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters | |||||||||||
| ABU0749 | Public address given on 1912-06-11 | 400 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | Man must be lofty in endeavor. He must seek to become heavenly and spiritual | LOG#2113x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2113] PUP#066 (p.186-187) [http://www.bahai.org/r/802542636] SW_v04#06 p.101 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_6] | @work as worship, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB08233 | 100 | Persian | ای منجذب نفحات الله هر انسان دهقانست یکی کشتش صناعت است و دیگری کشتش تجارتست | O thou who art attracted by the Fragrances of God! Every person is a farmer. One sows the seeds of Industry | MMK3#077 p.051 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-53.html] PYB#169 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/169.PDF#page=4] | DAS.1913-08-05 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_03.pdf#page=28] ABIE.158 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @work as worship, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||
| AB05100 | 150 | Persian | ای بنده صادق حق آنچه نگاشتی و در ضمیر داشتی معلوم و واضح گردید الحمد لله گواه | O true servant of the Truth! That which thou didst write and harbor in thy heart hath become known and evident. Praise be to God, the Witness [3.5s] | YARP2.126 p.146 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-152.html] PPAR.144 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=146] | @work as worship, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB09242 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده حق در صنعت تا توانی دقت نما تا در نهایت لطافت و اتقان رسد چه که کمال | O servant of the Truth! In craftsmanship, exert all possible care, that thy work may attain the utmost refinement and perfection [3.5s] | INBA21:196b (246b) [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=99] | @work as worship, @excellence; distinction, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession | |||||||||
| AB07974 | 100 | Persian | ای بنده مقرب درگاه الهی از قرار معلوم ابوی مرحوم جناب آقا محمد رضا از دار دنیا | O thou servant who art near to the Divine Threshold! According to what hath become known, thy late father, Jináb-i-Áqá Muhammad-Ridá, from this earthly world [3.5s] | MMK6#095 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=72] | @work as worship | |||||||||
| AB01443 | 330 | mixed | ایها الفرع الرفیع من السدره المبارکه مدتیست که آن جناب وارد ارض شین گشته اید و | O noble branch of the blessed Lote-Tree! For some time now thou hast arrived in the land of China [3.5s] | INBA87:283 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=285] INBA52:287b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=289] | @work as worship | |||||||||
| ABU1541 | Words spoken on 1915-09-11 in Haifa | 200 | Persian | چقدر خوب است که ایام انسان در سبیل الهی بگذرد. جمیع اوقاتش، جمیع افکارش در سبیل الهی صرف شود | How excellent it is that the days of man should pass in the path of God, that all his moments and all his thoughts should be expended in the Divine path [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-09-11 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @words vs deeds, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Imam Husayn | ||||||||
| AB12449 | 130 | Persian | ای سه نفس مقرب درگاه کبریاء آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید حق با شماست | O three souls drawn nigh unto the threshold of the All-Glorious! That which ye had written was perused. The truth lieth with you [3.5s] | INBA85:511a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=513] | BRL_DAK#1047 [https://www.bahai.org/r/567829804] | @words vs deeds, @work as worship | ||||||||
| ABU0155 | Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-16 | 1030 | Here is the Holy Land. It is a very good place. From all parts of the world people desire to come here... When I associate with pure and sanctified souls, my fatigue passes away | PN_1919 p018 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=18] PN_1919 p097 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=97] LAT.018-024 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world] | @words vs deeds, @war and peace, @education of children; moral education, @predictions and prophecies, @universality of the Cause, @critique of Western values; culture | ||||||||||
| ABU1410 | Words spoken ca. Dec. 1911 | 230 | In order to bring about a state of peace and unity three things are necessary: | SW_v02#19 p.005-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_19] | @words vs deeds, @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=481] | @words vs deeds, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | ||||||||||
| ABU0993 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 310 | Persian | Pilgrim's Note of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Words, A | محبت ، محبت ، محبت ، محبت جاذب قلوب است محبت جالب نفوس است . حتی این کرات جسیمه | Love, love, love. Love attracts the hearts, love captivates the souls. Even these massive globes revolve through the power of gravity | KHMT.083-084 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KHMT.pdf] | ADMS#294 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0993/] | @words vs deeds, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love of God, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @one universal law; attractive power of love, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | ||||||
| ABU1709 | Words spoken en route in carriage in Haifa, 1915-04-25 | 180 | These warring, Christian nations call themselves the followers of the Nazarene but do not live in accord with his teachings... Do we Bahá'ís live according to the principles of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh? We must be just. | DAS.1915-04-25 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=17] | @words vs deeds, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @criticism and its limits, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | ||||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-278.html] | MHMD2.353-354 | @words vs deeds, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||
| ABU2029 | 140 | It is wonderful, priceless boon to be a vessel carrying food from God. It cannot be bought with gold. The first condition of a religious teacher | LOG#1998x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1998] SW_v14#02 p.060 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] | @words vs deeds, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @pure intentions in teaching the Cause, @high station of teachers of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline | |||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/m/maud_sparks_among_stubble.pdf] | @words vs deeds, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=31] SW_v07#18 p.185x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_18] SW_v14#06 p.165x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_6] | @words vs deeds, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||||
| AB04383 | 170 | mixed | ای ذاکر متذکر مواعظ و نصائح گهی بگفتار باشد و گهی برفتار و کردار و نفحات اسرار | O thou who rememberest the exhortations and counsels, whether through words or through deeds and conduct, and the fragrances of divine mysteries [3.5s] | MKT6.124 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-124.html] AHB.106BE #05 p.02 BSHN.140.236 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-243.html] BSHN.144.236 MHT2.116 | @words vs deeds, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB01068 | 380 | Persian | ای رفیق مهربان نامه که بتاریخ ۲۲ آپریل ۱۹۱۹ از لندن مرقوم نموده بودی رسید ولی مکتوب پیش | O loving friend! Your letter dated 22 April 1919, written from London, was received, as was your previous missive [3.5s]... ...Bahaʼuʼllah and the Bab were both Iranians, and some twenty-thousand Iranians have sacrificed themselves in this path. I, too, am an Iranian | AKHA_137BE #04 p.52 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] PYM.113-114x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-113.html] KHSH12.009 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_12] MAS5.044 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-44.html] | ADMS#065i16x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/passages-on-iran/] | @words vs deeds, @praise and encouragement, @praise of Eastern values; culture, @martyrs and martyrdom | ||||||||
| ABU1613 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-12 | 190 | Persian | مردم از قول حق خاضع نمیشوند ولی اگر عمل حق ببینند خاضع میشوند | People do not become submissive because of virtuous dictums; but rather, when they observe righteous deeds, they grow submissive. (DAS: Generally the people are not impressed by the words of the Divine Manifestation but if they hear about His actions they will humble themselves immediately.) | KHH1.212 (1.297) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=243] | KHHE.310-311 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-04-12 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=84] BSR_v13 p.100 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan] | @words vs deeds, @martyrs and martyrdom, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||
| ABU1244 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 260 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | I know of your work. I think a great deal of it. I know your desire is to serve mankind, and to draw together Humanity | AIL.108 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @words vs deeds, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @empty learning; false spirituality, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @humility; meekness; lowliness | |||||||||
| ABU1252 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 250 | Persian | بلی چنین است این آخوند همیشه ورد زبانش یا لیتنی کنت معک فافوز فوزاًعظیما بود ولی چون خودرا در صحرای کربلا | Yea, verily, such was this divine that forever upon his tongue were the words "Would that I had been with Thee, that I might have attained a most great triumph," yet when he found himself upon the plain of Karbila [3.5s] | KHMT.080-081 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KHMT.pdf] | @words vs deeds, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @episodes from the early history of Islam | ||||||||
| ABU2032 | Words spoken ca. Dec. 1911 | 140 | The world is wrong, just because people talk too much and do not carry out their ideals | SW_v02#19 p.007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_19] SW_v14#02 p.060-061 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] | @words vs deeds, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf], @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | ||||||||||
| ABU1667 | Words spoken on 1915-07-21 in Haifa | 180 | Persian | بهائی در هر شهری که باشد باید بافعال مشهور آفاق شود. بهائی بودن بعمل است نه بقول. اینست که می فرماید | The Bahá'í, in whatsoever city he may abide, must needs become renowned throughout all horizons by his deeds. The state of being a Bahá'í is attained through action, not through words. This is what He hath decreed [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-07-21 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @words vs deeds, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @spiritual transformation, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty | ||||||||
| ABU2206 | Words spoken ca. Feb. 1920 | 110 | Persian | احبا هر روز در انتظار نامه جدیدی هستند که از من به آنها برسد و پس از وصول بخوانند و در جعبه های خود بگذارند | The beloved ones await, day after day, a fresh epistle that shall reach them from Me, that they may peruse it upon its arrival and place it within their treasured boxes [3.5s] | KHMT.072 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KHMT.pdf] | @words vs deeds, @entry by troops, @growth of the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | ||||||||
| AB02647 | 230 | mixed | ای ادیب دبستان جمیع اهل زمین طفلان مهانند و فرزندان نادان سبق خوان پس در | O thou learned one in the school! All the inhabitants of the earth are even as children, and untutored pupils who must learn their lessons [3.5s] | INBA87:048 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=50] INBA52:048 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=50] | @words vs deeds, @education of children; moral education, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| ABU2287 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 110 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | You must strive. A child does not know, in learning he obtains knowledge. Search for Truth. There are three kinds of Faith | AIL.064 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v20#10 p.293x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_20/Issue_10] SAS.093-094 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/m/maud_sparks_among_stubble.pdf] | @words vs deeds, @degrees of faith; certitude, @spiritual transformation, @effort; striving | |||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-266.html] | MHMD2.336 | @words vs deeds, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | |||||||
| AB03729 | 190 | Persian | ای عبد علی مولای خویش را ملاحظه نما که در سبیل جمال قدم چه جانفشانی نمود و | O 'Abd-'Alí, behold thy Master and witness what sacrifice He rendered in the path of the Ancient Beauty [3.5s] | PYB#175 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/175.PDF#page=4] | @words vs deeds, @call to action, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB10188 | 70 | Arabic | ایتها الورده المتفتحه فی جنه الابهی انی قرات تحریرک البدیع الانشاء الدال علی | O thou opened rose in the garden of El-ABHA! I have perused thy excellently worded letter showing what is moving in thy heart | BRL_DAK#0678 [https://www.bahai.org/r/802909170] | TAB.085 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA85] | @words vs deeds | ||||||||
| AB04144 | 180 | Arabic | ایتها المقبله الی ملکوت الله اعلمی ان الکلمه عباره عن المعانی الکلیه الالهیه | O thou who art turned towards the Kingdom of God, know thou that the Word is an expression of the universal divine meanings [3.5s] | MMK3#126 p.088 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-90.html] YMM.385x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=393] | @Word of God the cause of creation, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih] | |||||||||
| AB00289 | 700 | mixed | ایها الفاضل الجلیل انی اتضرع الی الملکوت الاعلی و اتشبث بذیل الکبریاء ان | O distinguished and noble one! I supplicate unto the Kingdom on high and cling to the hem of divine grandeur that [3.5s] | MKT3.244 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-244.html] MNMK#031 p.115 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-113.html] | @Word of God is its own standard, @empty learning; false spirituality, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @literal interpretation | |||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-309.html] | MHMD1.326 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=351] | @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 | |||||||
| ABU2280 | Words to some pilgrims, spoken on 1914-02-23 | 110 | Tell me, what voice is heard in thy city? Is it the voice of an earthly singer or the voice of the Cause of God?... The charm and beauty of the voice of Truth attract the hearts and spiritualize the thoughts | DAS.1914-02-23 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=106] | @Word of God and human limitations, @superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @music and singing, @the power of words; of speech | ||||||||||
| AB06359 | 130 | mixed | Light of the World | ای مومن بجمال قدم حضرت احدیت و سلطان ربوبیت بر عرش عظمت استقرار یافت و بجمیع | O thou who hast truly believed in the Ancient Beauty! The King of eternal glory, the sovereign Lord, hath been established upon the throne of grandeur | NURA#44 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#114 p.123 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-126.html] | LOTW#44 [http://www.bahai.org/r/101541772] | @Word of God and human limitations, @names and attributes of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity | |||||||
| AB02422 | 250 | Persian | ای یار عزیز من نامه شما رسید و از مضمون نهایت سرور حاصل گردید فی الحقیقه مرا | O dearly cherished friend! Your letter was received and from its contents the utmost joy was obtained. Verily [3.5s] | MMK5#041 p.040 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-43.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB07616 | 110 | Persian | ای ناظر بمنظر اکبر فیوضات نامتناهیه الهیه عالم وجود و حیز شهود را احاطه | O thou who gazest upon the Most Great Scene! The infinite effulgences of God have encompassed the world of being and the realm of manifestation [3.5s] | INBA17:262 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=264] | MKT8.163a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-163.html] AKHA_128BE #09 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] | @wisdom [hikmat], @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | ||||||||
| AB08010 | 100 | mixed | قبل از بلا بايد نهايت احتياط و احتراز نمود و دقّت در معامله کرد ولی چون قضيّه واقع شد | Before calamity befalleth, one must needs exercise the utmost care and vigilance, and observe diligence in all transactions; but when the matter cometh to pass [3.5s] | MMK3#032 p.021x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-23.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB04353 | 170 | Persian | ای خانواده آماده میدان فدا جناب آقا رحمت الله وارد و امیدوارم که بخدمت آستان | O family, prepared for the field of sacrifice! Jinab-i-Aqa Rahmatullah hath arrived, and I hope that he will render service at the Sacred Threshold [3.5s] | TABN.353 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=353] | @wisdom [hikmat], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||
| AB04029 | 180 | Persian | ای شیخ محترم در السن و افواه ناس مفتریاتی چند انتشار یافته که ضر بامر دارد | O esteemed Shaykh! Certain calumnies have spread among the tongues and lips of the people which are causing harm to the Cause [3.5s] | MKT3.326 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-326.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB05823 | 140 | mixed | ای ناشر نفحات الله خبر رجوع شما محفوظا و مصونا سبب سرور قلوب گردید الحمد لله | O thou who diffusest the fragrances of God! The news of thy safe and protected return hath brought joy to hearts. Praise be unto God [3.5s] | MKT3.496 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-496.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @methods of teaching the Cause | |||||||||
| ABU2366 | Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901 | 100 | No, gradually, for a plant that grows too quickly lasts only a short time. | PN_1901 p002 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1901.pdf#page=2] NRMM.204 [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=zPYdAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA204] | @wisdom [hikmat], @stories; anecdotes, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | ||||||||||
| ABU1257 | Words spoken on 1914-04-08 | 250 | China, China, China, China-ward the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh must march! Where is that holy, sanctified Bahá'í | DAS.1914-04-08 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=12] SW_v08#03 p.037 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_3] | @wisdom [hikmat], @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @growth of the Cause, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause | ||||||||||
| AB12385 | 150 | mixed | ای دو ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید شمامه عنبر بود و مضمون مسک اذفر دلالت بر | O ye two steadfast ones in the Covenant! Your letter was received. It was as fragrant as musk and its contents were as sweet-scented as the choicest ambergris, testifying to [3.5s] | INBA85:076 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=78] | @wisdom [hikmat], @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | |||||||||
| AB02223 | 260 | ...The founding of these spiritual meetings is purely for the purpose of teaching; but, as the Mashriqu'l Azkar is not yet founded | SW_v13#10 p.276x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_10] | @wisdom [hikmat], @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @contention and conflict | |||||||||||
| AB03645 | 270 | Persian | ای بنده صادق جمال ابهی شکر کن خدا را که بفیوضات نامتناهیه جمال کبریا هدایت | O faithful servant of the Most Glorious Beauty! Render thanks unto God that through the infinite bounties of the Supreme Beauty thou hast been guided [3.5s]... ...The Mashriqu’l-Adhkar is the lodestone of divine confirmations. The Mashriqu’l-Adhkar is the mighty foundation of the Lord | BRL_DAK#1231 [https://www.bahai.org/r/773958197] COMP_MASHRIQP#31x [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/originals_mashriq_compilation.pdf] AVK4.149.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-153.html] YIA.321 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=317] | BRL_MASHRIQ#31x [http://www.bahai.org/r/112028276] | @wisdom [hikmat], @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | ||||||||
| AB06792 | 120 | mixed | ای سرمست باده عشق ذی الجلال مجنون لیلی میگوید لقد لامنی فی حبها کل اقاربی ابی | O thou who art enraptured by the wine of the love of the All-Glorious! Majnún of Laylí declareth: "Verily, all my kindred did censure me for my love of her..." [3.5s] | MMK6#415 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=304] MSHR1.104x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-106.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @pain of love; love as veil | |||||||||
| ABU1536 | Words spoken on 1916-05-06 in Julis | 200 | Persian | بعد از حرکت جمال مبارک از بغداد سید مهدی خیلی بی حکمتی نمود. رضوان در محرم واقع شده بود. در دهم عاشورا عید گرفت | After the departure of the Blessed Beauty from Baghdad, Siyyid Mahdi acted with great unwisdom. The Ridvan festival had occurred in Muharram. On the tenth day, 'Ashura, he held a celebration [3.5s] | ZSM.1916-05-06 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @wisdom [hikmat], @rejection, opposition and persecution, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||
| AB02287 | 260 | mixed | ای یاران مهربان من نامه ای که پس از ورود دو شمع منور میرزا طراز و میرزا | O kind friends of mine, the letter which [arrived] following the advent of those two luminous souls, Mírzá Ṭiráz and Mírzá [3.5s] | MSHR3.197x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-199.html] AADA.130-131x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/831.pdf#page=137] | @wisdom [hikmat], @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people | |||||||||
| AB02111 | 270 | mixed | ای موقن بایات الله آنچه بجناب حاجی مرقوم نموده بودید ملحوظ گردید و بی نهایت | O thou who art assured of the signs of God! That which thou didst address to His Honour Haji was noted and infinitely [3.5s] | MKT5.031 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-32.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @firmness in the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB02418 | 250 | mixed | ای نهال بوستان محبت الله نغمه روحانی که از حنجر محبت الله صادر شده بود بگوش | O sapling of the rose-garden of God's love! The spiritual melody that streamed forth from the throat of divine love reached the ear [3.5s] | AVK4.165.07 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-169.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @prayer for spiritual recognition, @spiritual transformation, @laws of marriage and dowry | |||||||||
| AB02262 | 260 | mixed | ای منادی الهی فاشکر الله ربک الرحمن الرحیم بما وفقک علی السیر فی الارض و | O divine herald, render thanks unto God, thy Lord, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate, inasmuch as He hath aided thee to journey through the earth [3.5s] | MKT3.494b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-494.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @pioneering; travel teaching, @prayer for pioneers and travel teachers, @call to action, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB09271 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده مستقیم جمال قدیم انطون حداد با یک امة از اماء الرحمن وارد بیروت | O steadfast servant of the Ancient Beauty, Anton Haddad entered Beirut accompanied by one of the handmaidens of the All-Merciful [3.5s] | MSHR5.294 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=290] | @wisdom [hikmat], @personal instructions, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir] | |||||||||
| AB01101 | 370 | mixed | اللهم یا الهی انی اضع جبینی علی عتبه قدسک و فناء باب احدیتک و ادعوک بقلب خافق | O my God! I lay my brow upon the threshold of Thy sanctity and at the gate of Thine oneness, and with a palpitating heart I call upon Thee [3.5s] | AHB.121BE #01-02 p.46 MMG2#069 p.075 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-78.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @prayer for teaching, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| AB04775 | 160 | mixed | ای سمندر پر شرر نار موقده الهیه آنچه مرقوم گشته مضمون معانی جانپرور بود و مال | O fire-wrought Phoenix of the divine and kindled flame! The contents of that which was written were soul-stirring in their meaning [3.5s] | AHB.109BE #05 p.17 AYBY.351 #033 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-360.html] TRZ1.181 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf#page=1] MUH1.0282 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=38] | @wisdom [hikmat], @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB09128 | 80 | Persian | اگر چه بظاهر در محفل قرب حاضر نیستی اما فی الحقیه در خلوتخانه قلوب مذکور و | Though in outward appearance thou art not present in the gathering of nearness, yet in truth, in the innermost chambers of hearts, thou art remembered [3.5s] | AYBY.452 #192 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-461.html] SAM.392 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/673.pdf#page=392] | @wisdom [hikmat], @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @saddening another soul | |||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_14] VLAB.099 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] | @wisdom [hikmat], @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @Moses, @courtesy; culture [adab] | ||||||||||
| AB08425 | 100 | mixed | یا من ادخره الله لخدمه امره العظیم جناب احمد بیک مصری وارد و دو دفعه ملاقات | O thou whom God hath reserved for the service of His mighty Cause! The honoured Ahmad Bey of Egypt arrived and two meetings were held [3.5s] | MMK6#558 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=408] | @wisdom [hikmat], @non-participation in politics, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||
| AB07943 | 100 | Persian | ای بنده ثابت حق نامه که باقا سید اسدالله مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گردید آقا | O steadfast servant of the Truth! The letter which thou didst address to Aqa Siyyid Asadu'llah hath been perused [3.5s] | INBA87:390b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=392] INBA52:401a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=403] | @wisdom [hikmat], @methods of teaching the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | |||||||||
| AB11636 | 420 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید شکایت از عدم جواب نموده بودید | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Your letter was received. You had complained about not receiving a reply [3.5s] | FRH.360-361 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/frh.pdf#page=358] | @wisdom [hikmat], @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||
| AB12676 | 70 | Persian | ای بنده حق مضامین نامه که دلالت بر شور و وله احباء و انجذاب و التهاب قلوب اصفیا | O servant of God! The contents of the letter, which indicated the enthusiasm and ardor of the loved ones and the attraction and fervor of pure hearts [3.5s] | BSHI.061 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=61] | @wisdom [hikmat], @love of God | |||||||||
| AB06185 | 130 | Persian | از قرار مسموع شما را نيّت چنان که مهمانخانه‌ای به جهت مسافران مهيّا نمائيد | According to what hath been heard, it is thy purpose to prepare a guesthouse for travelers [3.5s] | MMK6#577x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=422] | @wisdom [hikmat], @love and unity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir] | |||||||||
| ABU0536 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-12 | 510 | Nadir Shah was one of the great rulers of Persia and during his military career he conquered India and many other countries. He was a resourceful leader | DAS.1914-11-12 | @wisdom [hikmat], @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @stories; anecdotes, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @call to action, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past | ||||||||||
| ABU2022 | Words to some visitors, spoken on 1913-02-27 | 140 | A young man who was graduated from the college applied for a position of teaching in a village far away from civilization. | DAS.1913-02-27 | @wisdom [hikmat], @heedlessness and ignorance of the people | ||||||||||
| AB07270 | 110 | mixed | ای بنده جمال قدم نظر عنایت شامل است و حکمت بالغه کامل آنچه در عالم امکان واقع | O servant of the Ancient Beauty! The glance of divine favor encompasseth thee, and perfect wisdom is complete in all that transpireth in the realm of being [3.5s] | MMK3#024 p.016 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-18.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB09642 | 80 | mixed | ایمان و ایقانت مسلم و اقبال و عرفانت مصدق و قال رجل مومن من آل فرعون یکتم | Thy faith and certitude are firmly established, and thy hope and knowledge bear witness. And there spoke a believing man from among the people of Pharaoh who concealed his faith [3.5s] | MMK6#469 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=343] | @wisdom [hikmat], @dissimulation [taqiyyih]; concealment or denial of Faith, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB02961 | 220 | Persian | ای مبتلای صد هزار مشکلات خداوند ترا از طهران آواره بوینه نمود که تلخی غربت | O thou who art beset by a hundred thousand difficulties, God hath made thee a wanderer from Tehran that thou mayest taste the bitterness of exile [3.5s] | MMK3#302 p.224 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-226.html] | @wisdom [hikmat], @consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB06403 | 130 | Persian | ای یار عزیز نامه ای که به آقا احمد مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گردید از عدم حضور | O dear friend! The letter which thou hadst addressed to Áqá Aḥmad was perused. From thine absence [3.5s] | MMK5#040 p.040 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-43.html] | @wisdom [hikmat] | |||||||||
| AB05774 | 140 | Persian | ای مخمور خمر محبت الهی قومی از باده خلاری پر نشئه و سرورند لکن بامداد در خمار | O thou who art inebriated with the wine of divine love! Some are filled with joy and rapture from common wine, yet find themselves in misery at dawn [3.5s] | INBA13:008 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=4] INBA55:413 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=415] | MAS5.134 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-134.html] MAS9.019x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-20.html] MSHR2.037 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-39.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @poems and quotation from poetry, @love of God, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||
| AB03734 | 190 | Persian | ای فائزه ای راضیه از قرار معلوم محقق و مثبوت گردید که در نزول بلا و شدت اذیت | O Fa'izih! O Radiyyih! It hath become manifestly evident and firmly established that in the descent of trials and the intensity of tribulations [3.5s] | MKT6.154b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-154.html] AKHT1.234-235 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/ATA1/ata1-234.html] TZH8.0489 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol5/tzh8a/TZHVol8a.pdf#page=491] AMIN.102-105 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| ABU2047 | Words spoken ca. 1903 | 130 | Persian | بلی صهبای بلا در سبیل جمال اقدس ابهی باید رنگارنگ باشد تا نشئه کامل ببخشد | Yes, in the path of the Blessed Beauty one must drink heartily from the overflowing cup of difficulties and afflictions in order to experience its consummate intoxicating effect. | KNSA.136-137 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/329.pdf#page=140] | MNYA.184 [https://bahai-library.com/afroukhteh_nine_years_akka] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @humor; jokes, @stories; anecdotes | |||||||
| AB11704 | 180 | Persian | ای سرمست جام ابهی مدتیست مدیده که نفحه خوشی از گلستان قلب آن یاران به دماغ | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of divine splendor! For a long time no sweet fragrance from the rose-garden of those loved ones' hearts hath reached me [3.5s] | FRH.203-204 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/frh.pdf#page=201] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB09228 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده جمال ابهی جمشید را گویند جامی جهان نما بود و بعضی بر آنند قدحی مرصع | O servant of the Abhá Beauty! It is said of Jamshíd that he possessed a cup that revealed the world, while some maintain it was a bejeweled goblet [3.5s] | YARP2.616 p.427 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-433.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @symbolism, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| AB09983 | 70 | Persian | ای سرمست باده روحانی ساقی گلرخ میثاق بزم فرخی آراسته و باده ثبوت و استقامت | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of the spirit! The rose-cheeked Cupbearer of the Covenant hath adorned the feast of joy and the wine of constancy and steadfastness [3.5s] | INBA13:220 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=110] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| AB08755 | 90 | mixed | ای سرمست باده محبت الله باده خلار و می خوشگوار را نشئه دمیست و دریای پرخوشش | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of the love of God! The wine of mortality and the delightsome drink have but a momentary exhilaration [3.5s] | MAS5.134 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-134.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB06382 | 130 | Persian | ای هوشیار جهانیان مدهوش اوهامند و بیهوشان صراحی و جام مدام عکسی از پرتو تجلی | O ye discerning ones! The people of the world are lost in delusions, while the senseless ones are intoxicated with the goblet and wine-cup, a mere reflection of the divine effulgence [3.5s] | MMK4#068 p.077 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-80.html] MSHR4.165 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=161] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual transformation, @self-concealment of the Manifestation of God | |||||||||
| AB08288 | 100 | Persian | ای نوش از باده آماده در میکده بهرام ??ارانرا بنوشان تا نوشا نوش در جهان و | O thou who art imbibing from the brimming chalice in the tavern of Bahram, offer the sweet draught unto the companions, that they may partake of the nectar and rejoice perpetually in the realms of existence [3.5s] | MUH3.374 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=390] YARP2.204 p.194 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-200.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual transformation, @music and singing | |||||||||
| AB09380 | 80 | Persian | ای رفیق پارسی من سیاوش در غریبی جام هلاک نوش کرد و تو در وطن الهی در محفل | O my Persian companion! Siyavash drank the cup of perdition in a foreign land, whilst thou, in the divine homeland, art in the assembly [3.5s] | YARP2.182 p.182 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-188.html] QUM.234a [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual transformation, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB04818 | 160 | Persian | ای متوجه بملکوت ابهی در این حین که بوی خوش حب الهی مشام مشتاقان را معطر دارد | O thou who art turned towards the Kingdom of Abhá! In this moment when the sweet fragrance of divine love perfumeth the senses of them that yearn [3.5s] | MSHR4.321 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=317] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB05699 | 140 | mixed | ای سرمست باده پیمان بعضی از یاران در نامه خود نام آن یار مهربان را برده اند و | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of the Covenant! Some of the friends in their letters have mentioned the name of that loving friend [3.5s] | MKT6.125 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-125.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB08753 | 90 | Persian | ای سرمست باده الست جام می دمی نشئه بخشد و مدتی خمار آرد و صداع اسرات کند ولی | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of the Covenant! A cup of wine may bestow a momentary exhilaration, but afterward bringeth languor and causeth a racking headache; yet [3.5s] | MMK2#086 p.067 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-69.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB08028 | 100 | Persian | ای جمشید جام جم است که در بزم میثاق بدور آمده و پیمانه پیمانست که در انجمن | O Jamshid! The Cup of Jamshíd is that which circleth round at the feast of the Covenant, and the goblet of the Pledge is that which, in the gathering [3.5s] | YARP2.133 p.151 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-157.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB07388 | 110 | Persian | ای دو اختر خاور یار مهربان خوشا بحال شما که پرتوی از آفتاب آسمانی یافتید و | O twin stars of the East, beloved companions! Happy are ye that have received a ray from the celestial Sun [3.5s] | INBA16:085 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=87] | YARP2.405 p.312 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-318.html] RMT.063c [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @praise and encouragement, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | ||||||||
| AB04072 | 180 | Persian | ای مقرب درگاه کبریاء بعد از غروبست و انامل عبدالبهاء از کثرت تحریر چون اسب | O thou who art drawn nigh unto the celestial court of grandeur! After sunset it is, and the fingers of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, from much writing, are as a horse [3.5s] | MKT9.183 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=92] MSHR4.252 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=248] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @love of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| AB10979 | 50 | Persian | ای نوشیروان ساغر آن باده از خمخانه یزدان نوش روانت باد تا توانی از می مهر | O Nushiravan! Quaff thou the cup of that celestial wine from the divine winehouse! May thy spirit ever flow with the wine of love as long as thou art able [3.5s] | YARP2.626 p.431 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-437.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @love and unity | |||||||||
| ABU1857 | Words to Arthur Agnew et al, spoken on 1907-04-14 | 160 | This kind of food is not Persian. It is European... There is no grape in the Kingdom. This is a symbol or sign of the Word of God. The intoxication of this wine is such that it will be seen. | PN_1907 p076 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1907.pdf#page=76] TTAG.018 [https://bahai-library.com/agnew_table_talks_acca] BLO_PN#101 [https://bahai-library.com/agnew_table_talks_acca] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation, @consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @power of the Manifestation of God | ||||||||||
| AB11136 | 40 | Persian | ای امه الله خوش باش و مسرور و مشعوف و مجذوب که در این دور الهی از دور جام | O maidservant of God! Be thou happy, joyous, elated and enraptured, for in this divine age thou hast quaffed from the chalice [3.5s] | YMM.057 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=65] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB10890 | 50 | Persian | ای جمشید بزم خورشید است جام جمشید بدور آر و پیمانه ای جدید ببخش باده عشق بنوش | O Jamshid! This feast is radiant as the sun. Bring forth the Cup of Jamshíd and bestow a fresh draught. Quaff thou the wine of love [3.5s] | PYB#244 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/244.PDF#page=4] YARP2.597 p.418 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-424.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB10919 | 50 | Persian | ای سروش سروش غیب سرود میزند که بوجد و طرب آای و ساقی الهی جام نوش میبخشد | O Soroosh! The herald of the unseen chanteth a melody that calleth thee to joy and ecstasy, and the divine Cup-bearer bestoweth the chalice of delight [3.5s] | YARP2.254 p.222 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-228.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB11186 | 40 | Persian | ای مست می محبت الهی تا توانی از این باده بنوش و از این جام مدهوش گرد زیرا عشق | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of divine love! Drink thou, as much as thou canst, of this celestial wine, and be thou rendered unconscious by this cup, for love [3.5s] | YARP2.166.1 p.174 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-180.html] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB10787 | 60 | O thou who hast sought shelter in the Impregnable Cave! Verily, the glad-tidings of God | TAB.105-106 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA105] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB10365 | 60 | Persian | ای امه الله شکر حضرت قیومرا که در ظل کلمه مبارکه داخل گشتی و از کاس هدایت | O handmaid of God! Render thanks unto the Self-Subsisting Lord that thou hast entered beneath the sheltering shade of the blessed Word and hast drunk from the cup of guidance [3.5s] | MKT9.027b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=14] | @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| ABU0152 | Public address given on 1912-05-19 | 1040 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | Because this is called the Church of Brotherhood, I wish to speak upon the brotherhood of mankind... The real brotherhood is spiritual | PUP#050 (p.129-132) [http://www.bahai.org/r/572080573] BSC.319 #639x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSC.463 #858x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#09 p.006-007+009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_9] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @unity; oneness of humanity, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @love and unity, @predictions and prophecies, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity | |||||||||
| ABU0689 | Public address given on 1912-07-23 | 420 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | The Baha'is must not engage in political movements which lead to sedition. They must interest themselves in movements which conduce to law and order… Strive, therefore, to create love in the hearts | PUP#084 (p.238-239) [http://www.bahai.org/r/883442183] SW_v04#07 p.122 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_7] SW_v07#15 p.148 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] | A. Youssefi [https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/love-is-shining-2] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @love of God, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @non-participation in politics, @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @service to others; to the Cause of God | ||||||||
| ABU0437 | Public address given on 1912-07-01 | 590 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | What could be better before God than thinking of the poor? For the poor are beloved | PUP#077 (p.216-217) [http://www.bahai.org/r/827842457] FWU.036 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v04#06 p.102-103 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_6] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @differences in human capacity, @law of Huququ'llah | |||||||||
| AB03273 | 210 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | شخص محترما تالیف شما بشارت غنی را مطالعه نمودم فی الحقیقه آراء سدیدی در آن | O respected personage! I have read your work, The Gospel of Wealth, and noted therein truly apposite and sound recommendations | MMK1#079 p.111 [https://www.bahai.org/r/345116401] AVK3.258.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-262.html] NJB_v12#04 p.094 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_4] | SWAB#079 [http://www.bahai.org/r/934340446] LOG#1863x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1863] DAS.1913-01-10 | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities | |||||||
| ABU1527 | Words spoken on 1912-09-03 in Montreal | 210 | Although the body-politic is one family, yet because of the lack of symmetry some members | SW_v08#10 p.122 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @unity; oneness of humanity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence | ||||||||||
| AB00099 | Some Answered Questions #078 Strikes | 1120 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | از مسئله اعتصاب سؤال نمودید . در این مسئله مشکلات عظیمه حاصل شده و میشود | You have asked about strikes. Great difficulties have arisen and will continue to arise from this issue. | MFD#78 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-193.html] OOL.C022.78 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-5-04-fa] | SAQ#78 [http://www.bahai.org/r/191459172] BWF.280-284x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @relationship between government and people, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @principle of balance; moderation; equilibrium | ||||||
| ABU0277 | Words to Habib Mu'ayyad, spoken on 1915-05-06 | 770 | Persian | مسائل الهیه مطابقت تام با عقل و علم دارد ولی مسئله در بیان شیئی است مبین لازم دارد همان مسئله را میشود بچندین | Spiritual teachings are completely consistent with rational thought and science, but it is a question of how they are presented. An interpreter is needed. The same issue can be presented in multiple ways. | KHH1.224-227 (1.312-317) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=255] | KHHE.327-329 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] STAB#052 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=52] STAB#108 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=108] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @methods of teaching the Cause, @maintainance of degrees in society, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||
| ABU2253 | Words to Nuru'd-Din Mumtazi et al in May 1920 | 110 | Persian | هیچ کدام نه مدح کنید و نه ذم فقط بگوئید امر جمال مبارک با | You must neither praise nor speak ill of them [the communists]. You should say that the Cause of God has no objection specifically concerning them | KNR.091-092 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/knr.pdf#page=101] | KNRE.099 [https://bahai-library.com/mumtazi_twin_pilgrimages] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @maintainance of degrees in society, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving | |||||||
| 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @love and unity, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | |||||||||
| AB11089 | 50 | ...Certain regulations are revealed which in sure the welfare and well-being of all humanity | SW_v07#15 p.133x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice | |||||||||||
| AB00793 | 440 | mixed | ای بنده الهی نامه شما رسید فورا جواب مرقوم میگردد تا تلافی مافات شود ای جناب | O servant of God, thy letter was received and forthwith is a reply being penned, that past delays may be remedied, O esteemed one [3.5s] | INBA17:006 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=8] | MKT9.045 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=23] ANDA#57 p.04 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-57] MAS2.086-087x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-87.html] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | ||||||||
| ABU0933 | 330 | My lot has ever been with those who have not the goods of this world. When we look at the poor of humanity, we behold a world of brothers. All are the sheep of God. | BSTW#187 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=67] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @Christ; Christianity, @consolation and comfort, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | |||||||||||
| ABU1843 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-08 | 160 | Persian | فقر از هر جهت بر ناس غلبه نموده ما هم امور مان وضعی است که نمیتوانیم | Poverty has become widespread amongst all the inhabitants of Syria and our affairs are in such a confused state... the station of such a wealthy man is greater than the poor who is patient | KHH1.233 (1.325-326) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=264] | KHHE.342-343 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-05-08 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=51] | @wealth inequality and its moderation, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @Christ; Christianity | |||||||
| ABU0430 | Words at reception with Turkish Ambassador, spoken on 1912-04-23 | 590 | Persian | الحمد لله قرون تاریک گذشت قرن نورانی آمد عقول و نفوس در ترقی است ادراکات در | Praise be unto God! The dark ages have passed away, and the illumined century hath dawned. Minds and souls are advancing, and understanding is [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0773 [https://www.bahai.org/r/808058134] AMK.264-266 DWNP_v1#05 p.003-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.091 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=94] KHAB.250 (260) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.043 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-45.html] NJB_v05#08 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_8] | BDA1.047 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-47.html] MHMD1.056 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=81] | @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @equality of men and women, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action | |||||||
| ABU0125 | Interview with Hudson Maxim, New York, 1912-04-15 | 1100 | Welcome! Welcome! Very welcome! [Hudson Maxim.] "I am glad to hear you speak English." | SW_v03#07 p.005+010-011 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_7] | @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @unity; oneness of humanity, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @universal language | ||||||||||
| ABU0901 | Public address given on 1912-05-03 | 340 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | I was in the Orient, and from the Orient to this part of the world is a long distance | BDA1.067n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-67.html] | PUP#036 (p.083-084) [http://www.bahai.org/r/406713895] SW_v03#04 p.017-018 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4] PN_1912 p085 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=85] BSTW#311x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=16] | MHMD1.075 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=100] | @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity, @praise of Western values; culture, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||
| ABU2064 | Words spoken in 1915 in Akka | 130 | Persian | من آنچه باید بروم در جمیع اطراف و اکناف فریاد بزنم زدم در جمیع شهرها ندا | I who must needs journey forth to every region and corner have raised My call and issued My summons in all cities [3.5s] | AVK4.463.03 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-467.html] | @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action | ||||||||
| AB02083 | 270 | O thou faithful beloved friend! The New Year's greeting was received. I became most grateful and pleased, because you remembered this longing friend | DAS.1915-02-13 CHU.174-175 [https://archive.org/stream/compilationofhol00bahrich#page/174/mode/2up] | @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual transformation, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||||
| AB04443 | 170 | O ye heavenly ones! Organize ye spiritual assemblies. Lay ye the foundation of union | TAB.553-554 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA553] BWF.409-409x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] BSC.461 #855x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v05#09 p.129 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_9] SW_v13#12 p.324 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] | @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||||
| AB00357 | 630 | Persian | ای دوست مهربان بعد از سیاحت تام در جمیع امریکا و شهرهای عظیم اروپا مراجعت | O kind friend! After making a complete journey throughout all the United States and the large cities of Europe, I have returned to the East | BRL_DAK#0556 [https://www.bahai.org/r/466409953] MNMK#117 p.226 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-224.html] MMK5#093 p.073 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-76.html] DWNP_v5#04 p.001-003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] HHA.266 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=275] ANDA#43-44 p.167 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] MJDF.091 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=91] NJB_v04#10 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_10] | SW_v05#08 p.120-122 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_8] SW_v05#09 p.136 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_9] SW_v08#12 p.156 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_12] ABIE.034 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] MHMD2s.335-336x [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @war and peace, @unity of governments; political unity, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology | ||||||||
| ABU2033 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 140 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | During the last six thousand years nations have hated one another, it is now time to stop. | AIL.061 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @war and peace, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @oneness; unity of religion, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| ABU0940 | Interview with Sir William Crookes, 97 Cadogan Gardens in London, 1913-01-18 | 330 | People are running after dogmas... The teachings of Bahá'u'lláh are the spirit of this age; for although material civilization has advanced | DAS.1913-01-18 | @war and peace, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @growth of the Cause, @East and West; communication between East and West, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @blind imitation [taqlid] | ||||||||||
| AB04688 | 160 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای بنده حق نامه ات رسید و سبب سرور گردید آرزوی آن نموده بودی که ایکاش من در | O thou servant of God! Thy letter was received, and was the cause of gladness. Thou hast expressed thine ardent wish | MMK1#226 p.284 [https://www.bahai.org/r/902829695] | SWAB#226 [http://www.bahai.org/r/479881290] SW_v11#04 p.076 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_4] SW_v11#10 p.164-165 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_10] | @war and peace, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @unity of governments; political unity | |||||||
| ABU2519 | Words to Private Sinclair, spoken on 1919-02-14 | 90 | From what I can gather from the events of my life, history clearly shows the wars that have been waged, the peace measures that have been subsequently adopted | SW_v11#03 p.050-051 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_3] | @war and peace, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past | ||||||||||
| AB00586 | 510 | O thou godlike maidservant of the Kingdom! Thy letter was received. Its contents were conducive to the happiness of this depressed one. Thank thou God | DAS.1914-11-06 DAS.1914-10-31 | @war and peace, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @universal peace; world unity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir], @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||||
| ABU1616 | Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-04-11 | 190 | Persian | مقصد ما صلح عمومی و وحدت انسانی است سفری در پاریس و لندن بودم | Our object is universal peace and the unity of humankind. I have traveled to Paris and London and now I have come to America... One of these ills is the people's restlessness and discontent under the yoke of the war expenditures of the world's governments.... It is the war which is today the cause of all trouble. | BDA1.027.02 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-27.html] | DAS.1913-07-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=47] MHMD1.035-036 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=60] ABIE.091 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @war and peace, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal education | |||||||
| AB00840 | 430 | Arabic | رب و رجائی و مجیری و سمیری فی جنح اللیالی ترانی خافضا جناح الذل و الانکسار | O Lord, my Hope, my Shelter and my Companion in the depth of night, behold me with wings lowered in meekness and contrition [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0873 [https://www.bahai.org/r/450115597] AMK.091-092 | @war and peace, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @prayer for peace and unity, @rejection, opposition and persecution | |||||||||
| AB01792 | 290 | Persian | ای انجمن رحمانی از قرار مسموع محفلی آراستید و اجتماعی خواستید تا بخدمت کلمه | O Assembly of the Merciful God! According to the arrangement brought to (My) notice, you have established an organization | BRL_DAK#0045 [http://www.bahai.org/r/117578261] SFI07.018b [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_07.pdf#page=18] VUJUD.013-014x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | VUJUDE.019x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] | @war and peace, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @love and unity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||
| AB11847 | 230 | Persian | ای یاران باوفای عبدالبهاء چندیست که به سبب فتنه و فساد صفحات قفقاسیا و داخلیه | O faithful friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! For some time now, due to the turmoil and corruption in the regions of the Caucasus and the interior [3.5s] | TISH.040 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=35] | @war and peace, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB06061 | 130 | Persian | ای بنده الهی سرهنگ جهان بو و رنگ صف جنگ بیاراید و نام و ننگ جوید اما سالار | O servant of God! The colonel in this world seeketh the scent and hue of the battlefield and yearneth after fame and glory, but the true leader [3.5s] | INBA89:109b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=112] | @war and peace, @symbolism, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||
| AB00126 | 980 | mixed | لک الحمد یا الهی و لک الشکر یا منائی علی ما مننت به علی اصفیائک و انعمت به | All praise be unto Thee, O my God, and all thanksgiving be unto Thee, O my Heart's Desire, for Thy gracious favors bestowed upon Thy chosen ones and the blessings Thou hast granted [3.5s] | MMK5#158 p.123 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-126.html] | @war and peace, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual transformation, @call to action, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as sun, @praise and encouragement, @light and darkness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB02221 | 260 | mixed | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه های متعدد از شما رسید المنه لله که جمیع دلالت بر ایمان | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Numerous letters from thee have reached Us. Praise be to God that all attest to faith [3.5s] | DAUD.31 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol3/daud1/daud1.htm] | @war and peace, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | |||||||||
| AB07723 | 110 | Arabic | ایها الرفیق النورانی قد وقفت علی تحریرکم المورخ ۲۴ نوفمبر ۱۹۱۸ و رتلت ایات | O luminous friend! I have perused thy letter dated November 24, 1918, and have recited its verses [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0446 [http://www.bahai.org/r/906526299] MKT3.494a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-494.html] | @war and peace, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| ABU0613 | The Baha’ís Must Work with Heart and Soul to Bring About a Better Condition in the World: Words spoken on 1911-11-19 in Paris | 460 | Persian | Paris Talks | الحمد لله امروز جمعیت خوبی داریم جهت آنکه این جمعیت ما جمعیت آسمانیست و جهت | How joyful it is to see such a meeting as this, for it is in truth a gathering together of 'heavenly men'… Love and obey your heavenly father | KHAB.182 (193) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.183 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-185.html] | PT#32 p.099 [http://www.bahai.org/r/042381895] | S. Peyman [https://youtu.be/wI5hYS3eNeo] | @war and peace, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||
| AB01924 | 280 | Persian | ای ثابت بر عهد و پیمان مدتیست که با آن یار مهربان گفتگوای ننمودم و از احساسات | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! It hath been some time since I have conversed with that kind friend or expressed my sentiments [3.5s] | INBA16:013 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=15] | BRL_DAK#0852 [https://www.bahai.org/r/191128287] KHSK.110-111 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/khsk.pdf#page=110] | @war and peace, @spiritual transformation, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion | ||||||||
| ABU1416 | 230 | The law of peace has come to stay. We are living in the radiant age of peace. We are daily advancing in the path of peace. | SW_v13#11 p.293-294 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_11] | @war and peace, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @unity of governments; political unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||||
| ABU1378 | Words spoken on 1915-05-05 in Abu Sinan | 230 | Persian | من شما را بجهت خدمت امرالله میخواهم میخواهم شما در جمیع آنچه میبینید و تجربه کرده اید | I wish for you consecrated services to the Cause of God. I wish for you to manifest radiant attributes under all conditions and to raise the Word of God. | KHH1.221-222 (1.309-310) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=252] | KHHE.324 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-05-05 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=43] BSR_v13 p.102 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan] | @war and peace, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||
| ABU0237 | Interview for al-Ahram newspaper, Ramleh, 1913-10-15 | 850 | We were thrown into the barrack, and no permission was given to have intercourse with the outside world... | DAS.1913-10-15 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=12] | @war and peace, @race unity; racial issues, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @religion as source of love and unity | ||||||||||
| AB12110 | 730 | Persian | ای دختر محترمه ملکوت نامه‌ئی که فرستاده بودی رسید مضمون مشحون بر معانی بدیعه بود | O esteemed daughter of the Kingdom! The letter thou didst send hath been received, and its contents were replete with wondrous meanings [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0657 [https://www.bahai.org/r/423559151] | @war and peace, @prophecy and fulfillment, @universal peace; world unity, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @equality of men and women, @harmony of science and religion | |||||||||
| AB01247 | 350 | O well-wisher of all humanity! The poem entitled “The Woods of Blavincourt” has been perused. It was eloquent and consummate. | TDD.011-012 | @war and peace, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB02578 | 240 | O thou beloved maidservant of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh! Thy letter was received. Its contents indicated that thou art sad | DAS.1914-10-21x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=26] | @war and peace, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||||
| ABU1626 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-20 | 190 | Association with outsiders is like unto a 'knife-edge file'. It wears and cuts away the spirit. One does not hear from them one joy-creating word. From noon till now I have been speaking | DAS.1915-04-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=7] | @war and peace, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly | ||||||||||
| ABU0359 | Words spoken on 1914-08-03 in Haifa | 660 | Persian | معرکه شده است دنیا بهم خورده است در کارند که همه بجان یکدیگر بریزند در امریکا و اروپا | A resurrection is set up! The world is topsy-turvy! The wrong side of human character is up! [KHH: A great tumult is ensuing. The whole world is in cataclysm. They are determined to cause universal upheaval.] | KHH1.291-293 (1.405-408) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=322] | KHHE.420-423 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-08-03 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=91] SW_v05#11 p.163-166 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_11] SW_v07#15 p.136 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v13#12 p.324 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] | @war and peace, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @the animal kingdom, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | |||||||
| AB02291 | 260 | O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of god! Thy letter dated December 26th | SW_v10#06 p.110 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_6] BSTW#262 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=22] BSTW#263 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=23] | @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @unity; oneness of humanity, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||||
| AB00177 | 860 | mixed | ای یاران دل و جان جهانرا ظلمت غفلت احاطه نموده و افق عالم را ابرهای تاریک | O ye the beloved of my heart and soul! The world of being is encompassed by mankind's heedlessness and all horizons are hidden by dark clouds. The world of humanity has become afflicted by hardship | MKT4.114 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-114.html] PYM.264x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-264.html] MSHR5.210x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=206] YHA1.144x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=146] YHA1.425-426x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=427] KHH1.333-335 (1.464) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=364] | KHHE.471-474 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] | @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @prophecy and fulfillment, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||
| 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 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/G-L/G/guftar/isa012.jpg] | ISAE.1919-12-30 [http://bahai-library.com/isfahani_rabbani_with_abdul-baha] | @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @power of faith; power of the spirit | |||||||
| ABU2714 | Words spoken on 1915-01-09 in Abu Sinan | 70 | Persian | این جنگ بلای خانمانسوزی است ولی بعد از این نفوس صلحجو زیاد خواهد شد | This war is indeed ruinous and devastating in its effects. However, afterwards, the number of peace-loving people will grow considerably | KHH1.145 (1.201) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=176] | KHHE.216 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] BSR_v13 p.086 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan] | @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | |||||||
| AB00172 | 870 | Persian | این مسجون چهل ساله بعد از آزادی مدت ۳ سال یعنی از سنه هزار و نهصد و ده تا | O thou beloved daughter! Thy letter was received… After the declaration of the constitutional regime in Turkey in 1908 | MNMK#087 p.154 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-152.html] HHA.262 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=271] ADH2_1#55 p.085x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#055 p.055x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-58.html] MJDF.072 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=72] KHF.080 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=83] KHAB.001 (013) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.043 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-45.html] NJB_v05#16 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_16] VUJUD.015-016x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | COC#1606x SW_v05#16 p.243-245 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_16] SW_v06#11 p.084 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_11] SW_v18#11 p.343 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_18/Issue_11] DWN_v1#12 p.007ax [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] BSTW#153 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=5] BSTW#213a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_201-250.pdf#page=17] VUJUDE.022-023x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] ADMS#049x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-prayer-relief/] | @war and peace, @prayer for peace and unity, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @predictions and prophecies, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @call to action | ||||||||
| ABU2319 | Conversation with Dr Finkelstein, Abu Sinan, 1915-02-28 | 100 | Persian | اینگونه مجالس بصرف فضل و اراده الهیه تشکیل میشود و الا ما کجا و شما کجا چه نسبتی در میان است | Such gatherings are only possible through the divine bounties and favours... Yes, indeed. The relationship between the East and the West must be like that | KHH1.180-182 (1.252) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=211] | KHHE.262-265 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] BSR_v13 p.092 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan] | @war and peace, @praise of Eastern values; culture, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @unity in diversity, @critique of Western values; culture, @East and West; communication between East and West, @growth of the Cause, @predictions and prophecies, @praise of Western values; culture | |||||||
| AB05089 | 150 | Persian | ای بنده پیمان سرهنگ ناسوتی صف حرب و جنگ بیاراید ولی سرهنگ ملکوتی باهنگ تسبیح | O servant of the Covenant! The earthly colonel may array the ranks for battle and war, but the heavenly colonel leads with the melody of praise [3.5s] | INBA84:550 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=553] | @war and peace, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB09099 | 90 | O thou servant of God! What thou hast written was perused. Be thou rejoiced on account of | TAB.546 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA546] | @war and peace, @praise and encouragement, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @love and unity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||||||
| AB05466 | 150 | mixed | یار وفادارا گویند عنقریب رجال جهان کیهان بیارایند و جشن صلح عمومی برپا نمایند | O faithful friend! It is said that ere long shall the world's dignitaries adorn the firmament and establish the celebration of universal peace [3.5s] | MKT3.344 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-344.html] MMK6#126 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=95] AKHA_106BE #12 p.04 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] MSHR2.162 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-164.html] | @war and peace, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @unity of governments; political unity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||
| ABU0113 | Words spoken at home of Mrs. Gastea in Paris, 1911-11-26 | 1170 | Persian | جمیع انبیای الهی مظاهر حقیقت بودند حضرت موسی اعلان حقیقت کرد حضرت مسیح ترویج | All the divine prophets are the Manifestations of Truth. His Highness Moses declared the Truth.... The foundation of divine religion is love, affinity and concord. | AVK4.323x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-327.html] DWNP_v1#08 p.005-006 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.288 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=291] KHAB.204 (214) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.213 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-215.html] KHTP.161 | SW_v02#18 p.003-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_18] SW_v06#15 p.120 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_15] | @war and peace, @oneness; unity of religion, @love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @supreme tribunal, @power of love, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace | |||||||
| AB00309 | 670 | Persian | ای اهل عالم طلوع شمس حقیقت محض نورانیت عالم است و ظهور رحمانیت در انجمن بنی‌آدم | O people of the world! The dawn of the Sun of Reality is assuredly for the illumination of the world | BLIB_Or.08117.006 | DWNP_v5#02-3 p.003-004x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] | BWF.215-217x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] BSC.422 #766x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v11#09 p.133-134x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_9] | @war and peace, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @spiritual transformation, @love and unity, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @love of God | |||||||
| ABU1991 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-01 | 140 | Persian | من در اروپا همیشه میگفتم که امر حضرت بهاٌالله جامع جمیع ادیان قبل است و دارای جمیع فواید | While in Europe, I always proclaimed, ‘The Cause of Baha'u'llah embraces all the past Dispensations and manifests all their benefits to human society. It is like a tree that has many strong branches. | KHH1.268 (1.374-375) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=299] | KHHE.392 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-12-01 | @war and peace, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||
| ABU0679 | The Cruel Indifference of People towards the Suffering of Foreign Races: Words spoken on 1911-11-24 in Paris | 430 | Persian | Paris Talks | میگویند یک ترن در رود سن افتاده بیست و پنج نفر غرق شده و امروز در پارلمان | I have just been told that there has been a terrible accident in this country. A train has fallen into the river and at least twenty people have been killed. | BRL_DAK#1241 [https://www.bahai.org/r/545600566] KHAB.197 (207) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.204 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-206.html] KHTP.152 | PT#37 p.115 [http://www.bahai.org/r/975437645] SW_v07#11 p.106-107 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_11] SW_v16#08 p.616 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_8] ABS#13 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/11/23/the-italian-attack-on-tripoli-and-human-heartlessness/] | @war and peace, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||
| ABU1669 | Words spoken on 1915-04-07 in Abu Sinan | 180 | Persian | چقدر انسان بیوفا است بهزار زحمت و مشقت و با اشک | Consider man's infidelity. With a thousand worries, troubles and tears he raises a child. Then, he readily puts thousands upon thousands to the sword. | KHH1.204 (1.286) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=235] | KHHE.299-300 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] BSR_v13 p.097 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan] | @war and peace, @justice and wrath of God, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @love and unity | |||||||
| ABU1860 | Words to some Druze friends, spoken on 1914-11-03 | 160 | I read in a newspaper the other day a story concerning the present conflict raging between the European Powers | DAS.1914-11-03 | @war and peace, @justice and wrath of God | ||||||||||
| ABU1805 | Words spoken ca. Oct. 1911 | 170 | There has been another battle today and much blood has been shed. The poor have given their lives | SW_v02#14 p.005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | @war and peace, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @unity; oneness of humanity, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others | ||||||||||
| ABU2652 | Words to Lua Getsinger in 1904 | 80 | Russia indeed made a great mistake in attacking Japan after Japan had made the first attack for this reason. | PN_1904 p094 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=94] | @war and peace, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice | ||||||||||
| ABU1732 | Words spoken on 1912-10-14 in San Francisco | 180 | Welcome, very welcome! Praise be to God that he confirmed me to come here to see you, for I had the greatest longing to see the friends in America | ECN.136 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=136] | @war and peace, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @call to action | ||||||||||
| AB02602 | 240 | Persian | ای یاران الهی نامه شما رسید فی الحقیقه مفرح بود و مورث روح و ریحان نامه باید چنین | O divine friends! Your letter was received and verily it brought joy and was conducive to spiritual fragrance. Thus should letters be [3.5s] | MKT3.303 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-303.html] | @war and peace, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| ABU0363 | Interview with W. H. Short at Hotel Ansonia in New York, 1912-04-15 | 660 | You are very welcome; am most happy to greet you. I have looked forward with much pleasure to this meeting | BDA1.035n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-35.html] | SW_v03#07 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_7] | MHMD1.044 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=69] | @war and peace, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | ||||||||
| ABU0276 | There Can Be No True Happiness and Progress without Spirituality: Words spoken on 1911-11-21 in Paris | 770 | Persian | Paris Talks | درندگی سزاوار حیوانات وحشیه است و سزاوار انسان الفت و محبتست خدا جمیع انبیا | Ferocity and savagery are natural to animals, but men should show forth the qualities of love and affection. God sent all His Prophets into the world with one aim… Oh, trust in God! For His Bounty is everlasting | BRL_DAK#0956 [https://www.bahai.org/r/495604294] AMK.204-207 KHF.049 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=52] KHAB.188 (199) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.192 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-194.html] KHTP.139 | PT#34 p.106 [http://www.bahai.org/r/358841053] DWN_v1#12 p.007cx [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] | N. Ma'ani [https://nasimmaani.bandcamp.com/track/trust-in-god] Friends in Paris [https://youtu.be/GjW06lQGsTs] | @war and peace, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @oneness; unity of religion, @harmony of science and religion, @transcending the material condition, @justice and wrath of God | |||||
| AB02129 | 270 | Persian | ای یاران الهی نامه شما رسید از مضمون سرور بی پایان حاصل گردید که الحمد لله | O ye beloved of the Lord! Your letter hath been received and the contents thereof have imparted the utmost joy and gladness. | BRL_DAK#0845 [https://www.bahai.org/r/617196166] MMK2#281 p.201 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-203.html] | SW_v20#09 p.271x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_20/Issue_9] TDD.019 | @war and peace, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @praise and encouragement, @wisdom [hikmat], @unity; oneness of humanity, @The Holy Spirit | ||||||||
| ABU2008 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-13 | 140 | Napoleon the great conquered Germany and brought under his control its domain but to what result! It was only a temporary victory. | DAS.1914-11-13 | @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @unity; oneness of humanity, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people | ||||||||||
| ABU2630 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-18 | 80 | This world is like unto a theatre on the stage of which all kinds of drama, plays, tragedies, comedies and operas are presented | DAS.1914-11-18 | @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion | ||||||||||
| AB02500 | 240 | O thou respected maidservant of god! Thy letter dated November 17th, 1918, was received | SW_v10#03 p.039-040 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_3] SEIO.022-023x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SEIO.pdf#page=22] | @war and peace, @equality of men and women, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||||
| ABU0843 | Words to Mr and Mrs Holback, spoken on 1914-02-12 | 360 | Some of the materialists have always endeavored to refute the wholesome influence exerted by the power of religion over the members of a community. | DAS.1914-02-12 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=72] | @war and peace, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @Christ; Christianity, @Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, @miracles and their interpretation | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=69] | @war and peace, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @universal peace; world unity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | ||||||||||
| AB02153 | Address to the readers of The Christian Commonwealth, Jan. 1913 | 270 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | خداوند عالمیان عالم انسانی را جنت عدن خلق فرموده اگر صلح و سلام و محبت و وفا | The Lord of all mankind hath fashioned this human realm to be a Garden of Eden, an earthly paradise. | MKT4.150 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-150.html] MNMK#119 p.229 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-227.html] MMK1#220 p.265 [https://www.bahai.org/r/115650062] AKHA_126BE #01 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] HHA.234 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=243] MJDF.088 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=88] NJB_v03#18 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_18] BDA2.098 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-106.html] | SWAB#220 [http://www.bahai.org/r/112207371] BBBD.195-197 SW_v04#01 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_1] MHMD2.119-120 | @war and peace, @contention and conflict, @love and unity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @Adam; Adam and Eve | ||||||
| ABU0657 | Words spoken on 1912-10-10 in San Francisco | 450 | I have received a letter from the friends in Persia, who send greetings to you. They long to see you, and their greatest desire is for the day to come | ECN.114 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=114] | @war and peace, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence, @limits of the intellect, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love and unity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||||
| AB00341 | 640 | mixed | ای دوستان معنوی و یاران حقیقی عبدالبهاء هر چند آفت وبا جمیع انحاء اقلیم مقدس | O spiritual friends and true companions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Though the affliction of plague hath encompassed all regions of the Holy Land [3.5s] | INBA16:056 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=58] | MKT4.068 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-68.html] MILAN.088 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/088.jpg] | @war and peace, @civil courts, @critique of Western values; culture, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | ||||||||
| AB07441 | 110 | Persian | ای سرهنگ ملکوتی صف جنگ را بهل محفل صلح بیارا میدان رزم بگذار و بزم آشتی مهیا | O celestial commander, forsake the ranks of warfare and adorn the assemblage of peace. Abandon the battlefield and prepare the feast of reconciliation [3.5s] | MKT5.088a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-89.html] | @war and peace, @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love and unity | |||||||||
| AB04017 | 180 | Persian | ای رستم روش نوع انسان امروز جور و ستم است و درندگی و تیزچنگی و خونخواری و | O Rustam! The way of humankind today is oppression and tyranny, savagery and sharp-clawed ferocity, and bloodthirstiness [3.5s] | YARP2.442 p.333 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-339.html] | @war and peace, @call to action, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @kindness to and rights of animals | |||||||||
| ABU2234 | Words spoken on 1915-07-23 in Haifa | 110 | Persian | سیاسیون عالم برآنند که چیزی که سبب ترقیات مادی و عقلی است حرب است. ولی خودشان عربان بادیه را حقیر | The politicians of the world maintain that war is the cause of material and intellectual progress [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-07-23 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @war and peace | ||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_24/Issue_4] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | |||||||||||
| ABU1896 | Words spoken on 1911-10-17 in Paris | 160 | I wish you to study the works of the Blessed Beauty and to live according to His teaching. | SW_v02#16 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_16] PN_1911 p016 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=16] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @words vs deeds, @unity; oneness of humanity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @importance of reading the Sacred Writings, @nearness to God | ||||||||||
| ABU2505 | Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias | 90 | You pray for us and we shall pray for you, so that God may assist us in the performance of good deeds. | DAS.1914-06-01 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=69] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @words vs deeds, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||||
| AB00423 | Tablet to the Hague II | 590 | Persian | Tablet to the Central Organization for a Durable Peace, The Hague (Lawh-i-Hague) | Second Tablet to The Hague | اعضای محترما جواب نامه من که بتاریخ ۱۲ جون ۱۹۲۰ مرقوم فرموده بودید رسید نهایت | Your reply, dated 12 June 1920, to my letter was received with the utmost gratitude. | BRL_HAGP2 [http://www.bahai.org/r/729376637] MKT4.199 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-199.html] MNMK#113 p.218 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-216.html] MSBH9.364-366 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/255.pdf#page=179] YHA1.340x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=342] | BRL_HAG2 [https://www.bahai.org/r/446591591] SW_v11#17 p.288-289 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17] ABCC.439-440x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=469] BLO_PT#192 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_lawh_hague_bwc] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @war and peace, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @martyrs and martyrdom, @universal peace; world unity | |||||
| ABU2305 | Words spoken at 1815 California Street in San Francisco, 1912-10-10 | 110 | You are all welcome, exceedingly welcome. I have journeyed a great distance to visit you, having longed to see you, for Bahá’u’lláh has created a marvelous love in the hearts | ECN.120+471+476+599+606 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=120] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | ||||||||||
| AB01903 | 280 | …If any differences of opinion may arise in those regions you must keep yourself entirely aloof and show forth love and kindness | BWF.408-408x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity | |||||||||||
| ABU0387 | Address to the Baha'is at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-06-13 | 630 | Persian | Promulgation of Universal Peace | خسته بودم قدری خوابیدم در خواب میدیدم که با شماها صحبت میدارم ولی بصوت جلی | I have made you wait for a while, but as I was tired I slept a little. While I was sleeping... I desire distinction for you | BDA1.123.x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-123.html] | LOG#0320x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n320] PUP#068 (p.189-190) [http://www.bahai.org/r/631186057] SW_v03#10 p.017 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] SW_v19#07 p.220 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_7] DWN_v6#04 p.001x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] MHMD1.132 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=157] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity in diversity, @excellence; distinction, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence, @differences in human capacity | ||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-52.html] | 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 | |||||||
| AB02113 | 270 | mixed | ای مومن ممتحن احوالاتی که مرقوم نموده بودید این امتحانات الهیه است و امتحان | O tried believer! The circumstances thou didst recount are divine tests, and trials [3.5s] | MMK6#025 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=22] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB04430 | 170 | mixed | ای گل گلشن محبت الله حضرت مسیح روحی له الفداء در انجیل میفرماید المدعوون | O thou rose of the Rose-Garden of the Love of God! His Holiness Christ-may my spirit be His sacrifice!—saith in the Gospel, Many are called… A soul is known through his conduct, manners, words, and deeds | BRL_DAK#0688 [https://www.bahai.org/r/806256277] ANDA#79 p.05x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-79] | BRL_ATE#073x [http://www.bahai.org/r/248937203] TAB.306-307 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA306] ADMS#203ax [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/excerpts_abdul-baha_encouraging_study_persian/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @many are called but few are chosen, @light and darkness, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @love and unity | ||||||||
| AB04672 | 160 | Persian | ای بنده آستان حق امیدوارم که از هر جهت منتصر باشی و منتظر ظهور الطاف الهی | O servant of the threshold of God! I hope that thou mayest be victorious in every respect and anticipating the manifestation of divine favours [3.5s] | INBA17:041 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=43] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB06282 | 130 | O thou dear maidservant of God! Thy letter was received. From its | SW_v10#19 p.342 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_19] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||||
| AB06724 | 120 | Persian | هر نفس هوشيار براحت و نعمت و سرور موقّت دل نبندد در جميع امور حقيقت ابدی جويد | Every discerning soul attacheth not its heart to transient comfort, bounty and joy, but in all matters seeketh after eternal truth [3.5s] | MMK3#092 p.061x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-63.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness | |||||||||
| AB05090 | 150 | mixed | ای بنده جانفشان جمال ابهی در قرآن حضرت رحمان میفرماید ان تنصروا الله ینصرکم و | O self-sacrificing servant of the Abhá Beauty! In the Qur'án the All-Merciful declareth: "If ye assist God, He will assuredly assist you" [3.5s] | INBA17:042 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=44] | MMK6#490 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=359] ANDA#58 p.04 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-58] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @predictions and prophecies, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation | ||||||||
| AB01434 | 330 | Persian | ای یاران عبدالبهاء امه الله روحانی مکتوبی از لسان شما انشا نموده و ارسال | O friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! A spiritual letter hath been composed and dispatched in your name [3.5s] | MKT7.242 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-246.html] YBN.048-049 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=53] RSR.050 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/rsr.pdf#page=46] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| AB06589 | 120 | O thou attracted maidservant of God! Thy letter was received. Its contents were redolent with spiritual emotion. | TAB.506 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA506] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul, @spiritual transformation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @bringing forth results; fruit | |||||||||||
| AB08153 | 100 | Persian | ای عبد صغیر فقیر جمال مبارک اگرچه نهال تازه گلشن محبت حضرت احدیتی لکن از فضل | O thou humble and lowly servant of the Blessed Beauty! Though thou art but a tender sapling in the garden of love of the Lord of Oneness, yet through His grace [3.5s] | HUV1.036 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/621.pdf#page=36] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul | |||||||||
| AB01114 | 370 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه روحانی آنجناب با معانی رحمانی واصل و مفهوم و معلوم شد | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy spiritual letter with its celestial meanings hath reached me and its contents are understood and clear [3.5s] | INBA88:360 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=394] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the power of words; of speech, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB12573 | 100 | O thou eloquent speaker! Every bird which reaches the rosegarden it breaks forth into lay and began singing various harmonies | BBBD.177-178 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the power of words; of speech, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||||
| AB04630 | Words to Anise Rideout | 160 | other/unknown lang | اولین قدم ایجاد طلب ورحانیت در قلب است و بعد دارا شدن حیات بهائی حیات بهائی حیات بهائی | The first thing to do is to acquire a thirst for Spirituality, then live the life! Live the life! Live the life! | RRT.099-100 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=99] QIRT.22-23 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/nusus-i-mubarakih_dar-bariy-i-qiyam-i-imair-rahman_bih_tabligh.pdf] | COC#0425x [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_importance_deepening#425] SW_v19#03 p.069 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_3] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the power of example, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||
| AB03464 | 200 | Persian | ملکوت الهی بقوّهء کلمة اللّه و تأييد روح القدس در عالم وجود تأسيس شد و انوار صلح و سلام از شمس حقيقت | The Kingdom of God hath been established in the world of existence through the power of the Word of God and the confirmations of the Holy Spirit, and the lights of peace and tranquillity have shone forth from the Sun of Reality [3.5s] | MMK3#115 p.078x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-80.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @The Holy Spirit, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @universal peace; world unity, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB09682 | 80 | Arabic | مثل کلمه طیبه لشجره طیبه اصلها ثابت و فرعها فی السماء اعلم ان حسن الاخلاق و | Like unto a goodly tree is the goodly word, its roots firmly fixed and its branches reaching unto heaven. Know thou that goodly character [3.5s] | INBA87:222b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=224] INBA52:227b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=229] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | |||||||||
| ABU0478 | The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace: Words spoken on 1911-10-21 in Paris | 550 | mixed | Paris Talks | امروز حوادث ایطالیا و ترکیا را خواندم باز محاربه جدیدی شده خون بیچارگان انسان | I hope you are all happy and well. I am not happy, but very sad. The news of the Battle of Benghazi grieves my heart. I wonder at the human savagery that still exists in the world! | KHAB.106 (115) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.087 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-89.html] | PT#06 p.017 [http://www.bahai.org/r/237175928] SW_v02#14 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | E. Mahony [https://music.elikamahony.com/track/a-thought-of-peace] jeph.ilosopher [https://jeph.bandcamp.com/track/strength] Maryam & Nabil [https://youtu.be/NPwHmv5VnmA] N. Ma'ani [https://nasimmaani.bandcamp.com/track/peace-is-light] T. Ellis [https://youtu.be/030w9ZffsqI] A. & M. Zemke [track 1] [https://9starmedia.com/anthony-and-michael-zemke-strive] K. Key [https://youtu.be/nwzQPddvTzM] G.H. Miller [https://youtu.be/b5W9FlVEddA] Nica, Sahar & Delara [https://youtu.be/iY9dP9kI-VQ] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @importance of prayer, @war and peace, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | |||||
| AB06593 | 120 | Persian | ای امه الله در این دور الهی و کور رحمانی که آفتاب بخشش یزدانی از جمیع نقاط | O handmaiden of God! In this divine cycle and merciful dispensation, when the Sun of divine bounty from all points [3.5s] | MKT9.025b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=13] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @consolation and comfort, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| AB03201 | 210 | Persian | آن جان پاک بجهان تابناک شتافت و آن ستاره روشن بافق ابدی صعود نمود | That pure soul hath hastened to the luminous realm, and that bright star hath ascended to the everlasting horizon [3.5s] | MMK2#320 p.234x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-236.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @consolation and comfort, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB12310 | 180 | Persian | ای ناشر لوای ذکر و رافع اعلام ثنای الهی جناب خان در این سجن اعظم وارد و بزیارات | O thou who dost raise high the banners of praise and glorification of God! His honor the Khan hath arrived at this Most Great Prison and attained unto visitation [3.5s] | INBA85:222 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=224] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech | |||||||||
| AB01093 | 380 | mixed | لک الحمد یا الهی بما بعثت نفوسا نورانیه من مراقدها و حشرت عصبه رحمانیه و | Praise be unto Thee, O my God, inasmuch as Thou hast raised up luminous souls from their resting-places and hast gathered together a company possessed of divine mercy [3.5s] | AKHA_123BE #03 p.d [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power of prayer, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @humility; meekness; lowliness | |||||||||
| AB00987 | 390 | mixed | ای ادیب دبستان عرفان علیک بهاء الله و ثنائه و لحظات اعین رحمانیته و انظار | O thou luminary of the school of mystic knowledge! Upon thee be the Glory of God and His praise, and the glances of His all-merciful eyes and gaze [3.5s] | INBA55:109 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=111] | BRL_DAK#0282 [http://www.bahai.org/r/434299592] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | ||||||||
| AB02757 | 630 | Persian | ای منجذب نفحات الله نامه مرقوم ملاحظه گردید مضمون مشحون بانجذابات روحانیه | O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of God! Thy letter was received, and its contents were filled with spiritual attractions [3.5s]... ...Jináb-i-Karbilá’í Muhammad-Hádí, the custodian of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár, is my master. In other words, I am his servant | BRL_DAK#0888 [https://www.bahai.org/r/932373118] COMP_MASHRIQP#17x [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/originals_mashriq_compilation.pdf] MSHR3.053x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-55.html] MSHR3.124x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-126.html] | BRL_MASHRIQ#17x [http://www.bahai.org/r/018454128] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love and unity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | ||||||||
| ABU0617 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-06-23 | 460 | Persian | بسیار خوش رفتار بود. از روزی که باین امر اقبال کرد خدمت کرد تا نفس اخیر، یعنی فی الحقیقه دقیقه ای فتور نداشت | His holiness [Muhammad Taqi] Afnan was a man of delightful character and sociability. He came to Baghdad when we lived there and visited the Blessed Perfection. | ZSM.1915-06-23 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | DAS.1915-06-24 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||
| AB01120a | 370 | ...Today it is incumbent upon the believers to forget and lay aside every thought and every preoccupation save the diffusion of the Fragrances of God | AYBY.423 #134 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-432.html] TSS.052 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/tss.pdf#page=55] TRZ1.294 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf#page=1] | PN_various p016x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @eulogies; reminiscences, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @education of children; moral education, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | ||||||||||
| AB01120b | 370 | mixed | ای دو منادی میثاق تحاریر متعدده از آن دو سراج منیر وارد و مضامین سبب سرور و | O two Heralds of the Covenant! Numerous letters from those two luminous lamps have arrived, and their contents are the cause of joy [3.5s] | AYBY.423 #134 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-432.html] TSS.052 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/tss.pdf#page=55] TRZ1.294 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf#page=1] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @eulogies; reminiscences, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @education of children; moral education, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | |||||||||
| AB01282 | 350 | Persian | ایها النیر المنیر و سیناء الانوار اگر مشتاق دیدارید توجه بملکوت ابهی کنید و | O luminous Light and Sinai of splendours! If thou art yearning for the encounter, turn thee to the Abhá Kingdom [3.5s] | MKT1.464 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-463.html] AHB.128BE #06-11 p.259 AHB.131BE #32 p.46 YHA1.377x (2.758) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=379] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||
| AB08906 | 90 | mixed | ای مومن موقن بایات الله مکاتیب متعدده شما واصل و شکایت از قلت مراسلات غیر | O thou steadfast believer in the verses of God! Thy numerous letters have been received, and thy complaint regarding the paucity of correspondence from others hath been noted [3.5s] | MSHR3.247-248x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-249.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB00433 | 590 | mixed | ای یار مهربان عبدالبهاء نامه ایکه بجناب اسدالله مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گشت از | O kind friend of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The letter thou didst address to Jináb-i-Asadu'lláh hath been perused [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0775 [https://www.bahai.org/r/243912489] MKT5.173 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-174.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @justice and mercy | |||||||||
| AB09696 | 80 | mixed | یا کاظم کظم غیظ از خصائص ابرار است و خصائل احرار تا توانی بردبار باش و متحمل | O Kazim! Restraining one's anger is among the characteristics of the righteous and the attributes of the free. As far as thou art able, be thou forbearing and patient [3.5s] | MMK6#508 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=372] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @symbolism, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | |||||||||
| AB08257 | 100 | Persian | ای ناطق بثنای الهی در این عرصه عالم که هواجس هوی و شقی قلوب اهل امکانرا استیلا | O thou who proclaimeth divine praise in this realm of existence, wherein the whisperings of desire and wayward hearts of the people of the contingent world hold sway [3.5s] | PYB#172 p.02 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/172.PDF#page=2] ANDA#33 p.19 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-33] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| AB08673 | 90 | Persian | ای ثمره طیبه چون در عالم امکان نگری هر نفسی ثمر شجریست و هر نبتی کل چمنی ثمر | O noble fruit! When thou gazest upon the contingent world, every soul is the fruit of a tree, and every plant is the flower of a meadow [3.5s] | MMK3#243 p.175 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-177.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| AB04295 | 170 | Persian | ای بنده درگاه الهی نامه های سابق نرسید ولی نامه لاحق واصل شد از تلاوتش معلوم | O servant of the Divine Threshold! The former letters did not arrive, but the latter letter hath been received. From its perusal it became evident [3.5s] | MKT5.065 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-66.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @growth of the Cause | |||||||||
| AB00871 | 420 | mixed | ای یاران روحانی و اماء رحمان این خاکدان فانی جغدان نادانرا سزاوار و این گلخن | O spiritual companions and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! This ephemeral dust-heap befitteth none but ignorant owls, and this furnace [3.5s] | INBA87:143 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=145] INBA52:140 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=142] | MMK2#060 p.046 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-48.html] TABN.038 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=38] ANDA#69 p.07 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-69-hi] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @constitutional revolution in Iran | ||||||||
| ABU1187 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-27 | 270 | Beneath the shade of the Blessed Perfection there must occur in a Baha'i life a complete regeneration! If he continues to live in accord with the old standards and habits, then what has he gained by the change of a name! | DAS.1915-04-27 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=24] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | ||||||||||
| AB04127 | 180 | mixed | ای یاران روحانی من دو بنده درگاه الهی آرزوی آن نموده اند که این مسجون همدم سر | O My spiritual friends! Two servants of the Divine Threshold have expressed their desire that this imprisoned one become their companion [3.5s] | MKT9.250 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=126] MMK3#110 p.073 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-75.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||
| AB04710 | 160 | Persian | ای تشنه چشمه حقیقت نامه ات رسید و ترجمه حیاتت معلوم گردید الحمد لله همیشه | O thou who art thirsty for the Fountain of Truth! Thy letter was received and the account of thy life has been known. | AKHA_106BE #09 p.03 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_109BE #08 p.11 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AHB.120BE #07 p.253 ANDA#47 p.34 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-47] MYD.578 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/390.pdf#page=584] DVB5.160 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/danish_va_binish_vol_5_reduced.pdf#page=160] | ABTM.009 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @second birth, @power of prayer, @being a source of light; guidance, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | ||||||||
| AB06228 | 130 | mixed | ای سرگشته صحرای الهی آنچه مرقوم نمودی مسموع گردید و هر چه منظور نمودی ملحوظ | O wayfarer of the divine desert, that which thou hast written hath been heard, and all that thou hast intended hath been observed [3.5s] | MSBH4.483-484 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=240] MUH1.0173 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=27] YQAZ.228 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/yaran-i-qazvin_munjadhiban-i-jamal-i-mubin.pdf] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @primordial Covenant; the day of alast, @scarcity of receptive souls | |||||||||
| AB01285 | 350 | mixed | ای دوستان حقیقی در آیهٴ مبارکه میفرماید انّ الّذین قالوا ربّنا اللّه ثمّ استقاموا تتنزّل علیهم الملائکه | O ye true friends! In the blessed verse He saith: "As to those who say 'Our Lord is God' and then stand steadfast, the angels descend upon them." [3.5s] | MMK3#159 p.111x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-113.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB01802 | 290 | Persian | ای پروردگار ای یزدان مهربان یاران را مورد الطاف بی پایان کن و دوستانرا مظاهر | O Lord, O Kind Providence! Make the friends the recipients of Thine infinite bounties, and render Thy loved ones the manifestations [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0846 [https://www.bahai.org/r/032426067] AHB.107BE #02 p.24 DUR3.138 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB02825 | 230 | mixed | سبحانک اللهم یا الهی هذا قضیب نسیب نصبته فی ریاض محبتک و ربیته بایادی ربوبیتک | Praise and glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! This is a choice sapling which Thou hast planted in the meads of Thy love | BRL_DAK#1200 [https://www.bahai.org/r/474362142] HUV2.011 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/H2/h2-15.html] MMTF.008 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/66.pdf#page=8] | BRL_CHILD#13 [https://www.bahai.org/r/762383960] BPRY.254-255 [http://www.bahai.org/r/716258357] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | ||||||||
| ABU2285 | Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London | 110 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Praise be to God, this century is a glorious century; may love increase every day | AIL.107 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @Christ; Christianity, @symbolism, @words vs deeds, @power of love | |||||||||
| AB04406 | 170 | Persian | ای شعله محبت الله حضرت ابی الفضائل را نچنان حسن توجه و فرط محبت بانجنابست که | O flame of the love of God! Such is the excellence of regard and surpassing affection that His Holiness Abú'l-Faḍá'il beareth toward your honoured self that [3.5s] | INBA13:386 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=193] INBA59:157 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=159] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @call to action, @praise and encouragement, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | |||||||||
| ABU2398 | Words spoken on 1914-04-17 | 100 | You must become the shining candles of moral precepts and spiritual ideas | COC#0796x LOG#0717x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n717] DAS.1914-04-17 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=33] SW_v09#09 p.098 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_9] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @being a source of light; guidance, @excellence; distinction | ||||||||||
| ABU1633 | Words to Baha'is from Esslingen, spoken on 1913-04-06 | 190 | You are welcome. You must thank God and I must thank God that a meeting like unto this is being held; for this meeting cannot be compared with other meetings. | DAS.1913-04-06 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @being a source of light; guidance | ||||||||||
| ABU0721 | Words to Howard MacNutt spoken around 1912-04-15 | 410 | A great steamship has been lost at sea. Today newspaper accounts of the Titanic | SW_v04#12 p.210 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_12] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | ||||||||||
| ABU0464 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 560 | The first state of the perceiving soul is that in which it is engrossed in the gratification of desire. In this state its nature is like that of animals | AELT.169-172 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=216] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual transformation, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @universal peace; world unity | ||||||||||
| AB02239 | 260 | Persian | ای دوستان حضرت یزدان هر چند بابدان هزاران فرسنگ دورید و مهجور ولی بدل و جان | O ye friends of God, though ye be distant by countless leagues and far removed, yet in heart and soul [3.5s] | MMK5#220 p.169 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-172.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB11927 | 120 | Persian | ای یاران الهی هر انجمنی را اعضای ممتحنی که لیاقت عضویت و استعداد ماهیت دارند | O friends of God! Every assembly is in need of seasoned members who are worthy of its membership and are endowed with innate capacities | BRL_DAK#0396 [http://www.bahai.org/r/161765373] | BRL_ATE#131 [http://www.bahai.org/r/717180143] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_1] PN_unsorted p076 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=76] TDLA.005 [https://archive.org/stream/tendaysinlighta00illgoog#page/n11/mode/2up] BLO_PN#104 [https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka] | @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 | ||||||||||
| AB03943 | 180 | mixed | ای بنده حق نامه مختصر بدیعت واصل و مضمون در نهایت فصاحت و بلاغت بود جوامع | O servant of the Truth! Thy brief and original letter was received, and its contents were endowed with the utmost eloquence and literary excellence [3.5s] | PYB#119 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/119.PDF#page=4] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @silence; fewness of words, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB09695 | 80 | Persian | یا شقیقتی الروحانیه شما بعنوان سه چهار شب بحیفا رفتید حال معلوم میشود... نور دیدهٴ روحانیان شوقی افندی و کنیزک جمال ابهی روح‌انگیز را ببوسید | O my spiritual sister! Thou didst go away to Haifa, supposedly for only three or four days. | BHKP_2#14x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BHKP_2.pdf] | BHK_2#14x [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/bwc/BK/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Shrines and Holy places | ||||||||
| AB01349 | 340 | Persian | ای یاران عبدالبهاء جناب غلامحسین زبان بستایش شما گشوده و حمد و ثنا گفته که | O ye friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Jináb-i-Ghulám-Ḥusayn hath loosed his tongue in praise of you, offering words of glorification and praise [3.5s] | TAH.239a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=243] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the state of prayer; dynamics of prayer | |||||||||
| ABU2526 | Words spoken on 1914-06-18 | 90 | If the fruit of the existence of man is not servitude at the threshold of the Almighty I declare by the living, self-subsistent God | DAS.1914-06-18 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=116] SW_v07#16 p.151 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @effort; striving, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @humility; meekness; lowliness | ||||||||||
| AB08605 | 90 | O thou sincere servant of the True One! Be thou a speaker of the truth and a skillful physician | DAS.1913-10-12 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=1] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | |||||||||||
| 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 [https://file.bahai.media/9/9b/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_14_Nr_01.pdf#page=9] | @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 | ||||||||||
| AB09337 | 80 | Persian | ای خداداد داد خدا باش و بخشش جمال ابهی تا رحمت عالم انسانی باشی و موهبت حضرت | O God-given one! Be thou a divine bestowal and a bounty of the Abhá Beauty, that thou mayest become a mercy unto the world of humanity and a gift from the Lord [3.5s] | YARP2.609 p.424 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-430.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @being a source of light; guidance | |||||||||
| AB07878 | 100 | Persian | ای امه الله تعریفی زایدالوصف از شما مینمایند که الحمد لله قبسه نار محبت اللهست | O handmaid of God! They offer praise of thee beyond all description, for, praised be God, thou art a spark from the fire of the love of God [3.5s] | PYK.291 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=308] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB02721 | 230 | mixed | ای رفیع حمد کن خدا را که پناه بکهف منیع بردی و در ظل امر بدیع درآمدی هر شریفی | O exalted one, render thanks unto God, for thou hast taken refuge in the impregnable Cave and hast entered beneath the shadow of His wondrous Cause [3.5s] | INBA72:101 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=104] | YQAZ.539-540 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/yaran-i-qazvin_munjadhiban-i-jamal-i-mubin.pdf] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @the power of words; of speech, @praise and encouragement | ||||||||
| ABU1798 | Words spoken on 1914-02-24 | 170 | Generosity, courage, faithfulness, truthfulness, etc., are all shining stars.... In this station, the souls are tested. | SW_v09#10 p.107 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_10] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @martyrs and martyrdom | ||||||||||
| AB01416 | 330 | Persian | ای منادی میثاق مکتوبی از آنجناب وارد و نفحات قدس از آن استشمام شد زیرا در | O Herald of the Covenant! A letter was received from thee, and divine fragrances were inhaled therefrom, for [3.5s] | INBA88:365 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=399] | BRL_DAK#0035 [http://www.bahai.org/r/917312932] MUH3.333-334 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=349] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @firmness in the Covenant, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||
| ABU0320 | Words spoken ca. 1900 | 710 | God has created all things in such a manner that they have always two conditions -- the condition of perfection and the condition of imperfection. | PN_1900_heh p061 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=61] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @literal interpretation, @need for an educator, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @Manifestation of God as mediator | ||||||||||
| ABU2264 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-14 | 110 | How important is the cleanliness of the body! It is well-expressed that cleanliness is godliness: because this body is the spiritual temple of the Almighty, it must be kept clean and pure. | DAS.1915-03-14 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=77] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @cleanliness and refinement, @chastity and purity | ||||||||||
| ABU2150 | Words to the Persian friends, spoken on 1912-04-01 | 120 | Persian | جمال مبارک ریشهٴ اوهام را کسند ایادی امر در اینظهور باسم و لقب و ارث نیستند | The Blessed Perfection has extirpated superstitions, root and branch. The Hands of the Cause in this dispensation are not heirs to any name or title; rather, they are sanctified souls | BDA1.019.06 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-19.html] | LOG#1079x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1079] DAS.1913-07-19 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=45] MHMD1.026 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=51] ABIE.087 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @priestcraft, @Hands of the Cause, @humility; meekness; lowliness | |||||||
| AB07663 | 110 | Persian | ای ورقه نوراء الحمد لله از سدره مقدسه روایدی و از ابر میثاق رحمت یافتی و در | O luminous leaf! Praise be to God, thou hast been nurtured by the sacred Lote-Tree and hast received the bounties of the cloud of the Covenant [3.5s] | MKT7.188b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-192.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @predictions and prophecies, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB01675 | 300 | Persian | ای بنده حق جمهور ناس منتظر موعودی خونخوارند و ولی ظالمی غدار مهدی ای خواهند | O Servant of God, (most) people are expecting a bloodthirsty Promised One, and a brutal oppressor as a protector. They want a promised one who, with shaft and spear | BRL_DAK#0062 [http://www.bahai.org/r/596253465] MKT1.407b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-406.html] MILAN.145 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/145.jpg] AKHA_107BE #02-03 p.41 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_120BE #01 p.j [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] MAS5.038 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-38.html] | DAS.1915-04-06 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=69] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @predictions and prophecies, @compassion; kindness, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @station of the Manifestation of God | ||||||||
| AB01760 | 300 | mixed | یا احباء الرحمن و اصفیائه قد تلئلا انوار التایید من ملکوت الابهی و تموج بحور | O beloved ones of the All-Merciful and His chosen ones! The lights of divine confirmation have shone forth from the Abhá Kingdom, and the oceans [3.5s] | INBA59:209 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=211] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @praise and encouragement, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @call to action | |||||||||
| AB04228 | 170 | Arabic | اللهم و رجائی و منائی و ملجای و مهربی و ملاذی انی ادعوک بقلبی و لسانی و روحی | O Lord, my Hope and my Desire, my Refuge and my Haven, my Shelter and my Abode! With heart and tongue and spirit do I beseech Thee [3.5s] | AYBY.394 #086 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-403.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB11288 | 40 | O my Lord! Confirm this revered personage, that he may attain the Essential Purpose; travel in these Seven Valleys; enter the silent chamber of realities and significances, and enter the Kingdom of Mysteries. Verily, Thou art the Confirmer, the Helper, the Kind. | PTF.076 [https://archive.org/details/portalstofreedom032582mbp/page/n78] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||||
| AB08001 | 100 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما بتاریخ ۱۴ شباط ۱۹۱۹ رسید الحمد لله دلالت بر روحانیت | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter dated February 14, 1919, hath been received. Praise be to God, it testifieth to spirituality [3.5s] | YARP2.667 p.449 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-455.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB04627 | 160 | mixed | الهی و ربی و رجائی ان هولاء اشجار فی حدیقه محبتک مغروسه فی شاطی انهار موهبتک | O my God, my Lord and my Hope! These are trees planted in the garden of Thy love, growing by the streams of Thy bounteous grace [3.5s] | AYBY.442 #176 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-451.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator | |||||||||
| AB02165 | 270 | mixed | یا ربی و یا الهی و یا نور الانوار و مرکز الاسرار و جاذب قلوب الابرار انی بقلب | O my Lord and my God, O Light of Lights and Center of Mysteries and Attractor of the hearts of the righteous! With a heart [3.5s] | MKT8.215 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-215.html] MJMJ3.105b [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA3/mma3-107.html] MMG2#342 p.380 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-383.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB08981 | 90 | mixed | هر نفسی بملکوت ابهی توجّه نماید و منقطعاً عمّا سوی اللّه سیر و سلوک فرماید | Whosoever turneth his face toward the Most Glorious Kingdom and, detached from all else save God, walketh the spiritual path [3.5s] | AVK4.025.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-29.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power of prayer | |||||||||
| AB11367 | 30 | Persian | ای شوقی حق از قرار تحریرات ارض مقصود در پناه حق محفوظ و مصونید و این سبب سرور | O Shoghi! According to the letters from the Holy Land, thou art sheltered and preserved beneath God's protection, and this is the cause of joy [3.5s] | AKHA_116BE #01-03 p.51x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for protection | |||||||||
| AB02567 | 240 | Persian | ای شیدائیان نیر آفاق و ثابتان بر میثاق جناب حیدر علی علیه بهاء الله نامه | O ye ardent admirers of the Luminary of the horizons and steadfast ones in the Covenant! His honor Ḥaydar-'Alí, upon him be the Glory of God, wrote [3.5s] | INBA87:431 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=433] INBA52:444 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=446] | BRL_DAK#0595 [https://www.bahai.org/r/269690947] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @Declaration; advent of the Bab | ||||||||
| AB06023 | 130 | Persian | ای اسفندیار پور گشتاسب رواین تن بود و آهنین کوهر باز از تیر خدنگ تهمتن رها | O Isfandiyar, son of Gushtasb! Though possessed of a body of bronze and a core of iron, thou wert delivered by the piercing arrow of the mighty Tahmutan [3.5s] | YARP2.142 p.159 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-165.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @stories; anecdotes | |||||||||
| AB01304 | 340 | Persian | ای بندگان الهی قریب غروبست و من از کثرت کار خسته و بی راحت و گرفتار با وجود | O servants of God! The hour is nigh unto sunset, and I, from the multitude of tasks, am weary and restless [3.5s] | INBA89:265b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=268] | MMK2#148 p.110 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-112.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | ||||||||
| ABU2086 | Words spoken at Riverside Park in New York, 1912-07-10 | 130 | In every moment you must thank God a hundred thousand times. Consider how today all the worldly people are deprived | PN_1912 p111 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=111] BSTW#351c [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=2] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization | ||||||||||
| AB11992 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده حق نامه ات رسید و معانی مفهوم شد خوشا به حال تو که بیاد حق مشغولی | O servant of God! Thy letter was received and its contents were understood. Blessed art thou that thou art occupied with the remembrance of God [3.5s] | TISH.305 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=300] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | |||||||||
| AB05451 | 150 | O thou who art attracted unto the Beauty of El-ABHA! Verily I read thy recent letter***, and noted its beautiful contents and meanings | TAB.259 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259] BWF.359-360x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @importance of prayer, @being a source of light; guidance, @thankfulness; gratitude, @humility; meekness; lowliness | |||||||||||
| AB10000 | 70 | Persian | ای شهاب ثاقب و ای هزبر غالب جناب آقا سید نصرالله نهایت رضایت را از اخلاق و | O resplendent star and triumphant lion! His honour Áqá Siyyid Nasru'lláh hath expressed utmost satisfaction with the character [3.5s] | INBA17:242 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=244] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB10497 | 60 | Persian | ای درویش تو را نام روشن و دل گلشن است و صون حمایت حضرت احدیت | O Darvish! Thy name is luminous, thy heart a verdant garden, and thou art under the protection of His Divine Unity [3.5s] | INBA55:432a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=434] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB11076 | 50 | Trk | یار حقیقی احمدک معنای لغوی سی حمد و ستایش ایدرم دیمکدر و ستایش و نیایش وجدانی | O true friend! The literal meaning of Ahmad is "I praise and glorify," and it signifieth praise and heartfelt devotion [3.5s] | MJT.094 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_alvah_munajat-hayeh_turki] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB01914 | 280 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان الحمد لله آنچه از قلم این آواره در دو سال سه سال پیش صادر | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Praise be to God that which streamed forth from the pen of this wanderer two or three years ago [3.5s] | MKT5.160 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-161.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @non-participation in politics, @obedience to and respect for government authority | |||||||||
| AB00975 | 400 | O ye believers of God and friends of Abdul-Baha! If ye knew how the heart of Abdul-Baha is soaring | SW_v01#13 p.001-002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_13] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @spiritual transformation, @unity in diversity, @firmness in the Covenant, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||||
| ABU1731 | Words spoken on 1912-10-05 in San Francisco | 180 | You are all welcome, most welcome. We have come here to be your guests. Do you accept a guest? | ECN.095+952 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=095] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @power of love | ||||||||||
| AB08978 | 90 | Persian | ای یاران عبدالبهاء علویت انسان در ادراک معانی کلیه است و قدرت در تحمل در | O friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The nobility of man lieth in his comprehension of universal meanings, and power in endurance [3.5s] | RAHA.280b [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/raha.pdf#page=284] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @personal instructions, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | |||||||||
| AB00760 | 450 | mixed | ای ثابت راسخ حوادث اینجا بر وجه سابقست هیئت مراجعت نمودند مسائل چندی بود | O thou who art firm and steadfast! The events here continue as before. The delegation hath returned, and there were several matters [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0820 [https://www.bahai.org/r/860070134] MMK5#020 p.012 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-15.html] QT108.073x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=73] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @non-participation in politics, @review of publications | |||||||||
| AB07769 | 760 | mixed | قد خلقت یا الهی حقیقه الانسان و انشئت یا محبوبی ذاتیه الاکوان لظهور آثار | The loved ones of God must, in accordance with the Divine Texts, show forth the utmost obedience and submission unto government [3.5s]... ...It is incumbent upon every one not to take any step without consulting the Spiritual Assembly | BRL_DAK#1236 [https://www.bahai.org/r/879378954] AVK3.270.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-274.html] | GPB.332x [http://www.bahai.org/r/172515055] BADM.021bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/270066223] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @review of publications, @justice and wrath of God | ||||||||
| AB07433 | 110 | Persian | ای زهراء زهراء یعنی درخشنده از اینجهت زهره را زهراء گویند زیرا ستاره روشنی | O Luminous One! O Luminous One! By this is meant "the resplendent," for thus is Venus designated the Luminous One, inasmuch as it is a radiant star [3.5s] | AKHA_135BE #11 p.226 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @naming of children; of individuals, @prayer for women, @call to action | |||||||||
| AB11818 | 330 | mixed | ای یاران الهی و دوستان حقیقی انسان که فی الحقیقه عنوان کتاب مبین امکان | O divine friends and true companions! Man is, in truth, the preamble of the manifest Book of Creation [3.5s] | TISH.038-039 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=33] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @praise and encouragement, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB01988 | 280 | Arabic | ایا نفحات الله مری معطره لتلک الرمس الانور و ایا نسمات الله هبی معنبره الی | May the fragrances of God waft sweetly upon that luminous sepulchre, and may the breezes of God blow perfumed unto it [3.5s] | ABDA.313-314 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=321] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @martyrs and martyrdom, @eulogies; reminiscences, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB06967 | 120 | mixed | ای واله الهی طالبان حق و مشتاقان جمال مطلق سطوع شمس حقیقت را در مشرق آفاق و | O lovers of God, seekers of truth and yearners for the Absolute Beauty! The dawning of the Sun of Truth in the eastern horizons [3.5s] | MMK6#285 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=210] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Manifestation of God as sun, @Word of God and human limitations | |||||||||
| AB03212 | 210 | Persian | ای هائی من چندیست که از هاای هوای بگوش نرسیده و از گلزار محبتش بوای نیامده | O my Ha'i! For some time no breeze from Thy paradise hath reached mine ear, nor hath any fragrance wafted from the garden of Thy love [3.5s] | MKT9.212 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=106] TABN.091 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=91] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power of prayer, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @courtesy; culture [adab], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB04759 | 160 | mixed | ای دو ورقه مقربه درگاه کبریا دو شاهد صادق آگاه گواهند که کنیز مقرب درگاه خدا | O ye two leaves near the divine threshold, two truthful and aware witnesses testify that the handmaiden near the threshold of God [3.5s] | INBA84:491 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=494] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love of God, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB10274 | 70 | Persian | ای دلبر آفاق بنده مشتاقت را نصيبی از اشراق ده روح را پر فتوح کن و دل را از بند آب و گل | O Beloved of all horizons! Grant unto Thy yearning servant a portion of Thy dawning splendor. Make his spirit abundant with victories, and free the heart from bondage to water and clay [3.5s] | MMK3#003 p.001x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-3.html] MMG2#397 p.444x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-447.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB12016 | 50 | Persian | امّا وسائل وصول بحسن خاتمه این ست که باید از عجب و کبر احتراز | As to the means of attaining unto a goodly end, one must shun pride and vainglory [3.5s] | MAS5.271x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-271.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @prayers (general or uncategorized) | |||||||||
| AB10928 | 50 | Persian | ای شیرین شکرین باش و مانند انگبین یعنی حلاوت محبت الله و لذت معرفت الله را | Be thou sweet as sugar and like unto honey, embodying the sweetness of the love of God and the delight of divine knowledge [3.5s] | YARP2.651 p.442 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-448.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB10980 | 50 | Persian | ای واقف آثار قدرت پروردگار در بیشه محبت جمال یزدان شیر ژیان | O thou who art aware of the signs of the Lord's power, thou lion in the forest of the love of the divine Beloved [3.5s] | INBA55:143 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=145] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB09945 | 70 | Persian | ای خوشخو شکفته رو باش و از هر سو بوی خوش جانان بگیر دیده بحضرت بی نیاز بگشا | O thou of goodly nature, be radiant of countenance, and from every direction inhale the sweet fragrance of the Beloved. Open thine eyes unto the presence of the Self-Sufficient Lord [3.5s] | YARP2.358 p.287 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-293.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love and unity | |||||||||
| AB11282 | 40 | O thou who art athirst for the Water of Life! This manifest book is the fountainhead of the Water of Life Eternal. | SW_v14#05 p.124 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5] BSTW#044 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=57] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @living waters; water of life, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @study; deepening | |||||||||||
| AB08081 | 100 | Persian | ای دو ورقهٌ مبارکه چون آن دوورقه از شجرهٌ مبارکه روئیده ورشحات سحاب | O ye two blessed leaves! Even as these two leaves have sprung forth from the sacred Tree, and the dewdrops of the clouds [3.5s] | INBA84:417b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=420] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @living waters; water of life | |||||||||
| ABU2349 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-02 | 100 | The individuals of the world of humanity are in different degrees. They are like unto candlesticks.... Similarly there are some enkindled souls whose very presence in a meeting changes its atmosphere | DAS.1915-05-02 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=37] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @light and darkness, @the state of enkindlement in teaching, @being a source of light; guidance, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | ||||||||||
| ABU2179 | Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias | 120 | No matter how small a room is, and how simply it is furnished, when a candle is ignited therein... The heart must of necessity be spiritual. A tree must be fruitful; it may be very tall, very verdant | DAS.1914-06-01 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=69] SW_v07#16 p.151x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @light and darkness, @bringing forth results; fruit, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | ||||||||||
| AB04591 | 170 | Arabic | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | یا من طفح قلبه بمحبه الله انی اخاطبک من هذه البقعه المبارکه حتی یفرح قلبک | O thou whose heart overfloweth with love for the Lord! I address thee from this consecrated spot, to gladden thy bosom with mine epistle | MNMK#060 p.140 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-138.html] MMK1#009 p.023 [https://www.bahai.org/r/223305939] DSDS.109 | SWAB#009 [http://www.bahai.org/r/241044390] COC#1174x | R. Peterson [track 12] [https://9starmedia.com/rose-marie-peterson-wave] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @law of Huququ'llah, @thankfulness; gratitude, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | ||||||
| AB07589 | 110 | Persian | ای موقن بایات الله در جمع دوستان چون شمع برافروز و حجبات اهل امکانرا بشعله | O thou who art steadfast in the signs of God! Be thou as a candle amidst the gathering of friends, and with thy flame consume the veils of the people of limitation [3.5s] | MKT5.033a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-34.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @knowledge; recognition of God, @symbolism of color and light | |||||||||
| ABU0665 | The Perfect Human Sentiments and Virtues: Words spoken on 1911-11-23 in Paris | 440 | Persian | Paris Talks | شما باید بسیار مسرور باشید و شکر کنید که در چنین | You should all be very happy and thankful to God for the great privilege that is yours. This is purely a spiritual meeting! | AVK4.478.08x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-482.html] KHAB.195 (205) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.201 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-203.html] | PT#36 p.113 [http://www.bahai.org/r/341337825] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @human reality created in the image of God, @man's distinction from the animal, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual transformation, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | ||||||
| AB00530 | 540 | Persian | ای ابناء و بنات ملکوت الحمد لله بفیض نامتناهی الهی آفاق باهتزاز آمده و شرق و | O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! Praise be to God! The infinite bounty... O ye beloved of ‘Abdu'l-Baha! The beloved of God and the maidservants of the Merciful intend to found a Mashrak-el-Azkar | MMK3#269 p.193 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-195.html] NJB_v01#19a p.017-019 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_19] | SW_v01#04 p.008-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_4] SW_v06#17 p.140x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_17] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @unity; oneness of humanity, @words vs deeds, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @exhortations and counsels, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action | ||||||||
| AB06999 | 120 | Persian | ای یار مهربان من حضرت هرمز را مثلث نامند و گویند که نبوت و حکمت و نعمت را با | O my kind friend! They call the revered Hormuz a trinity, and declare that prophethood, wisdom and bounty are associated with [3.5s] | ANDA#60 p.30 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-60-hi-hi] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Hermes; Balinus, @call to action | |||||||||
| AB04816 | 160 | mixed | ای متمسک بذیل مبارک رب جلیل در فجر بقا نیر اعظم جمال قدم بر ملکوت عالم اشراق | O thou who clingest to the hem of the blessed and glorious Lord! At the dawn of eternity did the Most Great Orb of the Ancient Beauty shed its radiance upon the Kingdom [3.5s] | MMK3#256 p.183x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-185.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | |||||||||
| AB02838 | 230 | mixed | یا من انجذب بنفحات الله قد تلوت ایات شکرک لله علی ما هداک و نجاک و اجاب دعائک | O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of God! I have recited verses of thanksgiving unto God for having guided thee, delivered thee, and answered thy prayer [3.5s] | INBA87:083b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=85] INBA52:082b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=84] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @prayer for healing | |||||||||
| AB08401 | 100 | Persian | سعادت در علم است و علم در تقوی و تقوی در انقطاع و تنفر از جمیع زخارف دنیا | Happiness lieth in knowledge, and knowledge in piety, and piety in detachment and contempt for all the vanities of this world | AHB.125BE #11-12 p.315 AHB.134BE #05-06 p.69 PYB#108-109 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/108.PDF#page=9] | ADMS#162 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab08401/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | ||||||||
| AB12131 | 420 | Persian | ای احبای الهی ای مظاهر الطاف و عنایات جمال ابهی آن نیر نورانی از افق تنزیه | O ye beloved of God! O ye manifestations of divine favors and bounties of the Most Glorious Beauty! That luminous Orb shone forth from the horizon of sanctity [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0863 [https://www.bahai.org/r/656981904] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB12468 | 120 | Persian | ای جمع نورانی مستر و مسیس باشی حاضر ارض مقدس شدند و در ستایش احبای هیلبرون | O assemblage of light! Mr. and Mrs. Bosch came to the Holy Land and praised the friends of Heilbronn. They said these enlightened souls are filled with heavenly sentiments | BBBD.618-619 | BBBD.620 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @growth of the Cause, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||
| AB05832 | 140 | Persian | ای ناظر بملکوت الهی در این عصر روحانی و قرن رحمانی که ذرات وجود در ممالک غیب | O thou who gazest upon the Kingdom of God! In this spiritual age and this merciful century, wherein the atoms of existence in the unseen realms [3.5s] | PYB#249 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/249.PDF#page=4] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @being a source of light; guidance, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB05238 | 150 | mixed | خداوند مجيد در قرآن کريم می‌فرمايد و کلّاً نمدّ هؤلآء و هؤلآء من عطآء ربّک يعنی عطای پروردگار | The glorious Lord declareth in the Noble Qur'án: "Unto each and all, both these and those, do We extend from the bounties of thy Lord"—which signifieth divine bounty [3.5s] | MMK6#248x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=183] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB09197 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده الهی ابر رحمت یزدان بر تو سایه انداخت و در و گهر بر تو نثار نمود و | O servant of God! The cloud of divine mercy hath cast its shadow upon thee and scattered pearls and gems upon thee [3.5s] | INBA13:311b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=156] | PYB#244 p.03 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/244.PDF#page=3] YARP2.406 p.312 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-318.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | ||||||||
| ABU1237 | Words spoken on 1920-02-15 | 260 | You must think now of spiritual affairs. Try to enlighten the morals and try to spread | SW_v11#12 p.224-225 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_12] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God | ||||||||||
| AB07995 | 100 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان در جمیع احیان در ظل عنایت جمال قدم بوده و هستید از حق | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! At all times thou hast been, and shalt ever remain, beneath the sheltering care of the Ancient Beauty [3.5s] | MKT5.167a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-168.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @firmness in the Covenant, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB07542 | 110 | Persian | ای مستبشر بالطاف یزدانی قومی بر آنند که سبب نجات اقرار بوحدانیت الهیست و حزبی | O thou who art gladdened by divine bounties! Some believe that salvation's cause is the confession of God's oneness, while others [3.5s] | MMK2#196 p.140 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-142.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @firmness in the Covenant, @spiritual transformation, @goodly deeds; actions | |||||||||
| AB07947 | 100 | Persian | ای بنده جمال ابهی ملاحظه فرما که چه قدر خوش بخت و فرزانه بودی که ترا | O servant of the Abhá Beauty! Consider how fortunate and wise thou hast been [3.5s] | AYBY.387 #069 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-396.html] YQAZ.261b [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/yaran-i-qazvin_munjadhiban-i-jamal-i-mubin.pdf] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB05156 | 150 | Persian | ای جمال امروز روزیست که باید جمال خویش را ثابت نماای و با کمال درپیوندی تا | O Beauty! This is the day wherein thou must needs prove thine own comeliness and unite with perfection [3.5s] | MMK5#237 p.187 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-190.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB10613 | 60 | Persian | ای موقن بایات الله علیک بهاء الله چند جواب مرقوم شد لهذا حال اختصار میشود | O thou who art assured of the verses of God! Upon thee be the Glory of God! Several replies have already been written, therefore this one shall be brief [3.5s] | MKT6.018a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-18.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @exhortations and counsels | |||||||||
| ABU2112 | 130 | I desire for you distinction. The Bahais must be distinguished from others of humanity. But this distinction must not | SW_v13#05 p.117 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_5] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @excellence; distinction, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||||
| AB06368 | 130 | mixed | ای ناطق بذکر الهی در قرآن کتاب الهی از خصائص اهل توحید کظم غیظ بیان فرموده | O thou who speaketh in remembrance of God! In the Quran, the Divine Book, the suppression of anger is mentioned as among the distinctive qualities of the people of unity [3.5s] | INBA88:348b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=382] | MMK6#078 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=60] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | ||||||||
| AB06914 | 120 | Persian | ای منسوب من ادرک لقاء ربه فی الملکوت الاعلی جناب آقا محمد حسن تفصیل تشیع از | O thou who art associated with him who hath attained unto the presence of his Lord in the Supreme Kingdom, Jinab-i-Aqa Muhammad Hasan, regarding the exposition of Shi'ism [3.5s] | AKHA_121BE #06 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] ANDA#22 p.47 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-22] ANDA#49 p.59 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-49] YIA.413a [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=409] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @eulogies; reminiscences, @recompense; reward for belief; right action | |||||||||
| AB04103 | 180 | mixed | ای نهال جویبار رضا آن حدیقه غلبا و روضه رضوی و فردوس مزین رضاء بملکوت ابهی | O sapling beside the stream of contentment, thou who art that verdant garden and celestial meadow, that paradise adorned with the glory of the Abhá Kingdom [3.5s] | BSHN.140.174 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-181.html] BSHN.144.174 MHT2.073 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @eulogies; reminiscences, @consolation and comfort, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB08111 | 100 | Persian | ای سالک راه خدا جمعی شب و روز بخیال خویش سلوک نمودند و بجز شکوک ثمری ندیدند و | O seeker of the path of God! A multitude, both night and day, pursued their own fancies in their spiritual quest, yet reaped naught but doubts [3.5s] | LMA2.447 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/360.pdf#page=455] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @empty learning; false spirituality, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB05825 | 140 | Persian | ای ناطق بثنای رحمان در محافل پر روح و ریحان خوشا بحال تو چون گل و ریحان از | O thou who speaketh the praise of the All-Merciful in gatherings filled with spirit and sweet fragrance! Blessed art thou, like unto the rose and sweet basil [3.5s] | MMK3#234 p.168 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-170.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB11192 | 40 | mixed | هدايت الهيّه از متعلّقات فضل است نه عدل، يهدی من يشآء و يضلّ من يشآء انّک لا تهدی من احببت | Divine guidance pertaineth unto grace, not justice - "He guideth whom He willeth, and causeth to stray whom He willeth." Verily, thou canst not guide him whom thou lovest [3.5s] | MMK6#375x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=275] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power of faith; power of the spirit | |||||||||
| ABU1724 | 180 | Praise be to God that the sun of reality of religion hath dawned. From all parts of the world | ADP.035-036 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @firmness in the Covenant, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||||
| ABU1652 | Words to Isabel Fraser, spoken on 1913-09-24 | 190 | We must not be attached to anything in the world. It is not worth one thought. We must not | SW_v08#06 p.063-064 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_6] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://file.bahai.media/c/c7/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_13_Nr_10.pdf#page=7] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transcending the material condition, @spiritual transformation, @nearness to God | ||||||||||
| AB02541 | 240 | mixed | ای ثابت بر عهد و پیمان مکتوب اخیر بتاریخ بیست و ششم ربیع ثانی واصل و بر مضمون | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy recent letter, dated the twenty-sixth of Rabi'u'th-Thani, hath been received, and its contents [3.5s] | MMK2#125 p.096 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-98.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation, @transcending the material condition, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB05247 | 150 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای کنیز عزیز الهی نامه ات ملاحظه گردید و بر مضمون اطلاع حاصل شد دستورالعمل | O thou dear handmaid of God! Thy letter hath been received and its contents noted. Thou didst ask for a rule whereby to guide thy life. | MMK1#010 p.024 [https://www.bahai.org/r/821890235] | SWAB#010 [http://www.bahai.org/r/028009310] TAB.098-099 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA98] | jeph.ilosopher [https://jeph.bandcamp.com/track/love-thou] Strong Steep [https://strongsteep.bandcamp.com/track/be-thou-a-summoner-to-love] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @the power of words; of speech, @importance of prayer, @effort; striving, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love of God | ||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=49] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | ||||||||||
| AB09946 | 70 | Persian | ای دختر آسمانی کنیزان الهی که توجه بملکوت ابهی دارند انها آسمانیند نه زمینی | O heavenly daughter! The handmaidens of God who are turned towards the Abhá Kingdom are celestial, not earthly [3.5s] | MMK2#355 p.255 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-257.html] PPAR.194 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=196] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @love of God | |||||||||
| ABU2623 | Farewell words to the friends, spoken on 1913-06-08 | 80 | I love the believers of Paris, not the walls and the houses. The walls do not protect one from his ego. One must become the embodiment of divine love. | DAS.1913-06-08 | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @love and unity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | ||||||||||
| AB08276 | 100 | mixed | ای نفس موقنه حضرت سیدالساجدین لیلا و نهارا در رکوع و سجود و بمناجات با سلطان | O assured soul! Like unto the revered Prince of Worshippers, remain thou, by night and by day, in a state of bowing and prostration, communing with the Sovereign Lord [3.5s] | ANDA#78 p.19 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-78] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB00476 | Some Answered Questions #015 True Felicity | 570 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | شرافت و علویت هر کائنی از موجودات بامری مشروط و بکیفیتی مربوط | The honour and exaltation of every existing thing is contingent upon certain causes and conditions. | MFD#15 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-61.html] OOL.C022.15 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-15-fa] | SAQ#15 [http://www.bahai.org/r/882062333] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||
| AB10927 | 50 | Trk | ای شیرعلی اصلان حیدر کراردر صفدر اشراردر اهل غفلت گروه طوشقاندر ارسلان آسا | O Shir-'Ali! Thou art a Haydar in steadfastness, a Safdar among the wicked ones. Amidst the heedless multitudes thou art lion-like [3.5s] | MJT.069 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_alvah_munajat-hayeh_turki] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @courage | |||||||||
| AB00018 | Tafsir-i-Hadith هل رأیت رجلاً (Commentary on the Tradition "Dost thou see a man") | 4180 | Arabic | Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; On the Meanings of the Terms 'Angels' and 'Jinn' | الحمد لمن تعالی بجوهر ذاته عن وصف الممکنات و تقدس بساذج حقیقته من نعت | Praise be unto Him Who, in the essence of His Being, is exalted above all description of contingent things and Who, in the reality of His Nature, is sanctified from every attribute [3.5s]... ...O thou who hast turned thy face towards the court of eternity, and art even as a brand afire with the flames of the Burning Bush! Concerning thy question about the term “angels”… And now concerning thy question about the 'Jinn', know thou that God - exalted be He - hath created man from four elements: fire, air, water and earth | INBA56:090 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v056/?page=93] INBA55:077x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=79] | BRL_DAK#0649 [https://www.bahai.org/r/023253147] AVK2.262x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-263.html] AVK2.145.08x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-146.html] AVK2.162.15x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-163.html] BMT.234 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/258.pdf#page=237] MAS2.043-047x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-44.html] | BLO_sazedj#20x [https://bahai-library.com/sazedj_provisional_translations] ADMS#050bx [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-commentary-angels-jinn/] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @the human soul, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @knowledge; recognition of God | |||||
| AB02952 | 220 | Persian | مثل انسان مثل شجر است و اشجار متنوّع الاثمار ، شجره طيّبه البتّه بايد ثمره جنيّه ببار آرد تا آنکه هويّت و ماهيّتش | Man is even as a tree, and trees yield diverse fruits; verily, a goodly tree must needs bring forth delectable fruit that its true nature [3.5s] | MMK3#169 p.119x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-121.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @law of pilgrimage, @bringing forth results; fruit, @love and unity | |||||||||
| AB03512 | 200 | Persian | ای یاران پارسی عبدالبهاء نامه ای که بواسطه حضرت حیدر قبل علی علیه بهاء الله | O Persian friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The letter which through His Honour Haydar-'Alí, upon him be the glory of Bahá'u'lláh [3.5s] | YARP2.165 p.173 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-179.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | |||||||||
| AB11301 | 40 | ...Turn thy face sincerely toward God; be severed from all save God; be ablaze with the fire of the love of God | SW_v08#04 p.048 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_4] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @consolation and comfort, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||||
| AB05668 | 140 | Persian | ای دو متوجه الی الله ایامی میگذرد آلامی در گذر است هر محنتی در سبیل حضرت | O ye two who are turned towards God! Days pass by, afflictions fade away, and every tribulation is in the path of the Lord [3.5s] | YBN.038a [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=43] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @consolation and comfort, @knowledge; recognition of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB04346 | 170 | Persian | اگر خانه ناسوتی ويران گشت محزون مباش قصر ملکوتی معمور باد ای مرغ حقيقت اگر آشيان خاکی خراب گرديد | If thy earthly habitation be laid waste, grieve thou not; may thy celestial mansion flourish! O bird of reality, if thy dusty nest be destroyed [3.5s] | MMK3#073 p.047x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-49.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @consolation and comfort, @call to action, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @growth of the Cause | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| ABU0361 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 660 | Every deed of life is a thought expressing itself in action; it is the actual mirror of the man within. The act sets up a force which is the spirit of the deed. | AELT.143-148 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=190] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @composure; tranquillity; serenity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @spiritual transformation, @love of God, @moderation; frugality; simplicity | ||||||||||
| AB09161 | 80 | Persian | ای امه الله ایت محبت الله شو و نفحه از گلشن ابهی بمشام آر تا حیات ابدیه یابی | O handmaid of God! Become a sign of the love of God and inhale the fragrances from the Abhá Rose-Garden, that thou mayest attain unto life eternal [3.5s] | MKT7.253a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-257.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @chastity and purity, @spiritual transformation, @being a source of light; guidance | |||||||||
| ABU0660 | Good Ideas Must Be Carried into Action: Words spoken on 1911-11-08 in Paris | 440 | Persian | Paris Talks | جمیع ملل عالم از حیثیت اقوال کاملند جمیع ذکر میکنند که محب خیرند جمیع میگویند صدق | All over the world one hears beautiful sayings extolled and noble precepts admired. All men say they love what is good… Strive, that your actions day by day may be beautiful prayers | BRL_DAK#1228 [https://www.bahai.org/r/722155303] AMK.246-247 DWNP_v6#05 p.002 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] KHF.284 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=287] KHAB.137 (148) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.127 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-129.html] KHTP.086 NJB_v02#14-16 p.018 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | PT#26 p.076 [http://www.bahai.org/r/171052107] | Gonçalo & Nabil [https://youtu.be/oOtEGlEBl54] J. Crone [https://youtu.be/hifQ2ja1FWo] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @words vs deeds, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||
| AB05578 | 140 | Persian | ای بنده صادق جمال ابهی در این خاکدان فانی کاری بکن که مظهر ایت رحمانی گردی و | O faithful servant of the Abhá Beauty! In this earthly dust-heap of mortality, act in such wise that thou mayest become a manifestation of divine signs [3.5s] | MMK2#259 p.186 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-188.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| AB10600 | 290 | mixed | ای منادی حق نامه ثانی بتاریخ ۲۶ ذیقعده سنه ۱۳۲۶ ملاحظه شد در خصوص ارسال معلم | O herald of truth! The second letter, dated 26 Dhi'l-Qa'dah 1326, was reviewed regarding the dispatch of a teacher [3.5s] | INBA85:409 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=411] | BRL_DAK#0205 [http://www.bahai.org/r/668113382] AVK2.081.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-82.html] YIA.302-303 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=298] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance | ||||||||
| AB10391 | 60 | Persian | ای بنده الهی لطف خداوندی باش و سبب آسایش عالم آفرینش مهرجوی شو و خوشخوی و | O servant of God, be thou a divine bounty and a source of tranquility unto all creation. Be thou loving in nature and of goodly character [3.5s] | MMK2#146 p.109 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-111.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | |||||||||
| ABU3601 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 10 | Our Actions reveal what we are, no matter what the tongue speaks. | TDLA.005 [https://archive.org/stream/tendaysinlighta00illgoog#page/n11/mode/2up] BLO_PN#104 [https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | ||||||||||
| AB03723 | 190 | Persian | ای طالب حقیقت نامه ای که بواسطه جناب مستر مکنات مرقوم نموده بودی رسید جناب | O thou seeker of Truth! The letter which thou hast written through Mr. MacNutt | NJB_v01#19 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_19] | SW_v01#19 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_19] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @call to action, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @unity; oneness of humanity, @The Holy Spirit, @goodly deeds; actions, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | ||||||||
| AB01587 | 310 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای سمندر نار موقده در سدره سیناء جمال مبارک روحی و ذاتی و کینونتی لارقائه | O phoenix of that immortal flame kindled in the sacred Tree! Baha'u'llah | MKT9.141 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=71] MMK1#204 p.242 [https://www.bahai.org/r/832361088] AYBY.334 #017 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-343.html] PYB#186 p.04 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/186.PDF#page=4] KHSH09.006 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_9] ASAM.000b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/578.pdf#page=5] | SWAB#204 [http://www.bahai.org/r/199246822] BWF.354-355 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] SW_v14#12 p.357-358 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_12] DWN_v1#09 p.002 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] | Ahdieh [https://ahdieh.bandcamp.com/track/--19] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @call to action, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||
| AB06263 | 130 | mixed | فو اللّه الّذی لا اله الّا هو الیوم خدمتی بامر الله اعظم از تخلّق باخلاق نیست | By God, besides Whom there is no other God! Today there is no service to the Cause of God greater than the acquisition of divine qualities [3.5s] | AVK3.004.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-8.html] AVK3.151.06x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-155.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @business; financial; property matters, @justice and mercy, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB04483 | 170 | mixed | ای ورقه طیبه منجذبه بنفحات الله آنچه بلسان گفتی و بر اوراق شرح نمودی و در | O pure leaf, drawn by the fragrances of God! That which thou hast uttered with thy tongue and written upon the pages [3.5s] | INBA16:118 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=120] | MKT7.150 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-154.html] PYK.292 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=309] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @business; financial; property matters, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||
| AB06238 | 130 | mixed | ای شمع افروخته محبت الله در این عالم ترابی و خاکدان فانی جهدی کن ایت باهره | O resplendent lamp of the love of God! In this earthly world and perishable realm, strive with all thy might [3.5s] | MKT8.116b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-116.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @being a source of light; guidance, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| ABU0259 | Address to the Baha'is at MacNutt home in New York, 1912-06-16 | 800 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | This is a splendid gathering, a meeting of the maidservants of the Merciful and the beloved of God | LOG#1377x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1377] PUP#070 (p.194-197) [http://www.bahai.org/r/246588372] SW_v03#10 p.017-019 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @astrology and numerology, @development of capacity and readiness, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | |||||||||
| AB04806 | 160 | Persian | ای کنیز عزیز الهی امیدم از پروردگار چنانست که خواهش و آرزوی تو مستجاب شود از | O thou dear maidservant of God! I hope, through the Lord, that thy | MMK5#047 p.045 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-48.html] | SW_v01#16 p.002-003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_16] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | ||||||||
| AB10879 | 50 | Persian | ای تشنه پر عطش احرام کعبهٌ مقصود بربند وقصد حل وحرم | O thou who art athirst! Don thy pilgrim's garb for the Ka'bah of thy heart's desire and make thy way unto its sacred precincts [3.5s] | INBA84:457b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=460] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||||
| AB10360 | 60 | Persian | ای امه الله در این ظهور اعظم مردی و دلیری بظهور آثار محبت الله و اشراق انوار | O handmaid of God! In this Most Great Dispensation, manifest thy valor and courage through the revelation of the signs of God's love and the radiance of His lights [3.5s] | HDQI.259 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-264.html] ANDA#32 p.05 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-32] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||||
| AB10339 | 60 | mixed | ای اردشیر جهانشیر نامه قرائت گردید الحمد لله از نفوسی محسوبی که میفرماید هر | O Ardeshir Jahanshir, thy letter was perused. Praise be to God that thou art accounted among those souls who [3.5s] | ALPA.018a YARP2.021 p.077 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-83.html] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||||
| 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 [https://file.bahai.media/c/c7/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_13_Nr_10.pdf#page=7] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] PN_unsorted p076 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=76] TDLA.014 [https://archive.org/stream/tendaysinlighta00illgoog#page/n20/mode/2up] BLO_PN#104 [https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka] | @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | ||||||||||
| AB12822 | 100 | Persian | ای بنده بهاء حمد کن خدا را که ببقعه نوراء رسیدی و نفحات قدس از تربت مبارکه استشمام نمودی | BRL_DAK#1165 [https://www.bahai.org/r/140903321] | @visitation Tablets, @Shrines and Holy places, @spiritual warfare; struggle, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love of God | ||||||||||
| AB12565 | 100 | mixed | ای مخلص در امرالله آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید فی الحقیقه مدتی بود | O sincere servant of the Cause of God! That which thou hadst written was perused. In truth, it hath been some time [3.5s] | INBA85:230a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=232] | @visitation Tablets, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB05797 | 140 | mixed | ای منادی حق مکتوب جدید در یوم عید مسیحیان و وجد وطرب عیسویان واصل گردید دلیل | O Herald of Truth! The new letter arrived on the Christians' feast day, amidst the joy and exultation of the followers of Christ [3.5s] | PYK.259 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=276] | @visitation Tablets, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @rejection, opposition and persecution | |||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=42] | @veiling [hijab], @Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn] | ||||||||||
| ABU1837 | 160 | Persian | در این دور حجاب محکمتر از سابق میباشد در دوره اسلام حجاب چنان شده بود | In this Dispensation the veil hath grown more impenetrable than in former times. During the Islamic Dispensation the veil had become such [3.5s] | AVK3.340.15x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-344.html] | @veiling [hijab], @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @critique of Western values; culture | |||||||||
| AB03615 | 190 | mixed | ای امه الله در این کور عظیم و دور بدیع اماای مبعوث شدند که ایات توحید بودند و | In this great Cycle and wondrous Dispensation some women have been raised up who were the emblems of unity and ensigns of oneness | INBA17:039 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=41] | COMP_WOMENP#096 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/compilation_women_originals.pdf] MKT7.052 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-56.html] | BRL_WOMEN#096 [http://www.bahai.org/r/330202663] COC#2187 | @veiling [hijab], @service to others; to the Cause of God, @role and station of women | |||||||
| AB04972 | 160 | Persian | یا امه الله نامه که بحضرت ورقه العلیاء مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه شد در مسئله | O handmaid of God! The letter which thou didst address to the Most Exalted Leaf hath been perused. As to the matter [3.5s] | AYBY.438 #167 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-447.html] | @veiling [hijab], @role and station of women, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | |||||||||
| ABU2347 | Words spoken on 1915-08-06 in Haifa | 100 | Persian | ولکن بعضی نفوس مثل عناکب می مانند، هر چه پرده اش را بدری باز فوراً می بافد. حضرت اعلی روحی فداه | But certain souls are like unto spiders: howsoever thou rendest their veil, they do straightway weave it anew [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-08-06 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @veiling [hijab], @rejection, opposition and persecution | ||||||||
| AB03342 | 200 | Persian | ای بنده آستان الهی نامه شما رسید سوال از ستر و حجاب نموده بودید حال باید ستر | O servant at the threshold of God! Your letter was received. You had inquired about the veil and covering. Now the covering [3.5s] | TAH.325 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=329] | @veiling [hijab], @prayer for forgiveness | |||||||||
| AB06692 | 150 | mixed | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامهٴ مفصّل شما رسید و خبر صحّت و سلامت و ثبوت و استقامت... ای ثابت بر پیمان مکتوب مفصل شما که بحسب مثل مشهور تفسیر کشاف | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy detailed letter hath been received, bringing the news of thy health, well-being and unwavering constancy... O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy comprehensive letter, which according to the well-known adage is like the Kashsháf commentary [3.5s] | YIA.380-381x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=376] AADA.143-144x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/831.pdf#page=150] | @veiling [hijab], @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @the power of example, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/uhj_share_time_god] | @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @work as worship, @service to others; to the Cause of God | ||||||||
| AB05669 | 140 | mixed | ای دو مشتاق جمال الهی هر انسان در این جهان بکاری مشغول و بامری مالوف یکی در | O ye who long for the divine countenance! Every soul in this world is occupied with some pursuit and engaged in some endeavour. One is [3.5s] | BSHN.140.446 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-453.html] BSHN.144.440 MHT1b.191 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=191] | @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| ABU0510 | Words to some young Bahá’ís, spoken on 1915-05-02 | 530 | All the Bahá'í children must learn a trade or manual profession. This must be aside from their literary education... Do not be satisfied with a superficial smattering of a language | DAS.1915-05-02 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=37] | @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @education of children; moral education, @excellence; distinction, @high station of learning | ||||||||||
| AB11395 | 30 | Persian | هر روز از صبح تا ظهر درس بخواند تا خواندن و نوشتن آموزد و از ظهر تا قریب غروب | ...He must study every day from morning till noon, so that he may learn how to read and write. From noon till about sunset he should acquire a craft | MJTB.112ax [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] | COC#0013x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_arts_crafts#I13] | @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @praise and encouragement, @wisdom [hikmat], @education of children; moral education | ||||||||
| ABU0481 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20 | 550 | Persian | در ایام لکورغه اولاد خود را بقانون و ترتیب مخصوصی تربیت می‌کردند اولاً در وقت ازدواج | Lycurgus was well-versed in laws and he wished to treat his subjects justly. As he looked over the Spartans, he observed that they were divided into three classes… One day in the company of the Governor | BDA2.149-150x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-157.html] | DAS.1913-02-19 MHMD2.187-188x STAB#098x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=98] | @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @monasticism; asceticism, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-49.html] | MHMD2.048 | @universality of the Cause, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||
| AB00020 | Lawh-i-Dr Forel (Tablet to Dr Forel) | 3770 | Persian | Tablet to Auguste Forel | Tablet to Auguste Forel | ای شخص محترم مفتون حقیقت نامه شما که ۲۸ جولای ۱۹۲۱ مورخ بود رسید مضامین خوشی | O revered personage, lover of truth! Thy letter dated July 28th, 1921, hath been | BRL_LAFP [http://www.bahai.org/r/596452312] MKT3.474 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-474.html] MNMK#144 p.255 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-253.html] AKHA_106BE #06 p.02x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] PYM.315 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-315.html] MJDF.002 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=2] KHF.018 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=21] KHAB.011 (022) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.015 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-17.html] NJB_v14#01 p.032 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_1] NJB_v14#02 p.064 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] OOL.C010 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw10-fa] VUJUD.033-040 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | TAGF [http://www.bahai.org/r/690115704] BWF.336-348x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] SW_v14#04 p.101-109 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_4] SW_v13#08 p.195+197-202 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_8] ABCC.449x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=479] VUJUDE.043-056 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] | MMAH.243 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1504.pdf#page=255] | @universality of the Cause, @The Holy Spirit, @divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @proofs for the existence of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @names and attributes of God | ||||
| ABU0763 | Words to a vistor, spoken on 1913-04-20 | 390 | Well said. You have brought up a good point.... The Bahá'í movement is not an organization. You can never organize the Bahá'í Cause.... The Bahá'í Revelation is the spirit of this age. | DAS.1913-04-20 SW_v05#05 p.067x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_5] SW_v06#15 p.118x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_15] | @universality of the Cause, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @words vs deeds, @executive government; power of execution, @oneness; unity of religion, @The Holy Spirit | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| AB05740 | 140 | Persian | ای عبدالبهاء گویند که انسان بالفطره در امور مهمه از شریک و سهیم گریزانست و از | O 'Abdu'l-Bahá! They say that man, by his very nature, shrinketh from partnership and sharing in matters of great moment, and from [3.5s] | SFI07.019a [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_07.pdf#page=19] | @universality of the Cause | |||||||||
| ABU2101 | Words spoken on 1912-09-06 in Montreal | 130 | Man has set up imaginary lines, only to have these become causes of strife. A river is made a boundary, one side called France and the other Germany | SW_v13#11 p.292 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_11] | @universal peace; world unity, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love and unity | ||||||||||
| AB00637 | 490 | Persian | ای شخص عظیم محترم در جرائد شرق و غرب تفصیل مجلس صلح ملل که در تحت ریاست شما | O thou great and respected personage! The details of the Conference of Peace and Arbitration | MKT2.227 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-227.html] ANDA#43-44 p.92 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] NJB_v02#10 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_10] | SW_v02#15 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_15] | @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity | ||||||||
| AB07697 | 110 | O ye friends and the maidservants of the Merciful! Your letter was received. Its contents conformed with the reality; for it was the song of the heart | DAS.1914-05-30 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=63] | @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||||
| AB01576 | 310 | mixed | ای دوست عزیز خود را غریب نامیدی و این بسیار عجیب بینوا گفتی و این بسیار بعید | O dear friend! Thou hast called thyself a stranger, and this is most strange indeed; thou hast named thyself destitute, and this is far from truth [3.5s] | BLIB_Or.08117.072 | MKT3.460 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-460.html] PYB#042 p.02 HDQI.176 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-181.html] ANDA#03 p.10 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-3] DAUD.10 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol3/daud1/daud1.htm] | @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @power of prayer, @permission for visit; pilgrimage | ||||||||
| AB03885 | 190 | Truly I say many societies are organized in America for the promotion of the thought of peace and universal brotherhood. | CHU.074 [https://archive.org/stream/compilationofhol00bahrich#page/74/mode/2up] | @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @means of establishment of future civilization, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | |||||||||||
| AB04423 | 170 | O thou beloved maidservant of God! ...Add as much as ye can to love and affinity | SW_v10#11 p.222 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_11] | @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @non-participation in politics, @consultation, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||||
| AB11262 | 40 | ...May this American democracy be the first nation to establish the foundation of international agreement | ADJ.085bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/414788765] GPB.254x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647760190] WOB.075-076x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647076745] | @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||||
| ABU1165 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-04-15 | 270 | While surrounded with all these innumerable sufferings and calamities my mind and spirit have been working day and night gathering brilliant pearls of new Ideals... If it is in accord with the Will of God we shall take another journey into the outside world | DAS.1915-04-15 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=86] | @universal peace; world unity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @mystical themes, @martyrs and martyrdom, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @East and West; communication between East and West, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||||
| AB00114 | 1010 | mixed | ای مونس سفر من هر چند جواب نامه مرقوم و ارسال گردید ولی حال دوباره از شدت محبت | O companion of my travels! … The great Qa’im-Maqam has said, “The body of the mulla is the object of God’s ridicule,” | INBA84:371 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=374] | RRT.127x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=127] SFI18.279ax [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_18.pdf#page=279] | LOIR20.175ax [http://irfancolloquia.org/pdf/lights20_rafati_maqam_farahani.pdf#page=15] | @universal peace; world unity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prophecy and fulfillment | |||||||
| ABU2277 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-31 | 110 | The duties and the responsibilities of the Bahá'í are these: They must be kind to all the religions. They must love humankind with all their hearts and souls. They must work for the public welfare. | DAS.1913-01-31 | @universal peace; world unity, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love and unity, @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | ||||||||||
| ABU2324 | Words to various individuals, spoken on 1912-04-27 | 100 | Persian | چنانکه در میان ایالات متحدهٴ امریکا اتحاد حاصل است ممکن است میان دول عالم باشد | It is possible to establish among the powers of the whole world the unity which is found among the states of the United States of America… | BDA1.056.15 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-56.html] | SW_v19#03 p.091 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_3] MHMD1.065 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=90] | @universal peace; world unity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @harmony of science and religion, @unity of governments; political unity | |||||||
| AB01148 | 370 | Persian | شخص محترما کونفرانس صلح ملل اعظم نتائج این قرن عظیم است این قرن نورانی در | O thou perfect man! The Conference on International Arbitration and Peace is the greatest results of this great age. | BRL_DAK#0995 [https://www.bahai.org/r/757369640] MKT4.160 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-160.html] ANDA#43-44 p.93 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] NJB_v02#10 p.004x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_10] | SW_v02#15 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_15] | @universal peace; world unity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @unity of governments; political unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection, opposition and persecution | ||||||||
| AB02376 | 250 | Persian | ای ثابته بر میثاق نامه ات بتاریخ ۳ دیسمبر ۱۹۱۸ رسید از جهتی نهایت سرور حاصل | O thou firm in the Covenant! ...I ever remember thee and shall never forget the days I have passed in Montreal... ...The events that have transpired, were all recorded fifty years ago in the epistles of Baha'u'llah | BRL_DAK#1096 [https://www.bahai.org/r/807809832] ANDA#74 p.06 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-74] | SW_v13#09 p.252x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_9] MAX.363a [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAX1.pdf#page=363] | @universal peace; world unity, @predictions and prophecies, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | ||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-30.html] | MHMD2.026 | @universal peace; world unity, @predictions and prophecies, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||
| ABU1322 | Words spoken on 1913-11-03 in Ramleh | 240 | The law of Peace has come to stay. We are living in the radiant age of Peace. The Angels of Peace are hovering above our heads. | DAS.1913-11-03 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=84] PN_1913-14_heh p013 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1913-14_heh.pdf#page=13] | @universal peace; world unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @firmness in the Covenant, @unity of governments; political unity, @high station of the true believer, @call to action | ||||||||||
| AB00490 | 560 | Persian | ای بندهٴ پویندهٴ جمال ابهی در زمانیکه علما و فضلا و سروران و تجّار و کسبهٴ طهران بلکه عموم از مهتر | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Now I have found the opportunity to answer the petitions recently received and forward them to you in this mail. | MAS5.205x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-205.html] | TAB.489-492 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA489] | @universal peace; world unity, @past, present and future of Iran, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @non-participation in politics | ||||||||
| ABU0729 | Words spoken on 1912-12-24 in London | 400 | Persian | از امریکا میایم نه ماه در صفحات امریکا بودم بهر شهری رفتم در کنائس و مجامع | I have come from America. For nine months, I visited the various places of America | BDA2.039 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-47.html] | MHMD2.045-046 | @universal peace; world unity, @oneness; unity of religion, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | |||||||
| ABU0612 | Words spoken ca. 1919-07-17 | 470 | Fifty years ago, Baha'o'llah wrote that there must be a league of nations to establish universal peace | SW_v10#09 p.195-196 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_9] | @universal peace; world unity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @unity in diversity, @equality of men and women, @means of establishment of future civilization, @predictions and prophecies, @unity; oneness of humanity, @words vs deeds | ||||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-95.html] | SW_v19#06 p.180-181 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_6] MHMD1.102 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=127] | @universal peace; world unity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @goodly deeds; actions | |||||||
| AB05295 | 150 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای منجذبه محبت الله شمس حقیقت از افق عالم طالع شد و نور هدایت درخشید فیض ابدی | O thou who art carried away by the love of God! The Sun of Truth hath risen above the horizon of this world and cast down its beams of guidance. | MMK1#201 p.238 [https://www.bahai.org/r/125180654] | SWAB#201 [http://www.bahai.org/r/548309757] COF.037x [http://www.bahai.org/r/850021065] | @universal peace; world unity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @being a source of light; guidance, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||
| AB10584 | 60 | Persian | ای مصلح احباء صلح و صفاء از لوازم محبت الله است حمد خدا را که موفق بر اصلاح | O reformer of the beloved ones! Peace and harmony are among the requisites of the love of God. Praise be to God that thou hast been confirmed in fostering unity [3.5s] | MKT8.141 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-141.html] | @universal peace; world unity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| ABU1298 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-09-30 | 240 | Persian | امر الله نافذ است جمیع عالم را احاطه خواهد کرد الآن من چون بصحرای امریکا نگاه می کنم می بینم مملو از اهل بهاست | The Cause of God is penetrating. It will encompass the whole world. Now as I observe the wilderness of America, I see it full of Baha'ís. | BDA1.279.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-279.html] | MHMD1.297x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=322] | @universal peace; world unity, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @Word of God and human limitations, @harmony of science and religion, @growth of the Cause | |||||||
| ABU0224 | Words to Mrs Bryan, spoken on 1912-09-23 | 870 | I have come especially to Lincoln to repay the visit you made to me during your trip around the world.... Work for the sake of God and for the improvement of humanity, without any expectation of praise and reward | DAS.1914-05-13 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=13] SW_v05#08 p.119+122x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_8] SW_v07#18 p.188+195x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_18] | @universal peace; world unity, @justice and wrath of God, @freedom of thought and action, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | ||||||||||
| AB11827 | 280 | Persian | ای بنده جانفشان جمال مبارک نامه ای که بتاریخ ۲۰ ربیع الثانی مرقوم نموده بودید | O thou devoted servant of the Blessed Beauty! The letter thou didst write on the 20th of Rabi'u'th-Thani [3.5s]... ...Thou hadst written that the friends intend to contribute towards the cost of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar. This news imparted infinite joy | BRL_DAK#0373 [http://www.bahai.org/r/218545669] COMP_MASHRIQP#23x [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/originals_mashriq_compilation.pdf] | BRL_MASHRIQ#23x [http://www.bahai.org/r/135373937] | @universal peace; world unity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West | ||||||||
| ABU1440 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-12-01 | 220 | Persian | چون از اغلب مشکلات سیاسی دورند و در گوشه ای آسوده و نسبت بسایر قطعات اهالی امریکا هم بیشتر طالب صلح و صلاح | As Americans are removed from most political difficulties they live at ease in isolation and, compared to most other regions | BDA1.398.01 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-398.html] | MHMD1.417 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=442] | @universal peace; world unity, @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | |||||||
| AB03382 | 200 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان مکاتیبی که بجناب منشادی مرقوم نمودی ملاحظه گردید از حوادث و | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! The letters thou didst write to Jinab-i-Manshadi have been perused [3.5s] | MMK2#279 p.200 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-202.html] | @universal peace; world unity, @growth of the Cause, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @non-participation in politics, @love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||
| AB00091 | Some Answered Questions #012 Commentary on the Eleventh Chapter of Isaiah | 1140 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | اصحاح یازدهم از اشعیا آیهء اول میفرماید "و نهالی از تنهء یسی بیرون آمده | In Isaiah 11:1–9 it is said: “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse | MFD#12 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-50.html] OOL.C022.12 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-12-fa] | SAQ#12 [http://www.bahai.org/r/493874326] GPB.316x [http://www.bahai.org/r/663996689] PDC.191x [http://www.bahai.org/r/074235885] PDC.198-199x [http://www.bahai.org/r/524357358] WOB.204-205x [http://www.bahai.org/r/811612140] LOG#1676x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1676] | @universal peace; world unity, @future of Haifa; of the Holy Land, @symbolism, @knowledge; recognition of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @prophecy and fulfillment | ||||||
| ABU0938 | Words spoken on 1914-02-15 | 330 | The schools should be free from all religious and racial prejudices.... Never let the friends be separated from other people and nations | SW_v09#03 p.029-030 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_3] SW_v15#01 p.037 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_1] | @universal peace; world unity, @educational curricula, @education of children; moral education, @race unity; racial issues, @unity in diversity, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||||
| ABU0803 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 370 | I wished to see you early this morning but so many things engaged Me... Now give Me news from America. | AHF.007-009 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/a-heavenly-feast] | @universal peace; world unity, @critique of Western values; culture, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||||
| AB00721 | 470 | Persian | یار مهربانا از قرار مسموع سفر آذربایجان نمودی تا آذری بجان جاهلان زنی از این | O kind friend! It hath reached mine ears that thou didst journey to Azerbaijan, that thou mightest kindle a fire in the hearts of the ignorant [3.5s] | MSHR5.276-277 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=272] | @universal peace; world unity, @contention and conflict, @suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||
| ABU0075 | Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04 | 1400 | The differences between this Revelation and that of Jesus Christ are, that in this cycle all the inhabitants of the world will be gathered in one nation | SW_v11#17 p.286x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17] PN_1901 p017 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1901.pdf#page=17] PN_1901 p040 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1901.pdf#page=40] | @universal peace; world unity, @Christ; Christianity, @suffering and imprisonment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @growth of the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom | ||||||||||
| ABU2072 | 130 | Every century holds the solution of one predominating problem. Although there may be many problems | COC#1605x LOG#1420x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1420] SW_v07#15 p.136 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] | @universal peace; world unity, @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||||
| AB03095 | 210 | O ye denizens of the Kingdom! Your letter was received and caused joy and gladness | DAS.1914-10-13 SW_v06#11 p.083+087 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_11] PN_1914 p077 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=77] PN_1914 p110 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=110] | @universal peace; world unity, @call to action, @firmness in the Covenant, @praise and encouragement, @love and unity | |||||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-359.html] | 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 | |||||||
| AB12466 | 120 | O thou heavenly daughter! Your letter was delivered to me. Praise be to God! You have met this young American (Mac Gilivray) and have united in the highest spirituality | BBBD.566-567 | @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||||
| ABU0705 | The Eighth Principle—Universal Peace: Words spoken on 1911-11-29 in Paris | 410 | Persian | Paris Talks | از جمله أوامر حضرت بهاء الله اینست که باید جمیع ملت | A Supreme Tribunal shall be established by the peoples and Governments of every nation, composed of members elected from each country and Government. | KHTB1.233 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-235.html] KHTP.175 | LOG#1076x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1076] PT#48 p.161 [http://www.bahai.org/r/613149653] | @universal language, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||
| AB12217 | 250 | The greatest need of humanity today is the removal of the existing misunderstandings and disagreements among nations, which can only be achieved through the unity of language | BBBD.170 | @universal language, @universal peace; world unity, @the power of words; of speech | |||||||||||
| ABU2409 | 100 | At the city gate four travelers sat, a Persian, a Turk, an Arab, and a Greek. They were hungry and wanted their evening meal | SW_v09#18 p.211 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_18] VLAB.156 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] STAB#139 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=139] | @universal language, @unity in diversity, @stories; anecdotes | |||||||||||
| AB10953 | 390 | Persian | ای محب نوع انسانی نامه رسید و از مضامین معانی دلنشین مفهوم گردید حمد کن خدا را | O thou lover of humanity! Thy letter was received and its contents imparted spiritual significances… every great Cause in this world of existence findeth visible expression through three means | BRL_DAK#0087 [http://www.bahai.org/r/095551055] COMP_PEACEP#24x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/originals_peace_compilation.pdf] NJB_v01#12 p.005x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_12] | BRL_ATE#096x [http://www.bahai.org/r/445385556] BRL_PEACE#24x [http://www.bahai.org/r/208846679] TAB.690-692 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA690] COC#1585x LOG#1142x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1142] BSC.467 #872-873x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSTW#302 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=3] | @universal language, @teachings as spirit of the age, @unity; oneness of humanity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | ||||||||
| AB08640 | 90 | O thou firm in the Covenant! As to thy attendance at the Esperanto Congress | SW_v11#18 p.306 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_18] | @universal language, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| ABU0976 | Conversation with "Mr. F", Ritz Hotel in Budapest, 1913-04-11 | 320 | Now that you have seen many parts of the world, I hope you will also make a voyage to the country of Baha. | DAS.1913-04-11 | @universal language, @symbolism, @spiritual transformation, @being a source of light; guidance | ||||||||||
| ABU1330 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 240 | We have been writing this morning... You can offer services in English, and in America you can offer a better service in English. | AHF.014-015 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/a-heavenly-feast] | @universal language, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @universal language, @predictions and prophecies, @grammar and orthography | |||||||||
| AB05276 | 150 | Persian | ای معلم دبستان توکل نامه جدید وصول یافت و فرح و سرور حصول گشت زیرا دلیل بر آن | O teacher of the elementary school! Thy recent letter of trust hath arrived and brought joy and gladness, for it testifieth that [3.5s] | PYB#173 p.33 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/173.PDF#page=33] YQAZ.619 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/yaran-i-qazvin_munjadhiban-i-jamal-i-mubin.pdf] | @universal language, @personal instructions, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| ABU0354 | Talk given at Hotel Moderne, Paris, on 1913-02-12 | 670 | Persian | در عالم انسانی دو قضیه است عمومی و خصوصی هر امری عمومی فوائدش بی نهایت است و | In the material world of existence, human undertakings are divided into two kinds--universal and specific. | AMK.276-279 AVK3.209.19x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-213.html] KHF.241 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=244] KHTB3.093 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-95.html] NJB_v12#06 p.128 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_6] BDA2.133x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-141.html] | SW_v04#02 p.036-037 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2] SW_v17#07 p.216 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_17/Issue_7] SW_v11#17 p.287+290-291 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17] MHMD2.167x ADP.141-146 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141] | @universal language, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity of governments; political unity, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17] | @universal language, @call to action | ||||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-165.html] | SW_v19#10 p.309 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_10] MHMD1.179-180 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=204] | @universal language | |||||||
| AB04770 | 160 | O thou light of love! Thy letter indicated that the call of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris hath awakened thee. | DAS.1914-05-30 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=63] | @universal human capacity for spiritual recognition, @differences in human capacity, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1910.pdf#page=2] | @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 | ||||||||||
| ABU3525 | 20 | It is most clear and manifest that national affairs will never revolve around their | SW_v07#15 p.138 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v07#15 p.141 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v09#07 p.082 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_7] | @universal education, @unity of thought and belief, @unity of governments; political unity, @education of children; moral education | |||||||||||
| ABU0272 | Words to Alma Albertson et al, spoken on 1900-12-02 | 780 | Truly God has created all the beings, but has created them that they may be educated. And every existing being is endowed with two perfections - creative and educative. | PN_1900 p027 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=27] PN_1900 p050 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=50] BSTW#169h [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=34] | @universal education, @Muhammad; Islam, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @Moses, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @education and the development of capacity, @light and darkness, @need for an educator, @man's distinction from the animal | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v07#15 p.141-142 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] | @universal education, @education of children; moral education, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @fanaticism and hatred | |||||||||||
| ABU2098 | Words spoken on 1913-07-06 in Port Said | 130 | we must ever think of the education of the public and try our utmost to improve the conditions of the submerged classes | DAS.1913-07-06 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=14] ABIE.030 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @universal education, @call to action, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @unity; oneness of humanity, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | ||||||||||
| ABU1590 | Words spoken ca. Dec. 1911 in London | 200 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | The magnet of your love brought me to this country. My hope is that the Divine Light | AIL.054 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#19 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_19] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @words vs deeds, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @East and West; communication between East and West, @The Holy Spirit, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | |||||||||
| AB00242 | 750 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | O noble friends and seekers for the Kingdom of God! About sixty years ago, in the time | KHAB.066 (076) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] | AIL.036 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#13 p.005x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_13] SW_v09#01 p.016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_1] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @suffering and imprisonment, @East and West; communication between East and West | |||||||||
| AB00856 | 420 | mixed | ای احبای الهی و اماء رحمن الحمد لله بدرقه عنایت رسید و راه بسته باز شد ابواب گشوده گشت | O ye beloved of God and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! Praise be unto God that the guide of divine favor hath arrived, and the path once barred hath opened, the gates have been unlocked [3.5s] | MKT3.309 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-309.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @non-participation in politics | |||||||||
| ABU0119 | Public address given on 1912-10-26 | 1140 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | I have visited your Capitol and its gardens. No other Capitol has such beautiful surroundings. | PUP#114 (p.376-380) [http://www.bahai.org/r/696326530] DAS.1914-09-05x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_12.pdf#page=37] SW_v05#17 p.259-262 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_17] MAB.087-088x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=112] ECN.368+503x+912x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=368] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||
| AB01754 | 300 | Your letter written on March 10 1915 was duly received. Praise be to God that it contained the good news of the health | DAS.1915-04-25x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=17] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @light and darkness | |||||||||||
| ABU1617 | Words to a physician, spoken on 1912-11-05 | 190 | Persian | مقصود من الفت بین احزابست و ترک تعصب و ضغینه و بغضا تا ملل و امم عالم با یکدیگر برادر شوند جمیع خیر خواه جنس بشر گردند | My aim is to create harmony and concord among the different groups and to eradicate prejudice, hatred and enmity | BDA1.355.16 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-355.html] | MHMD1.374-375 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=399] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @oneness; unity of religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @universal peace; world unity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||
| ABU2293 | Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-04-11 | 110 | Having heard of the numerous organizations for peace and arbitration, and because of My great interest in these subject, I have come here to advocate | SW_v19#02 p.053 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_2] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @oneness; unity of religion, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @universal peace; world unity, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God | ||||||||||
| ABU0135 | 1070 | Persian | عجیب است جمیع مردم مضطربند ده پانزده روز قبل با قنسول آلمان در مسئلهٴ | Strange indeed it is that all people are in a state of agitation. Some ten to fifteen days ago, with the German Consul regarding the matter of [3.5s] | KHF.068 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=71] KHAB.458 (459) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.037 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-39.html] NJB_v05#13 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_13] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence, @transcending the material condition, @nationalism; love of country, @power of love | |||||||||
| AB01289 | 350 | mixed | لک الحمد یا الهی بما اخترت الاخیار و اجتبیت الابرار و انتخبت الاحرار و | Thine be the praise, O my God, for having chosen the righteous, selected the pure in heart, and singled out the free-spirited [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0049 [http://www.bahai.org/r/860057488] SFI20.018-019 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_20.pdf#page=18] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @The Holy Spirit, @praise and encouragement, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| ABU0734 | Words to a Russian princess, spoken on 1913-10-30 | 400 | A Bahá'í is at the same time a Christian, a Jew, a Zoroastrian and a Mohammadan. The Bahá'í Cause is like unto a tree... Every moment in this world has a center. | DAS.1913-10-30 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=69] SW_v08#14 p.188x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @unity in diversity, @Manifestation of God as sun, @universality of the Cause | ||||||||||
| ABU2078 | Words to Mr Kinney, spoken around 1909-07-11 | 130 | Among the nations of the world there is darkness of religion. Darkness due to hostility and animosity is intense. | PN_1909 p059 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=59] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @unity in diversity, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||||
| AB00340 | 640 | O ye beloved friends of God! Two days ago, through the protection and providence of the | SW_v03#07 p.007-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_7] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity in diversity, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||||||
| AB00175 | 860 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای ثابتان بر میثاق جناب زائر ذکر هر یک از شما را نمودند و رجای نامه های | O ye who are steadfast in the Covenant! The pilgrim hath made mention of each one of you, and hath asked for a separate letter addressed to each | INBA16:022 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=24] | MNMK#093 p.170 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-168.html] MMK1#221 p.266 [https://www.bahai.org/r/115650068] AKHA_109BE #12 p.2 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_137BE #05 p.66 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] MAS5.026 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-26.html] | SWAB#221 [http://www.bahai.org/r/254019359] LOG#0731x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n731] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | ||||||
| ABU0156 | Words spoken at Esperantist society in Edinburgh, 1913-01-07 | 1020 | Persian | از احساسات وجدانیه مستر ها خیلی ممنونم فی الحقیقه آنچه فرمودند ستایش خود | Every movement which promotes unity and harmony in the world is good, and everything which creates discord and discontent is bad.... I recall an incident which occurred in Baghdad. There were two friends who did not know each other's language... His Holiness Baha'o'llah, many years ago, wrote a book called "The most Holy Book" | AMK.271-274 PYM.039-041x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-39.html] KHF.225 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=228] KHTB3.090 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-92.html] NJB_v04#02 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2] | BSC.337 #664 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v04#02 p.034-036 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2] SW_v11#18 p.299-303+306 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_18] SW_v17#07 p.201 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_17/Issue_7] SW_v11#17 p.286-287 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17] VLAB.156x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] STAB#138x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=138] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal language, @stories; anecdotes, @unity in diversity, @harmony of science and religion, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||
| ABU1206 | Words spoken on 1913-03-07 in Paris | 260 | Persian | امید ما اینست که شرق و غرب دست در آغوش شود و ملل و امم مختلفه حکم یک ملت | Our hope is that the East and the West shall embrace one another, and that the various people and nations of the world | BDA2.171-172 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-179.html] | MHMD2.216-217 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity, @suffering and imprisonment, @call to action | |||||||
| AB08243 | 100 | Persian | ای مهربان حضرت یزدان در این زمان تجلی رحمانیت فرموده و جمیع آدمیانرا در زیر | O Kind Lord of God, in this time Thou hast manifested Thy divine mercy and gathered all humanity under [3.5s] | YARP2.494 p.364 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-370.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha | |||||||||
| ABU1936 | 150 | ...multitudiness, they all emanate from the solar center. May we be like these trees | BSTW#084b [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=86] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence | |||||||||||
| ABU2557 | Words to professors and clergymen, spoken on 1912-09-03 | 80 | Persian | اینست مقصد اهل بهآء آیا تو نمیخواهی این کار را بکنی تو هم بکوش تا عالم انسانی وحدت حقیقی یابد | This is the purpose of the people of Baha. Would you not like to serve such an ideal? I hope you will put forth effort in this direction so that the world of men may find real unity | BDA1.224.04 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-224.html] | SW_v19#12 p.381 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_12] MHMD1.240 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=265] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity | |||||||
| AB02630 | 240 | O ye dear friends and maidservants of God! Your epistle was received.** You have expressed joy and happiness | SW_v01#16 p.001-002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_16] BSTW#388 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=64] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||||||
| AB11419 | 30 | ...The essence of Oneness is sanctified above the servitude of the world of mankind | SW_v14#06 p.167 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_6] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||||
| AB07766 | 110 | Persian | شخص محترما مقاصد خیریه آنجناب فی الحقیقه سزاوار ستایش است و ما را نیز مقاصد | Your benevolent intentions, O esteemed one, are indeed worthy of praise, and our purposes too [3.5s] | MKT4.162a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-162.html] NJB_v02#14-16 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace | |||||||||
| AB11093 | 50 | ...An hundred good tidings that the doors of the Kingdom have been opened and the Call of the Lord of the Kingdom upraised. | SW_v14#10 p.304-305 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_10] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @blind imitation [taqlid] | |||||||||||
| ABU1120 | Words spoken at City Temple in London, 1911-09-10 | 280 | Persian | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | ای جمع محترم و ای طالبان خدا الحمد لله نور حقیقت درخشید و نسیم گلشن عنایت وزید | O noble friends, seekers after God, praise be to God! Today the light of truth.... This is a new cycle of human power | BRL_DAK#1056 [https://www.bahai.org/r/751749399] AMK.174-174a KHAB.053 (062) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.019 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-21.html] | BSC.273 #561 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] AIL.019 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#11 p.008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_11] SW_v08#01 p.009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_1] ABS#06 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/09/10/on-the-oneness-of-humanity/] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @The Holy Spirit, @race unity; racial issues, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence, @oneness; unity of religion, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @universal peace; world unity | ||||||
| AB00612 | 500 | Persian | ای منجذب حقیقت نامه بتاریخ 31 جولای 1920 رسید و از مضامینش | O thou who art attracted to Truth! Thy letter dated 31 July 1920 was received, and from its contents [3.5s] | MKT3.392 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-392.html] AVK2.100.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-101.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||
| AB05375 | 150 | mixed | ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء نامه شما قرائت شد از تبریک و تهنیت نهایت مسرت حاصل | O dearly beloved friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Your letter was read, and from your congratulations and felicitations the utmost joy was obtained [3.5s] | MKT9.281b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=141] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @thankfulness; gratitude, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| AB12162 | 310 | Persian | ای یاران آسمانی نامه شما که بتاریخ یوم مبارک بعثت حضرت اعلی روحی له الفداء | O heavenly friends! Your letter, which bore the date of the blessed day of the annual celebration of the appearance of His Holiness, the Exalted One (the Bab) — may my spirit be a sacrifice for Him — was received | BBBD.086-087 | BBBD.088-089 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @thankfulness; gratitude, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @praise and encouragement | ||||||||
| AB00321 | 660 | mixed | ای ثابت بر پیمان مکاتیب مفصله مطالعه گردید آنچه در همدان مجری داشتید خدمتی | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy detailed letters were studied. That which thou didst carry out in Hamadan constituteth a service [3.5s] | MSHR4.302x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=298] MSHR5.174-176 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=170] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings | |||||||||
| AB02645 | 230 | O ye believers of God and the maidservants of the Merciful! All your epistles were duly received. From its contents it became evident | DAS.1915-01-05 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation, @war and peace, @love of God, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||||||||
| AB04551 | 170 | mixed | از تغيير و تبديل در مأمورين سفارت عظمی مرقوم نموده بوديد. اميد است که سروران جديد در تمشيت | You wrote concerning changes and replacements among the officers of the supreme embassy. It is hoped that these new leaders in their conduct [3.5s] | MMK6#462x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=338] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB00376 | 620 | mixed | ای نفوس مبارکه نامه شما رسید و بر تفاصیل اطلاع حاصل گردید الحمد لله بکمال قوت | O ye blessed souls! Your letter was received. I became informed with its details. Praise be to God that you have arisen to serve the Cause of God... The fundamental object is the promulgation of the Cause of God and the exaltation of the word of God. This is the power that will become effective in the very heart of the world... O thou world of humanity! Awake! Awake! | NJB_v05#16 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_16] | DAS.1914-08-04x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=94] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @universal peace; world unity, @spiritual transformation, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles | ||||||||
| AB03109 | 210 | O servant of Baha'! Thy letter written to his honor, Mirza . . . . . . . . . ., with the enclosed map of the ground of the Mashrak-el-Azkar | TAB.127-128 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA127] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | |||||||||||
| AB01983 | 280 | Persian | ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء اشارت اتحاد و اتفاق یاران اسراایلی و فرقانی سبب بشارت | O dearly beloved friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The sign of unity and concord among the friends of Israel and the Furqán hath brought glad-tidings [3.5s] | YBN.072 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=77] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||||
| ABU2644 | Words to Alma Albertson et al, spoken on 1900-11-22 | 80 | Look at the great and glorious favors of the Blessed Perfection in bringing together these people... | PN_1900 p018 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=18] PN_1900 p101 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=101] PN_1900 p118 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=118] BSTW#169a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=34] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Shrines and Holy places, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @The Holy Spirit | ||||||||||
| AB04671 | 160 | O thou servant of God! Thy letter and thy poems arrived. From their contents | SW_v11#10 p.166-167 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_10] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love of God | |||||||||||
| AB05222 | 150 | mixed | ای ضرغام اجمه ملکوت جمال قدم و اسم اعظم روحی لاحبائه فدا در جمیع اوقات ذکر | O Lion of the thicket of the Kingdom of the Ancient Beauty and the Most Great Name - may my spirit be a sacrifice for His loved ones - make thou mention [3.5s] | INBA87:180a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=182] INBA52:181a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=183] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB02080 | 270 | O thou beloved daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter was received. It contained the most great glad tidings | SW_v10#04 p.080 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||||
| AB01080 | 380 | mixed | ای یاران روحانی عبدالبهاء و اماء رحمان جناب میرزا فرج الله خان را قوه کرم حرکت | O spiritual companions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! The noble Mírzá Faraj'u'lláh Khán hath been moved by the power of divine grace [3.5s] | MSHR4.378-379 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=374] MSHR5.262bx [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=258] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for forgiveness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @personal instructions | |||||||||
| AB12463 | 120 | O you two blessed souls! You are truly blessed, for you have sincerely occupied yourselves in the service of the Kingdom. You have no other desire | BBBD.412 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB01368 | 340 | The Greatest Name (may my life redeem His beloved!) was manifested in the centre of the world. It sent forth the Light of Unity and the Bounty of Harmony and Love. | PN_1909 p073 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=73] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @love and unity, @light and darkness | |||||||||||
| AB09218 | 80 | Persian | مقصود از تحمّل جمیع صدمات و حمل بلیّات و انفاق جان و ریختن خون هزاران نفوس مبارکه | The purpose underlying the endurance of every affliction, the bearing of all tribulations, the sacrifice of life itself, and the shedding of the blood of countless blessed souls [3.5s] | NJB_v01#08 p.005-006x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_8] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @House of Justice, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @equality of men and women | |||||||||
| AB04654 | 160 | Persian | ای بشیرالهی هر چند اوقات نامساعد و ناقضان در ضر عبدالبهاء مجاهد و مخابره بین | O divine herald! Though times be unfavorable and the Covenant-breakers strive against 'Abdu'l-Bahá, communications between [3.5s] | MMK5#024 p.018 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-21.html] BSHI.041-042 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=41] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @review of publications | |||||||||
| AB12130 | 430 | Persian | دوست قدیما در ایامیکه در نیویورک بودم اکثر اوقات با تو معاشر و مجالس بودم روزیکه | O dear friend! In the days when I was in New York, I associated and met with thee on numerous occasions. The day when [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0860 [https://www.bahai.org/r/910024339] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @stories; anecdotes, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @personal instructions, @apostles; early disciples of Christ | |||||||||
| ABU0191 | Words to MacNutts et al around Jan. 1905 | 930 | Now have we, the beloved of God, gathered together to partake of material and spiritual food... Strive, Strive always that ye may be united... There are two kinds of love... There is something that I especially wish to make you sure of... If you should receive news in America that I have been thrown into the sea | BSC.450 #821x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v12#16 p.254x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_16] SW_v08#10 p.134x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] PN_1905 p010 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=10] PN_1904 p088x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=88] PN_1905 p011x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=11] BSTW#320 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=29] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love of God, @love and unity, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @suffering and imprisonment, @Nineteen-Day Feast | ||||||||||
| AB12040 | 110 | Likewise, when the regiments of an army and the members of a legion stand together and are connected with one another | BRL_ATE#083 [http://www.bahai.org/r/983710589] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||||
| AB03588 | 200 | ...Servitude to all the human race is my perpetual religion. Through the bounty and favor of the Blessed Perfection | SW_v08#15 p.210-211x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_15] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||||||
| AB01018 | 390 | Persian | ای یاران عبدالبهاء شمس حقیقت نیر ملکوت اعلی بجهت اتحاد عقاید و آراء... عبدالبهآء را به جان و دل گوش نمائید | O ye friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The Sun of Truth, the Luminary of the Supreme Kingdom, for the unity of thoughts and opinions... hearken with heart and soul unto 'Abdu'l-Bahá [3.5s] | MMK2#183 p.132 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-134.html] AKHA_118BE #05-06 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] BSHN.140.480.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-487.html] BSHN.144.473bx PYB#096 p.03 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @unity of thought and belief, @contention and conflict | |||||||||
| AB03696 | 190 | O thou daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter full of significances imparted spiritual joy | SW_v09#13 p.143-144 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_13] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | |||||||||||
| AB01807 | 290 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه ای که بجناب آقا محمد تقی مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گشت | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! The letter which thou didst address to Jináb-i-Áqá Muhammad-Taqí hath been perused [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0429 [http://www.bahai.org/r/473273686] MKT3.316 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-316.html] QT105.1.268 MSBH8.310-311 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/254.pdf#page=153] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| AB07918 | 100 | Persian | ای بنده الهی تا توانی در هدایت خلق کوش و سقایت بوستان حق نما ید عنایت در | O servant of God! Strive with all thy might to guide humanity and water the garden of the Lord [3.5s] | INBA87:076a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=78] INBA52:075a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=77] | MMK2#231 p.166 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-168.html] AKHA_133BE #18 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] RRT.032 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=32] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @love and unity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||
| AB06384 | 130 | Persian | ای واله شیداای هر جمعی پریشان گردد و هر انجمنی بیسر و سامان شود بجز جمعی که | O enraptured lover! Every gathering shall be scattered and every assembly thrown into disarray, save for that company which [3.5s] | MMK6#593 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=433] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa | |||||||||
| AB01966 | 280 | Persian | ای ورقات مهتزات منجذبات در این قیامت کبری میدانی ترتیب شد که از یک جهه حد | O ye fluttering, enraptured leaves! In this Most Great Resurrection a field hath been arranged such that, from one direction, the [3.5s] | INBA13:179 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=90] | MKT7.133 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-137.html] BSHN.140.459 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-466.html] BSHN.144.453 MHT1b.235 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=235] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||
| ABU0388 | Address at unity feast, Flynn home in Green Acre, 1912-08-20 | 630 | ...that a man from the East encounters a person from the West, and between the two | PN_1912 p023 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=23] BSTW#335 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=50] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @unity in diversity | ||||||||||
| AB01963 | 280 | O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God! Thy letter written Aug. 3 1920 gas been received. Praise be unto God, the friends at Los Angeles | BSTW#029 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=38] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @education of children; moral education | |||||||||||
| AB03158 | 210 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای دوستان حقیقی نامه شما رسید و از مضمون روح و ریحان حاصل گردید الحمد لله بزمی | O ye true friends! Your letter hath been received and it brought great joy. God be praised, ye had made ready an entertainment | MMK1#047 p.086 [https://www.bahai.org/r/622254341] | SWAB#047 [http://www.bahai.org/r/353272279] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @Nineteen-Day Feast, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion | |||||||
| AB07504 | 110 | O thou living flame of the love of God! Thy letter was received. It was | SW_v10#12 p.236 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_12] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @non-participation in politics, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||||
| AB01614 | 310 | O ye spiritual friends of Abdul-Baha! Your long letter was considered and its contents were a source of happiness. Thank God that ye, western friends | TAB.020-022 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA20] BWF.413-413x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @grammar and orthography, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||||
| ABU0807 | Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-16 | 370 | East and West are gathered here. Very good! Whatever gathering establishes love and union among human kind is Heavenly Bounty... Sixty years ago they introduced the potato into Persia | PN_1919 p019 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=19] PN_1919 p102 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=102] LAT.027-030 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @suffering; rejection of Christ | ||||||||||
| AB04499 | 170 | O ye real friends of Abdul-Baha! From the gathering of those illuminated faces and flowers of the rose-garden (of God) in Camp Mineola | TAB.428-429 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA428] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @Manifestation of God as sun | |||||||||||
| AB12544 | 100 | Persian | ای دو خواهر پاک گهر از خدا خواهم که آن دو خواهر مانند دو اختر فرقدان در افق | O ye two pure-natured sisters! I pray to God that ye those two sisters, like unto two heavenly stars, may shine upon the horizon of the Love of God | BBBD.400 | BBBD.401 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | ||||||||
| AB06648 | 120 | Persian | ای بنده حق جناب روشن در این انجمن بنور محبت الله مانند شمع روشن شد حال مراجعت | O servant of God! His honor Roshan in this gathering hath been illumined by the light of the love of God even as a bright candle [3.5s] | INBA87:083a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=85] INBA52:082a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=84] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | |||||||||
| AB01737 | 300 | mixed | ای یاران الهی الحمد لله دریای بی پایان در موج و هیجان و ابر نیسان یزدان در | O divine friends! Praise be to God, the boundless ocean is in tumult, and the April cloud of the Almighty is in motion [3.5s] | MKT8.178 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-178.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | |||||||||
| AB00539 | 540 | Persian | ای یاران الهی و اماء رحمانی نامه مبارک شما در خوشترین وقتی وصول یافت وقتیکه دیده | O divine friends and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! Your blessed letter was received at the most delightful of moments, at a time when the eye [3.5s] | MMK5#277 p.211 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-214.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @power of prayer | |||||||||
| AB04680 | 160 | Persian | ای بنده جانفشان بها مکاتیب متعدده شما رسید مضامین شادمانی بخشید از محافل | O self-sacrificing servant of Baha! Your numerous letters have arrived and their contents brought joy [3.5s] | MKT8.023 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-23.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB00104 | 1070 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; River of Life, The | ای مقبلان ای مومنان طلوع شمس حقیقت محض نورانیت عالمست و ظهور رحمانیت در انجمن | O peoples of the world! The Sun of Truth hath risen to illumine the whole earth, and to spiritualize the community of man. | MKT3.118 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-118.html] MNMK#088 p.157 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-155.html] MMK1#001 p.001 [https://www.bahai.org/r/213937513] MILAN.122 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/122.jpg] BSHN.140.498 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-505.html] BSHN.144.486 PYM.244 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-244.html] MAS5.273 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-273.html] MHT1a.097 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=98] MHT1b.055 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=55] DAUD.15 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol3/daud1/daud1.htm] | SWAB#001 [http://www.bahai.org/r/641667281] ROL.051-055 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/d/dawud_river_of_life.pdf] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @war and peace, @being a source of light; guidance, @light and darkness, @love and unity, @spiritual transformation, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||
| AB10466 | 60 | mixed | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید فی الحقیقه خادم امراللهی و صادق کلمه الله بجان | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received. In truth, thou art a servant of the Cause of God and faithful to the Word of God with all thy soul [3.5s] | AADA.145x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/831.pdf#page=152] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB02869 | 220 | Persian | ای احباء وقتى میاید که از بین مفارقت میکنم آنچه باید بکنم کرده ام تا اندازه ای که | Friends, the time is coming when I shall be no longer with you. I have done all that could be done. I have served the Cause of Baha’u’llah to the utmost of my ability | AYT.526 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-526.html] YHA2.982 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/684.pdf#page=439] | GPB.309x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366481740] BNE.061x [https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/publications-individual-authors/bahaullah-new-era/1#773046298] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @exhortations and counsels, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @call to action, @love and unity, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | ||||||||
| ABU1446 | Words spoken on 1911-09-23 in London | 220 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | You are very welcome. I have come far to see you. I praise God that after forty years of waiting I am permitted at last to come and bring my message. | KHAB.065 (074) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] | AIL.082 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @race unity; racial issues, @spiritual transformation, @universal peace; world unity | ||||||||
| AB11903 | 150 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما با سواد عکس انداخته دو مکتوب رسید فی الحقیقه آنجناب | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter, together with a photograph, hath reached me. In truth, thou [3.5s] | INBA79.061 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v079/?page=3] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @call to action, @non-participation in politics | |||||||||
| ABU0023 | Public address given on 1912-07-14 | 2030 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | Today I wish to speak to you upon the subject of the oneness of humanity, for in this great century... O my God! O my God! Verily, I invoke Thee… O Lord! Unite and bind together the hearts | BPRY.238-239x [http://www.bahai.org/r/811450155] COC#0858x LOG#0732x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n732] PUP#082 (p.228-235) [http://www.bahai.org/r/074381698] BSC.345 #672 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#11 p.013-016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_11] | A. Youssefi [https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/unite] N. Zabihi [https://youtu.be/ez5jzGmhdnQ] P. Weber [https://youtu.be/HQ2es9abTCI] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @Satan; the Evil One, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @suffering and imprisonment, @equality of men and women, @universal language, @war and peace | ||||||||
| ABU1888 | Words to several Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-01 | 160 | Promulgation of Universal Peace; Early History of the Bahá'í Community in Boston, Massachusetts | I desire to make manifest among the friends in America a new light that they may become a new people | PUP#078 (p.218) [http://www.bahai.org/r/334350233] PN_1912 p068 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=68] BLO_PT#028m [https://bahai-library.com/rideout_history_community_boston] | M. Weigert [https://youtu.be/nne3UgK1Nwg] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @being a source of light; guidance, @words vs deeds, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion | ||||||||
| ABU2352 | Words to a Mohammedan Sheikh, spoken on 1913-12-16 | 100 | My friends! How long, how long these prejudices? How long this dogmatic superiority? How long this fanatical attitude? | DAS.1913-12-16 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=69] BSTW#095 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=114] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @religious rituals minimized or eliminated, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @blind imitation [taqlid], @fanaticism and hatred | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_2] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as source of love and unity, @spirit and form in the administration, @symbolism, @literal interpretation, @love and unity | ||||||||||
| AB01934 | 280 | mixed | ای دو بنده باوفای جانفشان جمال ابهی نامه رسید و از قرائتش سروری جدید حاصل | O ye two faithful servants who have sacrificed your lives for the Abhá Beauty! Your letter was received, and from its perusal a fresh joy was obtained [3.5s] | INBA84:405 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=408] | MKT9.146 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=74] MMK6#337 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=248] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @relationship between government and people | ||||||||
| ABU1623 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 190 | There is no freedom yet in Persia. It is not possible now to promulgate freely the Teachings of this Cause. | AHF.010-011 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/a-heavenly-feast] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||||
| AB11805 | 90 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید از تفصیل یحیاایها اطلاع حاصل گردید سبب جمیع اینها اختلاف احباست | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter was received and its contents regarding the Azalis became known. The root cause of all these matters is the discord among the friends [3.5s] | KSFH3.077x | @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @constitutional revolution in Iran | |||||||||
| 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @predictions and prophecies | |||||||||
| ABU2528 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-26 | 90 | There should be no differentiation between the blacks and the whites. All are the creatures of God | SW_v12#05 p.107 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_5] PN_1909F p069 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909F.pdf#page=69] PN_1909F p129? [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909F.pdf#page=129] AKL.011 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @stories; anecdotes, @chastisement and requital | ||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @love and unity | ||||||||||
| AB04790 | 160 | Persian | ای طالب حقیقت نامه تو رسید مضمون دلیل بر حصول هدایت کبری بود شکر کن خدا را که | O thou wooer of Truth! Thy letter was received. Its contents indicated thy attainment to the Most Great Guidance…. I hope that thou mayest become a herald of the Kingdom and a means whereby the white and coloured peoples shall close their eyes to racial differences | BRL_DAK#0621 [https://www.bahai.org/r/372031940] | BRL_ATE#191x [https://www.bahai.org/r/429993783] SW_v12#05 p.103+106 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_5] AHV.029a [https://bahai-library.com/gregory_heavenly_vista] BLO_PN#045 [https://bahai-library.com/gregory_heavenly_vista] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @being a source of light; guidance, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @call to action | ||||||||
| AB11443 | 30 | ...Baha'u'llah hath said that the various races of humankind lend a composite harmony and beauty of color to the whole | ADJ.037bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/906573525] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues | |||||||||||
| AB03610 | 190 | Persian | ای ابناء و بنات ملکوت نامه شما رسید از مضمون حقیقت بیان حضرت مسیح تحقق یافت | O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! Your letter was received. From | MKT3.078 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-78.html] | SW_v10#04 p.077 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @praise and encouragement, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction | ||||||||
| ABU1777 | Words to a group of American students, spoken on 1913-03-25 | 170 | I am likewise most pleased to meet you. This cause has become world-wide. In a short space of time it has permeated throughout all the regions, for it has a magnetic power | DAS.1913-03-25 BSC.443 #809x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] DWN_v5#01 p.006x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @purpose; goal of creation, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @symbolism, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @universal peace; world unity, @unity in diversity, @harmony of science and religion | ||||||||||
| AB06287 | 130 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای کنیز محترمه الهی نامه تو از لوزآنجلیز رسید شکر کن خدا را که موفق بخدمت شدی | O thou revered maidservant of God! Thy letter from Los Angeles was received... Not till the darkness of difference | MMK1#077 p.110 [https://www.bahai.org/r/171600165] | SWAB#077 [http://www.bahai.org/r/271261067] SW_v10#01 p.009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_1] SW_v10#09 p.185-186 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_9] SW_v10#09 p.178 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_9] BLO_PT#052.33 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_letters_louise_waite] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @music and singing, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | |||||||
| ABU0894 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 340 | Every one receiving these instructions will think, 'How like my own religion!' This is because they are so broad that they include all truths; and all religions are built upon the same foundation. | AELT.128-130 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=175] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @oneness; unity of religion, @outward and inward meanings | ||||||||||
| AB01575 | 310 | Persian | ای دوست حقیقی چندی است که آهنگ جنگ بلند است و شرق و غرب میدان سپاه تیزچنگ | O true friend! For some time now hath the call of war been raised, and East and West have become the battlefield of fierce and formidable hosts [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1219 [https://www.bahai.org/r/429345144] PYB#040 p.02 HDQI.171 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-176.html] ANDA#04 p.03 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @war and peace, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | |||||||||
| AB02849 | 230 | O ye believers of God! Avoid the smell of ignorant prejudices, the blind enmity and hatred and the racial, patriotic and religious superstitions | DAS.1914-03-05 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=27] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity | |||||||||||
| AB07068 | 120 | Persian | خداوند مهربانا این جمع در ظل رحمت تواند و این نفوس متوجه بملکوت تو خدایا | O compassionate Lord! This gathering is beneath the shelter of Thy mercy, and these souls are turned toward Thy Kingdom, O my God [3.5s] | INBA75:086 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=92] | ADH2.010 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_1#03 p.010 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.080 MMG2#046 p.046 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-49.html] MJH.030b [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-31.html] KHTB2.254 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-256.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @prayer for unity | ||||||||
| AB01657 | 300 | mixed | اللهم یا بادع الاکوان و بادی الالطاف و سابق الاحسان و جزیل الاسعاف تری عبادک | O Lord! O Creator of all existence, Source of bounties, Fountainhead of bestowals and munificent Bestower of aid, Thou beholdest Thy servants [3.5s] | MMG2#093 p.103 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-106.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for unity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||
| AB02614 | 240 | Arabic | ایتها المقتبسه من نور الهدی انی تلوت نمیقتک النوراء الداله علی اقبالک الی الله | O thou who hast gained illumination from the Light of Guidance! Verily, I perused thy brilliant letter, which showed that thou hast advanced toward God | BRL_DAK#0798 [https://www.bahai.org/r/345776671] | TAB.183-184 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA183] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @spiritual transformation, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion | ||||||||
| AB02703 | 230 | Persian | ای خادم جمال قدم جواب تحریر ان شخص شهیر سراج منیر بعد ارسال مى شود حال | O thou servant of the Ancient Beauty! The reply to the letter of that renowned person, that luminous lamp, shall be dispatched forthwith [3.5s] | INBA72:141 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=144] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB04598 | 170 | O my God! O my God! We are servants who have sincerely turned our faces unto Thy Grand Face | SW_v02#04 p.007-008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for gatherings; meetings; assemblies, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||||||||
| AB01147 | 370 | mixed | رب یا قیوم الارض و السموات و مسخر الممکنات و المحیط بکل الموجودات تری عبادک | O Lord, Sustainer of earth and heaven, Subduer of all contingent things, Who encompasseth all created beings, Thou beholdest Thy servants [3.5s] | INBA13:085 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=42] | MKT1.411 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-410.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for gatherings; meetings; assemblies, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @humility; meekness; lowliness | ||||||||
| AB02133 | 270 | mixed | ای یاران روحانی من جناب داود ودود بمقام محمود وارد سر بر آستان نهاد و از تربت | O My spiritual friends! His honor David, the loving one, hath attained unto the praiseworthy station, laying his head upon the Threshold [3.5s] | MKT4.127 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-127.html] YHA1.341x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=343] KASH.380 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bahaiyan-i-kashan.pdf#page=380] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @praise and encouragement, @unity in diversity | |||||||||
| AB06944 | 120 | Persian | ای ناظر بملکوت مکتوبت رسید مضمون مفهوم گردید حمد کن خدا را که خانه ات لانه و | O thou who art gazing toward the Kingdom! Thy letter was received. Its contents became known. Thank thou God that thy house | MKT7.127a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-131.html] | TAB.697-698 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA697] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||
| ABU1688 | Words spoken during filming of motion picture on 1912-06-18 | 180 | Persian | مژده باد مژده باد که نور شمس حقیقت طلوع نمود مژده باد مژده باد که صهیون برقص | Glad-tidings, glad-tidings! The sun of Truth has arisen! Glad-tidings, glad-tidings! The New Jerusalem has descended from heaven! | DWNP_v2#09 p.078x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] ANDA#43-44 p.76 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] KHF.001 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=4] KHTB2.153 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-155.html] NJB_v03#06-08 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_6] BDA1.127.08 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-127.html] | SW_v19#08 p.253-254 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_8] MHMD1.136-137 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=161] BW_v07p421 [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol07-1936-1938.pdf#page=421] BSTW#056 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=15] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @praise and encouragement, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @prophecy and fulfillment, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @return of Christ; second coming of Christ, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||
| 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @praise and encouragement, @call to action | |||||||||
| AB00189 | 830 | mixed | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای یاران روحانی عبدالبهاء پیک امین رسید و پیام یاران الهی را در عالم روحانی | O ye spiritual friends of Abdu'l-Baha! A trusted messenger hath arrived and hath, in the world of the spirit, delivered a message from God's loved ones.... In every dispensation the command of friendship and the law of love have been revealed... Now the believers of God must live in accord with these divine teachings.... O God, my God! Aid Thou Thy trusted servants to have loving and tender hearts. | MKT1.303 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-302.html] MNMK#090 p.162 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-160.html] MMK1#007 p.017 [https://www.bahai.org/r/525300039] MILAN.141 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/141.jpg] AHB.128BE #06-11 p.255 BCH.110 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=107] MJMJ2.020ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-21.html] MMG2#074 p.081x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-84.html] YHA1.371-372x (2.746) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=373] | SWAB#007 [http://www.bahai.org/r/879792027] BPRY.201x [http://www.bahai.org/r/876633233] DAS.1913-07-26 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=75] SW_v08#11 p.140x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_11] SW_v08#12 p.142x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_12] ABIE.111 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | C. Serrano [https://carlosserrano.bandcamp.com/track/unity-and-peace-loving-and-tender-hearts-2] G.H. Miller [https://youtu.be/8AT0StNTjqo] Soulrise Melodies [https://soulrisemelodies.bandcamp.com/track/aid-thou-thy-trusted-servants] R. Johnston-Garvin [track 1] [https://9starmedia.com/rebecca-johnston-garvin-befriend-me] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @education of children; moral education, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @loving community spirit in teaching the Cause | ||||||
| AB03329 | 200 | O thou attracted maidservant of God! Your letter was received. From its | SW_v02#05 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_5] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @power of prayer, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB07293 | 110 | Persian | ای بنده صادق پروردگار ورق محرر مضمون بدیعی داشت و مفهوم لطیفی ستایش خداوند | O thou true servant of the Lord! The written page possessed a wondrous theme, and a delicate meaning in praise of God [3.5s] | ALPA.065a YARP2.075 p.112 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-118.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | |||||||||
| ABU0618 | Words spoken on 1911-09-13 in London | 460 | Persian | خوش آمدید اهالی ایران بسیار مسرورند از اینکه من آمدم اینجا این | Welcome! Welcome! The people of Iran are very pleased that I have come here. My coming here will foster friendship between Britain and Iran | DWNP_v2#08 p.070-071x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] KHTB1.023 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-25.html] NJB_v02#14-16 p.013 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | ABS#12 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/09/13/persian-english-friendship-and-a-brief-history/] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion, @suffering and imprisonment, @unity of governments; political unity, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @The Holy Spirit | |||||||
| ABU0052 | Public address given on 1912-09-01 | 1570 | Persian | Promulgation of Universal Peace | خداوند عالم جمیع را از تراب خلق فرموده جمیع را از یک عناصر خلق کرده کل را از | God the Almighty has created all humanity from dust, from the same elements | BRL_DAK#0656 [https://www.bahai.org/r/360792543] AVK2.132.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-133.html] AVK4.321x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-325.html] AVK4.333cx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-337.html] KHF.214 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=217] KHAB.369 (375) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.224 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-226.html] NJB_v05#05 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_5] BDA1.214.03 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-214.html] | PUP#098 (p.297-302) [http://www.bahai.org/r/217904418] SW_v13#11 p.291-292 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_11] MHMD1.231-236 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=256] ABIC.003-006 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion, @equality of men and women, @call to action, @war and peace, @prayer for peace and unity, @universal language, @race unity; racial issues, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @religion as reality; definitions of religion | ||||||
| ABU0003 | Words spoken throughout the day on 1912-06-08 | 2620 | I have come to Philadelphia to breathe into you the spirit of Bahá'u'lláh. My heart led me here. You must continue to keep the Nineteen Day Feast... O God! Dispel all those elements which are the cause of discord | BPRY.093-094x [http://www.bahai.org/r/643455944] COC#0933x LOG#0796x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n796] SW_v05#06 p.083-089 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_6] SW_v04#07 p.120x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_7] BSTW#430x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_401-450.pdf#page=30] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @Nineteen-Day Feast, @race unity; racial issues, @words vs deeds, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @oneness; unity of religion | ||||||||||
| AB12398 | 140 | O ye beloved friends of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá! Ye have taken upon yourselves the task of publishing the Bahá'í magazine, “Sun of Truth” | BBBD.573-574 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @newspapers and the media; publications, @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity, @spiritual transformation, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||||||
| AB09755 | 80 | My Dear Friend: I have received your letter, for the contents of which I am extremely grateful to you. I understand the aims | SW_v01#18 p.004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_18] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @newspapers and the media; publications | |||||||||||
| ABU0629 | Words to the Coopers, spoken on 1912-10-16 | 460 | You are all dear children of Mrs. [Ella Goodall] Cooper. She loves you with her heart and soul. In Persian language they say that such a person loves another | ECN.841 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=841] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @naming of children; of individuals, @unity in diversity, @suffering and imprisonment, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | ||||||||||
| ABU0158 | Public address given on 1912-09-24 | 1010 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | I have come from distant lands of the East to visit you, crossing the great ocean | PUP#107 (p.334-337) [http://www.bahai.org/r/473247791] SW_v04#13 p.219-220+226 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_13] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @love of God, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual transformation, @knowledge; recognition of God | |||||||||
| AB02185 | 260 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای ابناء و بنات ملکوت نامه شما رسید از مضمون مفهوم گردید که الحمد لله قلوب در | O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! Your letter was received. From its contents it was known that | MKT3.072 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-72.html] MMK1#223 p.270 [https://www.bahai.org/r/703006457] | SWAB#223 [http://www.bahai.org/r/072810467] SW_v10#04 p.076-077 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @consolation and comfort, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @war and peace, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @spiritual transformation | |||||||
| ABU0745 | 400 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @martyrs and martyrdom, @words vs deeds, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||||||
| AB00516 | 550 | Persian | ای یاران نورانی جناب میرزا الیاس زائر خواهش تحریر نامه فرمودند و مرا مهلت و | O luminous friends! Jinab-i-Mirza Ilyas, the pilgrim, requested that an epistle be written, yet time and respite were not granted unto me [3.5s] | MKT3.434 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-434.html] KHMT.050x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KHMT.pdf] KHMT.094-095 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KHMT.pdf] KASH.432x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bahaiyan-i-kashan.pdf#page=432] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual transformation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @unity of thought and belief | |||||||||
| AB04133 | 180 | Persian | ای یاران عزیز من دیدار رخسار ابرار هر چند در صفحه پر نقش و نگار بود ولی پرتو | O my dearly beloved friends! Though the vision of the countenances of the righteous appeared upon a richly adorned page, yet its radiance [3.5s] | YARP2.359 p.287 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-293.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB04643 | 160 | Persian | ای امه الله المنجذبه نامه ات رسید و خطاب در نهایت حلاوت بود زیرا عنوان خطاب | O attracted handmaid of God! Thy letter was received, and its address was of the utmost sweetness [3.5s] | DRM.013a | @unity; oneness of humanity, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | |||||||||
| AB01151 | 370 | Arabic | یا احباء الله و اودائه انی بقلب مشتعل بنار محبتکم و صدر منشرح بذکرکم و عین ناظره | O ye beloved of God and his friends! With a heart kindled by the fire of your love...If ye be truly united, if ye agree to promote that which is the essential purpose, and to show forth an all-unifying love, I swear by Him Who causeth the seed to split | BRL_DAK#0982 [https://www.bahai.org/r/970348895] MKT1.162 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-161.html] MNMK#038 p.123 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-121.html] | COF.029-030x [http://www.bahai.org/r/999409945] PN_various p020x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] BLO_PT#214 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_tablets_home_circle] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | ||||||||
| AB02788 | 230 | Persian | ای یاران روشن من بدرگاه دلبر یگانه شکرانه نمودم که انجمن روحانی نورانی گردیده | O my radiant friends! Unto the threshold of the incomparable Beloved do I render thanks, for the spiritual gathering hath become illumined [3.5s] | SFI09.012a [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_09.pdf#page=12] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @universal peace; world unity, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance | |||||||||
| AB07993 | 100 | O thou who art firm in the Covenant. The glad-tidings of he unity of the | SW_v12#12 p.201 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_12] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| ABU2655 | Words to Waite, Harrison et al, spoken on 1909-10-15 | 80 | You must go back to America as signs of love and love the people very much... In the East the love of the believers is very great, but America has not yet reached this station.... Tell them that love is the one great thing - it is life - the only life of the spirit. | PN_1909B p060 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909B.pdf#page=60] PN_1909C p057 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=57] PN_1909E p097 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909E.pdf#page=97] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion | ||||||||||
| AB04608 | 170 | O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God! Verily, I read thine excellent letter... Every flock of the sheep of God | TAB.184-185 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA184] BWF.402-402x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||||
| AB01896 | 280 | Persian | ای امین عبدالبهاء نامه شما که بتاریخ ۱۰ جمادی الاولی ۱۳۳۹ بود رسید از خطایا و | O trusted one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Thy letter dated 10 Jamádíyu'l-Avval 1339 hath arrived [3.5s] | MSHR3.128 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-130.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB04914 | 160 | mixed | ای یاران مهربان وثیقه اتحاد و اتفاق که بانشاء یکی از بندگان مقرب کبریا مرقوم | O kind friends! The bond of unity and concord, which was penned by one of the near-servants of the Most High [3.5s] | INBA87:230 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=232] INBA52:234b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=236] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @firmness in the Covenant, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB03940 | 180 | Persian | ای بنده جمال ابهی من شما را چون فی الحقیقه خیرخواه یاران میدانم و با کسی غرضی | O servant of the Abhá Beauty! I verily regard thee as one who is a true well-wisher of the friends, harboring no ill will [3.5s] | YARP2.447 p.335 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-341.html] | @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 | |||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| AB00891 | 410 | mixed | ای احبای الهی خبر پرمسرت اتحاد و اتفاق احباء در اسکندریه رسید چه خبر خوشی بود | O divine friends! The joyous tidings of unity and concord among the loved ones in Alexandria have reached us. What glad news this was [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0876 [https://www.bahai.org/r/964905256] MKT2.200 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-200.html] MAS5.149 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-149.html] YHA1.330x (2.650) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=332] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @contention and conflict, @suffering and imprisonment, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @humility; meekness; lowliness | |||||||||
| ABU1490 | Words spoken on 1914-04-02 | 210 | Persian | ای یاران عنقریب یومی اید که دیگر مرا نخواهید دید آنچه تکلیف من بود بجا آوردم | Friends! The time is coming when I shall be no longer with you. I have done all that could be done | DWNP_v1#03-4 p.005-006 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] DWNP_v3#03-4 p.025a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] | GPB.309x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366481740] DAS.1914-04-02 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=100] SW_v05#07 p.104 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_7] SW_v06#06 p.046 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_6] DWN_v6#11 p.001 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] PN_unsorted p025 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=25] PAB.026-027 [https://bahai-library.com/shoghieffendi_blomfield_passing_abdulbaha] ABCC.405-406 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=435] VLAB.027-028 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] BSTW#052v [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=5] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @call to action, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||
| AB01092 | 380 | mixed | حقیقت انسانیه از حیثیت وحدت اصلیه و الفت روحیه مظهر واحدیت فائضه‌ئیست | The human reality, from the standpoint of its essential unity and spiritual affinity, is a manifestation of effulgent oneness [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0502a [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] MSHR3.116 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-118.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love of God, @the power of words; of speech, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| ABU0025 | Words spoken at El Grosse Bldg. in Los Angeles, 1912-10-19 | 2000 | This is a good gathering, a good meeting. This assemblage is the assemblage of God…. Do not look at your small number. Plurality of numbers is not of importance. | SW_v07#04 p.033-034x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_4] ECN.137+166 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=137] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love and unity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @call to action, @fewness of numbers not regarded in teaching the Cause, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @thankfulness; gratitude, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause | ||||||||||
| AB04723 | 160 | mixed | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید ولی پوسته باز شده بود پاکتهای باز شده را آقا | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter was received, but the envelope had been opened. The opened envelopes [3.5s] | AYBY.415 #126 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-424.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love and unity, @praise and encouragement, @unity in diversity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | |||||||||
| AB01815 | 290 | mixed | ای خیرخواه بریتانیا نامه شما رسید و مقاصد خیریه شما معلوم گردید اتحاد و اتفاق | O well-wisher of Britain! Thy letter was received and thy benevolent intentions became known [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1152 [https://www.bahai.org/r/204788310] MKT1.409 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-408.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @love and unity, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @nationalism; love of country | |||||||||
| ABU0027 | Public address given on 1912-06-16 | 1900 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | This is a goodly temple and congregation, for -- praise be to God! -- this is a house of worship | PUP#071 (p.197-203) [http://www.bahai.org/r/505801863] BSC.330 #651 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#10 p.019-023 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @literal interpretation, @Muhammad; Islam, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East, @oneness; unity of religion, @universal peace; world unity, @suffering; rejection of Christ | |||||||||
| AB02781 | 230 | Persian | ای یاران الهی جناب آقا موسا و آقا قنبر علی مسافه بعیده و کوه و صحرا و دریا طی | O divine friends! Jinab-i-Aqa Musa and Aqa Qanbar-'Ali have traversed vast distances, mountains, deserts and seas [3.5s] | MKT9.217b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=109] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @law of pilgrimage, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @love of God | |||||||||
| ABU1027 | Words spoken on 1911-12-01 in Paris | 300 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | I bid a loving farewell to the people of France and England. I am very | AIL.122 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#16 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_16] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @compassion; kindness, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @universal peace; world unity | |||||||||
| ABU0257 | Words spoken at Theosophical Society in London, 1911-10-03 | 800 | mixed | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | ای جمع محترم آتش را لزوم ذاتی سوختن است و قوه برقیه را لزوم ذاتی افروختن | O Respected Assembly! O friends of Truth! The inherent nature of fire is to burn, the inherent nature of electricity is to give light | BRL_DAK#0825 [https://www.bahai.org/r/695046170] AMK.171-173 DWNP_v1#07 p.003-005 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.252 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=255] KHAB.069 (079) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.029 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-31.html] KHTP.006 NJB_v02#14-16 p.015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | AIL.027 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] ABS#03 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/10/03/eleven-essentials-the-bahai-principles-as-taught-by-abdul-baha-in-london/] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @universal peace; world unity, @law of cause and effect, @religion as source of love and unity, @suffering and imprisonment, @education of children; moral education, @equality of men and women | ||||||
| ABU0012 | Public address given on 1912-09-05 | 2260 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | Praise be to God! It is with a deep realization of happiness that I am present here this evening... O my Lord! Thou Who art ever-forgiving! Verily, this assembly hath turned its face | PUP#103 (p.312-319) [http://www.bahai.org/r/360266385] SW_v13#11 p.292-293x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_11] ABIC.014-017 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @equality of men and women, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @harmony of science and religion, @power of prayer, @The Holy Spirit, @universal peace; world unity, @education of children; moral education, @universal language, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion | |||||||||
| AB02138 | 270 | Persian | ای یاران عزیز و ای اماء رحمان جناب خسرو از هندوستان عزم طواف بقعه مبارکه نمود | O beloved friends and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! His honor Khosrow hath set forth from India, intending to circumambulate the Blessed Shrine [3.5s] | HDQI.169bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-174.html] ANDA#03 p.52x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-3] ANDA#08 p.53x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-8] MSBH10.033 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf#page=33] YARP2.353 p.284 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-290.html] PPAR.164 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=166] NVJ.108 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @importance of community building, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||
| AB01312 | 340 | Persian | Early History of the Bahá'í Community in Boston, Massachusetts | ای ثابت بر پیمان دو نامه از شما رسید حال بتحریر جواب مشغولم ولی فرصت جواب | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Two letters from thee have been received. Now I am writing the answer, but I have no opportunity to write | BRL_DAK#1023 [https://www.bahai.org/r/651649599] | BLO_PT#028g [https://bahai-library.com/rideout_history_community_boston] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @business; financial; property matters | |||||||
| ABU0268 | Address to the Baha'is at Bahá'í Temple Unity in Chicago, 1912-04-30 | 790 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | Among the institutes of the Holy Books is that of the foundation of places of worship... O thou kind Lord! This gathering is turning to Thee. | BDA1.063n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-63.html] | BPRY.026x [http://www.bahai.org/r/797820508] PUP#027 (p.065-067) [http://www.bahai.org/r/553141147] BSC.327 #650 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#04 p.007-008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4] SW_v05#16 p.248-250 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_16] SW_v06#17 p.144-145 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_17] SW_v12#06 p.123 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_6] PN_1912 p075 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=75] BW_v01p060x [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/bahai-year-book-vol01-1925-1926.pdf#page=60] | A. Rae [https://youtu.be/f5CAhrLCKts] | MHMD1.071 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=96] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @relationship between government and people, @education of children; moral education, @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice | ||||||
| AB07836 | 110 | ...The believers of God in America, one and all, must unitedly make an effort, so that the Temple | SW_v06#17 p.135-136 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_17] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar] | |||||||||||
| AB01719 | 300 | Persian | ای عاکفان کوی دوست ای عاشقان روی دوست قفقازیا جمیعا تابع رود ارس است که در | O intimates of the court of the Beloved! O adorers of the countenance of the Beloved! | BRL_DAK#0013 [http://www.bahai.org/r/295737071] MKT3.202 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-202.html] AVK2.068.18x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-69.html] | BRL_ATE#014 [http://www.bahai.org/r/316081135] MAAN#34 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAAN.pdf#page=35] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all | ||||||||
| ABU2272 | Words to an English-speaking enquirer spoken in April 1914 | 110 | In this world there are two things which are the cause of man's elevation and progress: one is knowledge and the other is religion. | TDAB.17 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @harmony of science and religion, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @religion as source of love and unity | ||||||||||
| AB00557 | 530 | ...Every one of the friends should highly praise the other and each should regard himself as evanescent and as naught in the presence of others. All matters should be consulted upon in the meeting | BRL_CONSULT#15x [http://www.bahai.org/r/435036250] COC#0181x | @unity; oneness of humanity, @Hands of the Cause, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @consultation, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers | |||||||||||
| AB06615 | 120 | O thou daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter was received. Thou hast praised | SW_v12#01 p.027 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_1] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @growth of the Cause, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace, @importance of community building, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||||
| AB04789 | 160 | Persian | Light of the World | ای طالب حقیقت قوت و عظمت بهاء الله را ملاحظه نما که در اندک مدت شرق و غربرا | O thou seeker after truth! Behold the power and greatness of Baha’u’llah! Within a short span of time, He hath stirred up the East and the West | NURA#02 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#065 p.075 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-78.html] | LOTW#02 [http://www.bahai.org/r/893978749] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @growth of the Cause, @suffering and imprisonment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | |||||||
| AB01006 | 390 | Persian | ای شمع روشن نامه روز نوروز وصول یافت ایامیکه در لندن در خانه تو بندای ملکوت | O thou radiant candle! Thy letter written on the day of Now Rouz was received. The days that I was occupied in thy house with the Cause... The address thou didst deliver at the King's Weigh House Church... During the lifetime of His Holiness Christ no book on this subject gained any importance | BRL_DAK#0126 [http://www.bahai.org/r/769930775] | DAS.1914-04-17x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=33] LBLT.162ax [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LBLT.pdf#page=163] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement, @predictions and prophecies | ||||||||
| AB01189 | 360 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای دو کنیز مقرب پروردگار نامه امة الله مادر بیچر بنظر گذشت و فی الحقیقه لسان | O ye two favoured handmaids of the Lord! The letter from Mother Beecher hath been received, and truly it spoke for you both... It is hoped that all the maidservants of the Merciful, in those regions, will be (united) like unto the waves of one boundless sea. | MNMK#105 p.192 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-190.html] MMK1#036 p.073 [https://www.bahai.org/r/110007605] | SWAB#036 [http://www.bahai.org/r/572246975] BSTW#504a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_500-507.pdf#page=3] | D. Stevenson [https://dannystevensonmusic.com/track/unbroken-line] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa, @unity in diversity, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||
| AB00300 | 690 | mixed | لک الحمد یا الهی بما کشفت الغطاء و رفعت النقاب عن وجه الحقیقه لعبدک المبتهل | All praise be unto Thee, O my God, for Thou hast lifted the veil and removed the covering from the face of truth for Thy suppliant servant [3.5s] | MMK4#178 p.219 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-222.html] ASAT5.356x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=183] DUR4.798 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB02186 | 260 | O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! You brief and interesting letter | SW_v01#06 p.002-003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_6] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB07131 | 120 | ...Praise be to God that this cycle is the luminous Cycle. This is the century in which the Divine Spirit pervades all things. | DAS.1914-04-17x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=33] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | |||||||||||
| AB04305 | 170 | O thou enlightened beloved son! Praise be unto God, that thou didst arrive | BBBD.538-539 SW_v11#13 p.229-230 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_13] BSTW#384 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=57] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @firmness in the Covenant, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||||
| AB11916 | 130 | Persian | ای اغنام حضرت بهاء خوشا بحال نفوسیکه در ماه صیام روزه گرفتند و بکمال اتحاد و اتفاق | O ye flock of the Lord of glory! Blessed are they who have observed the fast during its appointed month | BRL_DAK#0419 [http://www.bahai.org/r/565932080] | BRL_ATE#132 [http://www.bahai.org/r/638575846] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @firmness in the Covenant, @law of fasting, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @universal peace; world unity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness | ||||||||
| ABU0110 | Public address given on 1912-04-25 | 1180 | Persian | امشب شب مبارکی است شایان نهایت سرور و ستایش است بجهاتی چند اولا الحمد لله | This night is a very blessed night, worthy of the utmost praise and joy for many reasons. | KHTB2.046 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-48.html] BDA1.052 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-52.html] | SW_v19#03 p.090 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_3] MHMD1.060-061 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=85] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @unity in diversity, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||
| AB09660 | 80 | Persian | تلغراف شما رسید مضامین که منبعث از حیات وجدانی و انجذابات روحانی بود سرور و | Your telegram was received, and its contents, which sprang from the life of conscience and spiritual attractions, brought joy [3.5s] | INBA84:367a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=370] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @unity in diversity | |||||||||
| AB09925 | 70 | Persian | ای ثابت بر میثاق چون نیر آفاق اشراق بر شرق و غرب نمود تفاوت و امتیاز ترک و | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! The moment that He Who is the Day-Star of the world shone forth above the East and the West... ...When the Orb of regions shone forth upon the Orient and Occident, the distinction and differentiation between Turk and Tajik | INBA85:025b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=27] | MKT2.288a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-288.html] AKHA_110BE #12 p.02 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] PYB#042 p.01 MJMT.016 | DAS.1913-12-28x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=99] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West | |||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-20.html] | MHMD2.014 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West | |||||||
| AB05259 | 150 | Persian | ای متوجه بملکوت ابهی وقت یگانگی و اتحاد است و هنگام الفت قلوب و وداد مظاهر | O thou who hast turned thy face to the Abha Kingdom! Now is the time for oneness and unity, the time for love and harmony among the hearts | MKT8.133b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-133.html] AKHA_131BE #19 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_133BE #19 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] | ADMS#179 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab05259/] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @suffering and imprisonment | ||||||||
| ABU0957 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 320 | The unity and harmony of the beloved of God constitute the most important affair. Unity and Harmony represent the magnet | AHF.012-013 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/a-heavenly-feast] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @growth of the Cause | ||||||||||
| AB00421 | 600 | mixed | یا احباء الرحمن و امناء الاسرار لعمر الحق ان قلزم المیثاق قد هاج و ماج و | O beloved ones of the All-Merciful and trustees of divine mysteries! By the life of Truth, verily the ocean of the Covenant hath surged and billowed [3.5s] | INBA59:116 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=118] | MKT2.215 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-215.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @love and unity, @Greatest Name, @wisdom [hikmat] | ||||||||
| AB01568 | 310 | mixed | Light of the World | ای ثابتان ای راسخان نور هویت چون در افق احدیت طلوع و اشراق نمود تجلی وحدانیت | O ye who are staunch! O ye who stand firm! When the light of Divine Essence dawned above the horizon of Singleness, the splendour of His Oneness shone forth | INBA72:052 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=55] | NURA#74 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#053 p.059 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-62.html] | LOTW#74 [http://www.bahai.org/r/234197671] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Hands of the Cause, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | ||||||
| AB02163 | 780 | mixed | یا ابی الفضائل دستخطهای مفصله و نامه های مکمل در سفر نیورک از گرین عکا | O thou Father of Virtues! The detailed manuscripts and complete letters from the journey to New York emanate from Green Akka [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0442 [http://www.bahai.org/r/584905841] MMK6#403x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=296] MSHR2.028x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-30.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @contention and conflict, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @consolation and comfort, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| ABU1721 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-06-11 | 180 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | It is my hope that the meetings of the Baha'i Assembly in New York shall become like | LOG#0581x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n581] PUP#064 (p.183) [http://www.bahai.org/r/624694312] SW_v03#10 p.014-015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] PN_1912 p022 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=22] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @consultation, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @independent investigation of truth; reality | |||||||||
| AB02686 | 230 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید از انقلاب ایران مرقوم نموده بودید تا شرق و غرب | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received. Thou hadst written about the upheavals in Iran, that East and West [3.5s] | MSHR5.370-371 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=366] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @non-participation in politics, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||
| AB00027 | 1080 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای یاران رحمانی من در حالتیکه دریای امتحان پرموج گشته و موج بلایا باوج رسیده | O my spiritual loved ones! At a time when an ocean of trials and tribulations was surging up and flinging its waves to the heavens | MKT4.123 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-123.html] MNMK#094 p.172 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-170.html] MMK1#200 p.234 [https://www.bahai.org/r/294705262] MILAN.138 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/138.jpg] KHSH10.03x [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_10] YHA1.098 (1.199) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=100] NJB_v01#14 p.001x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_14] | SWAB#200 [http://www.bahai.org/r/415208501] TAB.035-038 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA35] BWF.356-357x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | N. Best & A. Vedovi [https://youtu.be/SDKTOJdUXXg] D. & R. Saberi [https://youtu.be/8JJ-pfKIBF4] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @compassion; kindness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love and unity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion | ||||||
| AB09561 | 80 | Persian | ای همدم محترم بر پیمان ثابت بمان و محکم و استوار شو یاد یاران کن و همدم | O esteemed companion! Stand firm in the Covenant and be thou steadfast and immovable. Remember the friends and companions [3.5s] | YARP2.682 p.459 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-465.html] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @compassion; kindness, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @race unity; racial issues | |||||||||
| ABU0961 | Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-04-22 | 320 | You are all welcome. I am very glad to see you all... For six thousand years misunderstandings have kept humanity divided. | BSTW#336a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=52] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @unity in diversity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @The Holy Spirit | ||||||||||
| AB06664 | 120 | Persian | ای بنده مبتهل الی الله از خدا بخواه که برضای جمال مبارک موفق و موید گردی و | O thou servant who is supplicating God! Beseech God that you may attain the good pleasure of the Blessed Beauty | MKT8.041b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-41.html] | NYR#106 and 161 [https://www.nayriz.org/template.php?pageName=illuminatedTablets] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @unity in diversity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @material world a reflection of the spiritual | ||||||||
| AB05632 | 140 | mixed | ای جذوه افروخته بنار عشق الهی در کل احیان مذکور و مشهور و مشهود و در دل یاران | O flame kindled with the fire of divine love! At all times art thou remembered, renowned and witnessed in the hearts of the friends [3.5s] | MKT9.112b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=56] TABN.250a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=250] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| AB05864 | 140 | Persian | ای یاران الهی جمال قدم و اسم اعظم با ید بیضاای از صلح و صفا در بین اهل عالم | O divine friends! The Ancient Beauty and the Most Great Name must [appear] with a white hand of peace and tranquility amongst the people of the world [3.5s] | INBA13:274 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=137] | MMK4#072 p.079 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-82.html] SFI12.022 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_12.pdf#page=22] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment, @war and peace | ||||||||
| ABU1771 | Words to departing pilgrims, spoken on 1914-01-20 | 170 | Do ye not weep! The Lord is your comfort. The glory of the King of Kings shall rest upon you. Abide eternally in the realm of joy | DAS.1914-01-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=7] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @unity in diversity, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @praise and encouragement, @consolation and comfort | ||||||||||
| AB07725 | 110 | O thou lamp ignited by the fire of the Love of God! I ask God to make thee a sign of love, standard of agreement, means of union and harmony | TAB.057 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57] BLO_PT#052.01 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_letters_louise_waite] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action | |||||||||||
| AB01566 | 310 | O thou who art firm in the Covenant and the Testament! Thy letters dated March 22nd and 29th | SW_v10#12 p.230 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_12] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @business; financial; property matters, @unity in diversity, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||||
| ABU0674 | Words spoken on 1914-06-29 in Haifa | 430 | Today, the friends of God are the illuminated candles of the world of humanity | SW_v09#11 p.130 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_11] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @being a source of light; guidance, @spiritual transformation, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | ||||||||||
| AB12287 | 190 | Persian | ای منادی ملکوت الله نامه شما رسید هر امر عظیمی در عالم وجود مرکزی دارد مثلا | O summoner to the Kingdom of God! Thy letter hath arrived. Every great affair in the world of existence hath a focal point. In the solar system, for instance | BBBD.541-543 | BBBD.543-544 | @unity; oneness of humanity, @Baha'u'llah, @blind imitation [taqlid] | ||||||||
| AB02996 | 220 | Persian | Attitude of Bahá'ís towards Persian Politics | ای یار مهربان نامه سلخ ربیع الاول سنه ۱۳۲۷ وصول یافت و بر مضمون اطلاع حاصل | O loving friend! Thy letter dated the last day of Rabi'u'l-Avval 1327 was received and its contents were noted [3.5s]... ...As to the matter of our ill-wishers amongst the Yahya'ís [i.e. the Azalís], who accuse the Friends [i.e. the Baha'ís] of sympathy with the Court [or Government, Dawlat], it is certain that the truth of the case will become plain and evident | INBA85:412 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=414] | BRL_DAK#0198 [http://www.bahai.org/r/985540474] YIA.337 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=333] | CHU.067b [https://archive.org/stream/compilationofhol00bahrich#page/67/mode/2up] BLO_PT#011bx [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_attitude_persian_politics] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @non-participation in politics | ||||||
| AB01652 | 310 | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter was received and its contents imparted the utmost of gladness | SW_v10#01 p.009-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_1] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @praise and encouragement | |||||||||||
| AB01814 | 290 | Persian | ای ثابتان بر پیمان نامه ای بجمیع یاران آن دیار چندی پیش نگاشته و فرستاده شد | O ye who stand firm in the Covenant! A letter was dispatched, some time since, unto all the friends in those regions [3.5s] | AKHA_128BE #13 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @importance of community building, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @love and unity | |||||||||
| AB12406 | 140 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه ۲۵ جمادی الاول واصل گردید و به موجب خواهش شما قبوضات | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter dated 25 Jamádi'l-Avval was received, and in accordance with thy request, the receipts [3.5s] | BSHI.086-087 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=86] | @unity; oneness of humanity, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB08649 | 90 | ...Thy letter was received. From its contents it became evident that, praise be to God, the highest hope of the believers of Boston | DAS.1914-04-17 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=33] | @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||||
| AB05944 | 140 | Arabic | یا اماء الرحمن استبشرن ببشارات الله و اشکرن ربکن بما جمعکن فی محفل نورانی | O ye maidservants of the Merciful! Be rejoiced with the glad-tidings of God and thank your Lord for that He assembled you | BRL_DAK#0705 [https://www.bahai.org/r/697122472] | BRL_ATE#188x [https://www.bahai.org/r/881006884] TAB.031-032 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA31] | @unity of thought and belief, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @praise and encouragement, @living waters; water of life, @the power of words; of speech, @love of God | ||||||||
| AB06281 | 130 | O thou beloved maidservant of God! Thy letter was received. Its sweet contents imparted the utmost of rejoicing | DAS.1914-02-10 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=65] | @unity of thought and belief, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | |||||||||||
| AB07804 | 110 | Persian | یا من ثبت و نبت و اراد الخیر لاحباء الله آنچه مسطور بود ملحوظ افتاد و آنچه | O thou who art steadfast and rooted, who desireth the well-being of the loved ones of God! That which was written hath been noted, and that which [3.5s] | INBA17:255 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=257] | BRL_DAK#0938 [https://www.bahai.org/r/928791249] MKT8.224b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-224.html] | @unity of thought and belief, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | ||||||||
| ABU1306 | Words spoken on 1915-07-14 in Haifa | 240 | Persian | خوب گفته. اروپا از اینجهت ترقی کرده زیرا کارشان متفرق نیست. مثلاً ساعت سازی، یکی فقط عقربه می سازد | Blessed are they who say: Europe hath advanced on this account - that their labors are not scattered. Consider how in the craft of watchmaking, one fashioneth but the hands alone [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-07-14 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @unity of thought and belief, @excellence; distinction | ||||||||
| AB01397 | 330 | mixed | ای دوست حقیقی و یار مهربان آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید فی الحقیقه | O true friend and kind companion! What thou didst write was noted. In truth [3.5s] | PYB#063 p.03 ANDA#71 p.31 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-71] | @unity of thought and belief, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||||||
| ABU1386 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-21 | 230 | Yes. It would have had a marked effect. God willing this excellent idea will become realized, for such representatives and senators would concentrate all their energies | DAS.1915-05-21 | @unity of governments; political unity, @universal peace; world unity, @universality of the Cause, @war and peace, @promotion of commerce and industry | ||||||||||
| ABU0382 | Interview with F. R. Hinkle of the Sacramento Union, 1912-10-25 | 640 | We have come here to this city to be your guests. We are Bahá’ís. We have come as travelers to see the various places in this country. | ECN.903 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=903] | @unity of governments; political unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @supreme tribunal, @universal language, @harmony of science and religion, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @religion as source of love and unity, @universal education, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @independent investigation of truth; reality | ||||||||||
| ABU0676 | Public address given on 1912-04-16 | 430 | Persian | Promulgation of Universal Peace | خوب مجلسی است قوای مادیه نمیتواند این گونه نفوس را | Souls from the East and from the West have been brought to this spot... Christ appeared in this world nineteen hundred years ago | KHF.192 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=195] KHAB.244 (255) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.027 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-29.html] NJB_v04#10 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_10] BDA1.036n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-36.html] | PUP#008 (p.018-020) [http://www.bahai.org/r/994290821] SW_v03#10 p.006-007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] BSTW#209 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_201-250.pdf#page=12] | MHMD1.045 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=70] | @unity of governments; political unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Christ; Christianity, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @universal peace; world unity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||
| AB04381 | 170 | Persian | ای دوستان عزیز الحمد لله در پناه صون حمایت الهی جمیع محفوظ و در نهایت روح و | O dear friends! Praise be to God, we are all well and safe under the shelter of divine patronage and protection. | BBBD.350 | BBBD.351-352 SW_v06#13 p.101-102 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_13] | @unity of governments; political unity, @spiritual transformation, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | ||||||||
| AB00496 | 560 | mixed | ای منادی میثاق نامه رسید و مضمون معلوم گردید در وقتیکه در بقعه مبارکه بودید | O herald of the Covenant! Thy letter arrived and its purport was made known. While thou wert in the Sacred Shrine [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0152 [http://www.bahai.org/r/401314720] MMK6#331 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=243] AMK.061-062 YIA.330-331 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=326] | @unity of governments; political unity, @relationship between government and people, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @martyrs and martyrdom, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant | |||||||||
| ABU2497 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-21 | 90 | Yes. We must wait and see how the results of the mighty events which are taking place in these days will shape themselves into concrete facts | DAS.1915-05-21 | @unity of governments; political unity, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||||
| ABU2550 | Words to some American friends, spoken on 1913-05-24 | 80 | America has the capacity of becoming the standard-bearer of international peace. Geographically it is a vast continent, far away from the jealous eyes of the envious neighbors | DAS.1913-05-24 | @unity of governments; political unity, @prayer for peace and unity, @universal peace; world unity | ||||||||||
| AB05628 | 140 | Persian | ای ثابت عهد راسخ میثاق نامه ایکه به آقا سید اسدالله مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه | O thou steadfast in the Covenant, firm in the Testament! The letter thou didst write to Áqá Siyyid Asadu'lláh hath been perused [3.5s] | MKT9.111 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=56] | @unity of governments; political unity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| ABU0048 | Public address given on 1912-10-08 | 1590 | Persian | امشب الحمد لله در کلیسای موحدینم کلیساایکه منسوب بتوحید است لهذا خواستم ذکری از | In all the religions of God there is an exposition concerning unity. What is the basis of this unity? | KHF.110 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=113] KHTB2.280 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-282.html] | BSTW#085 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=89] ECN.280+1037 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=280] | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @transcendence; unknowability of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @love and unity | |||||||
| AB00538 | 540 | mixed | ای ناشر نفحات الله نامه بلیغ سبب سرور گردید مضمون دلالت بر آن مینمود | O spreader of the fragrances of God! Thy eloquent letter brought joy, and its contents indicated that [3.5s]... ...You should always seek to guide prominent people inasmuch as once such a person is regenerated he is likely to bring about the quickening of a thousand souls… All creatures in this contingent world exist through the grace of the Source of Being | BRL_DAK#0434 [http://www.bahai.org/r/437816184] MKT2.139 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-139.html] VUJUD.139.14x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] VUJUD.108x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | COC#1822x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_teaching_prominent_people#1822] VUJUDE.145x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] VUJUDE.174-175x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @spiritual transformation, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization | ||||||||
| ABU0549 | Words to Mon. Richard, spoken on 1913-05-10 | 500 | Persian | حق را بحر و موجودات را امواج و اشباح گویند اما انبیای الهی حق را مقدس از حلول و حدود دانند | He quoted the philosophic apothegms of the Sufi leaders stating that the Sufi idea about God is pantheistic | DAS.1913-05-10 | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @pantheism, @symbolism, @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator | ||||||||
| ABU0022 | Words spoken at High school auditorium in Berkeley, 1912-10-09 | 2050 | Inasmuch as those who are present are especially interested in that which constitutes truth, I shall take truth for my subject this evening. | ECN.287+1053 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=287] | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @harmony of science and religion, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @unity; oneness of humanity, @man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @Manifestation of God as sun | ||||||||||
| ABU1567 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 200 | The ancient philosophers of Greece, Persia, and Egypt believed that God manifested in material things His final and supreme Reality. | AELT.160-161 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=207] | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization | ||||||||||
| AB00062 | Some Answered Questions #082 The Unity of Existence | 1340 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | بدانکه این مسألهٴ وحدة الوجود قدیم است تخصیص بثیاسفه و صوفیه ندارد | Know that the idea of the unity of existence is ancient and is not restricted to the Theosophists and the Sufis alone. | MFD#82 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-205.html] OOL.C022.82 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-5-08-fa] | SAQ#82 [http://www.bahai.org/r/137103381] | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @God as immanent vs. transcendent reality, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God | ||||||
| AB00153 | Commentary on the Unity of Existence | 920 | mixed | Tablet on the Unity of Existence (Sharh Wahdat al-Wujúd); Abdu'l-Bahá's Response to the Doctrine of the Unity of Existence | Commentary on the Unity of Existence | صنادید متصوفه که تاسیس عقیده وحدت الوجود نموده اند مرادشان از آن وجود وجود | Those pre-eminent Sufis who founded the doctrine of the “unity of existence” never intended by this term the universally predicated existence | MKT3.354 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-354.html] MNMK#148 p.274 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-272.html] DWNP_v1#06 p.001-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] | BLO_PT#164 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_sharh_wahdat_wujud] | @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as sun, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will | |||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-32.html] | 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 | |||||||
| ABU1575 | Words at a wedding, spoken on 1920-11-18 | 200 | This is a very happy evening, one of joy. In one respect it is a wedding night | PN_1920 p082 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=82] PN_1920_heh p023 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh.pdf#page=23] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||||
| ABU2201 | Words spoken at Sacy home in Paris, 1911-10-29 | 120 | I am from a far away country and here in Paris, at your table, I find in union, love and happiness, Persians, Arabs, Turks and French | SW_v02#14 p.015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @war and peace, @oneness; unity of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God | ||||||||||
| ABU0120 | Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-05-11 | 1130 | Persian | Promulgation of Universal Peace | بشیکاغو و واشنگتن رفتیم و مراجعت نمودیم بسسیار خوش گذشت زیرا اهالی امریک همه | It is only three weeks that we have been away from the New York friends | BDA1.079.x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-79.html] | PUP#045 (p.111-113) [http://www.bahai.org/r/622788507] SW_v03#10 p.011-012 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] SW_v19#05 p.142 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_5] MHMD1.088 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=113] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @race unity; racial issues, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||
| AB08659 | 180 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید ولی مشاغلی که دیده بودی و علاوه بر ان ضعف | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received, but owing to the manifold occupations thou hadst witnessed, and moreover the weakness [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0337 [http://www.bahai.org/r/749847609] HDQI.170x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-175.html] ANDA#03 p.49x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-3] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||||
| AB04289 | 170 | Persian | ای بنده حق مکتوبت رسید محفلی که در کمال اتحاد در شب جمعه در منزل مس تمپسون | O thou servant of the True One! Thy letter was received. The meeting ... which was arranged with the utmost union in the studio | BRL_DAK#0680 [https://www.bahai.org/r/611275507] | TAB.553 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA553] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world | ||||||||
| ABU1124 | 280 | Persian | پیش عقلا و اصحاب افکار و ارباب معرف مسلم است که عالم انسانی در پراکندگی یعنی تفرق سبب ذلشان است سبب بی سر و سامانیشان است سبب نادانیشان است | Before all those possessed of intellect, the bearers of thought and the lords of wisdom, manifest it is that the world of humanity in its dispersion - that is to say, its disunity - is the cause of its abasement, the cause of its disarray, the cause of its ignorance [3.5s] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @religion as source of love and unity | ||||||||||
| ABU1199 | 270 | History is a record of incessant wars. There is not a spot on the globe that has not been crimsoned with the blood of men | ADP.060-062 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60] | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @growth of the Cause, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @war and peace | |||||||||||
| ABU2336 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-30 | 100 | Persian | فردا ما از استتکارت حرکت خواهیم کرد الحمدلله باینجا آمدیم شماها را ملاقات نمودیم | I will leave Stuttgart tomorrow. Praised be God that we came here and met with you all, and that sentiments of the utmost spiritual affection | BDA2.272 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-280.html] | DAS.1913-04-30 MHMD2.356-357 | @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West | |||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway] BLO_PN#022 | @unity in diversity, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @East and West; communication between East and West | ||||||||||
| ABU1085 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-02 | 290 | In this world the people are not of one kind. Their comprehension differs; their thoughts vary... For example, in the members of the body there exist differences; the eye is not the ear | PN_1909 p005 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=5] PN_1909 p076 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=76] PN_1909C p074 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=74] | @unity in diversity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | ||||||||||
| AB12315 | 170 | O you two steadfast ones in the Covenant! Your letter was received. It brought me the glad tidings of the love and harmony that reign among the friends of God | BBBD.436 | @unity in diversity, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @race unity; racial issues, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice | |||||||||||
| AB03049 | 220 | Arabic | هو الموسس و المولف بین القلوب لک الحمد یا الهی بما الفت بانفاس عبدک | He is the Founder and the Unifier of hearts! Praise be unto Thee, my Lord, for having united through the breaths of Thy servant [3.5s] | INBA88:218b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=252] | @unity in diversity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| AB06826 | 120 | Persian | ای عاشق حقیقت نامه رسید و مضمون مفهوم گردید بدان رایت سلام بلند است و کوکب | O lover of truth! Thy letter hath arrived and its contents have become clear. Know thou that the banner of peace is raised aloft and the star [3.5s] | MMK3#121 p.083 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-85.html] | @unity in diversity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||
| AB02783 | 230 | Persian | ای یاران الهی جناب معاون التجار نامه نگاشته و چندان از یاران همدان ستایش | O divine friends! Jinab-i-Mu'avin at-Tujjar hath written a letter and hath greatly praised the friends of Hamadan [3.5s] | TAH.021a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=25] TAH.324 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=328] | @unity in diversity, @spiritual transformation, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @love and unity, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB03938 | 180 | mixed | ای بنده پروردگار نفحه مشکبار از نافه اسرار بر جمیع اقطار نثار گشت مشام ابرار | O servant of the Lord! The musk-laden breeze from the hidden treasury of mysteries hath been wafted upon all regions and the senses of the righteous [3.5s] | MMK2#150 p.113 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-115.html] MMK6#556 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=406] | @unity in diversity, @spiritual transformation, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||||
| ABU1011 | Words to Arthur Agnew et al, spoken on 1907-04-15 | 310 | Not only in remembrance of the Council Board but also of all the believers. And when you go to visit the Holy Tomb you must remember all the believers. | TTAG.019-020 [https://bahai-library.com/agnew_table_talks_acca] BLO_PN#101 [https://bahai-library.com/agnew_table_talks_acca] | @unity in diversity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | ||||||||||
| ABU1017 | Words to Waite, Harrison et al, spoken on 1909-10-11 | 310 | This is a great day - greater than you can comprehend - and you ought to appreciate it... Opposition but makes the Cause grow stronger. It is like the earth - the more it is ploughed, the more fruitful it becomes. | PN_1909B p049 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909B.pdf#page=49] PN_1909C p005 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=5] PN_1909E p023 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909E.pdf#page=23] PN_unsorted p155 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=155] | @unity in diversity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @rejection, opposition and persecution | ||||||||||
| ABU1197 | Words spoken on 1910-05-13 | 270 | Among the human race, the bonds of and means for love are numerous, for man cannot live without it | SW_v01#08 p.005-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_8] SW_v08#10 p.127 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] | @unity in diversity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @love of God | ||||||||||
| AB02014 | 280 | You have asked concerning Consultation, to the practice of which we are all commanded. The cardinal idea of consultation is based upon the principle that unanimous counsels of several persons is weightier than the opinion of a single individual. | DAS.1914-03-18 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=64] | @unity in diversity, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @consultation | |||||||||||
| AB04852 | 160 | Persian | ای منجذب بندای الهی آنچه مرقوم نموده بودی دلیل سلوک بر سبیل بود و برهان الطاف | O thou who art attracted to the divine Call! That which thou didst write was evidence of thy conduct upon the path and proof of heavenly favours [3.5s] | INBA17:084 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=86] | MKT9.189 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=95] | @unity in diversity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | ||||||||
| AB02916 | 220 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | بجان و دل بکوشيد تا ميان سياه و سفيد الفت اندازيد و وحدت بهائيرا اثبات کنيد | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letters were received. Verily, thou | MMK1#075 p.109x [https://www.bahai.org/r/363726049] | SWAB#075x [http://www.bahai.org/r/826244360] SW_v11#05 p.092 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_5] | @unity in diversity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @race unity; racial issues | |||||||
| ABU0256 | Public address given on 1912-11-10 | 800 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | This is a beautiful assembly. I am very happy that white and black are together | PUP#126 (p.425-428) [http://www.bahai.org/r/712115718] SW_v06#13 p.099+102-103 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_13] SW_v12#05 p.108 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_5] STAB#005x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=5] | @unity in diversity, @race unity; racial issues, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @stories; anecdotes | |||||||||
| ABU0491 | Beauty and Harmony in Diversity: Words spoken on 1911-10-28 in Paris | 550 | Paris Talks | The Creator of all is One God. From this same God all creation sprang into existence | PT#15 p.043 [http://www.bahai.org/r/888152361] | @unity in diversity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @unity of thought and belief, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @unity; oneness of humanity, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of | |||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=32] SUR.228 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=235] BLO_PN#001 [https://bahai-library.com/ali-khan_pilgrim-notes_1906] | @unity in diversity, @predictions and prophecies, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | ||||||||||
| AB02787 | 230 | Persian | ای یاران روحانی من در عبودیت آستان الهی آرزوی شریک و سهیم مینمودم الحمد لله | O My spiritual friends! In servitude at the Divine Threshold I yearned for partners and fellow-sharers. Praise be to God [3.5s] | YARP2.551 p.392 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-398.html] | @unity in diversity, @prayer for the departed, @praise and encouragement, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | |||||||||
| AB01166 | 360 | mixed | ای احبای الهی از آثار فضل و الطاف الهی و خصائص بل اعظم دلائل ظهور ایات قدرت | O ye beloved of God! Among the evidences of divine grace and favor, and the characteristics—nay, rather, the most mighty proofs of the appearance of the signs of power [3.5s] | AKHA_116BE #11-12 p.00b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] DUR1.028 | @unity in diversity, @prayer for firmness in the Covenant, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| ABU0429 | Words spoken at the house of Consul A. in Haifa, July 1909 | 600 | Mein Freund, darauf könnte man mit Ja und Nein antworten, nämlich: die gesegnete Schönheit (Bahá'u'lláh) hat wohl die elementaren Moralgesetze des heiligen Propheten Musa (Moses) | SDW v12#03 p.027-028 [https://file.bahai.media/5/51/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_12_Nr_03.pdf#page=5] | @unity in diversity, @praise of Eastern values; culture, @East and West; communication between East and West, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @critique of Western values; culture | ||||||||||
| ABU0762 | Words to Wilson, Engelhorn, Stewart, Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23 | 390 | In these days the Jews have extracted certain meanings from their books--that eight years later the Promised One would manifest Himself. | PN_1909 p088 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=88] | @unity in diversity, @power of the Manifestation of God, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||||
| ABU1601 | Words spoken on 1913-04-16 in Budapest | 190 | Persian | بعضی از تعالیمشان باین امر نزدیک است ولی امرالله جامع جمیع مسائل الهیه است | Some of their [the Theosophists'] principles are similar to the teachings of this Cause. The Cause of God, however, is the embodiment of every divine principle | BDA2.242 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-250.html] | MHMD2.313-314 | @unity in diversity, @power of prayer, @pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation, @universality of the Cause | |||||||
| ABU1866 | Words to George Winterburn et al, spoken on 1904-02-06 | 160 | The existent world needs a uniting power to connect nations. There are various uniting powers in the world. One is patriotism | PN_1904 p002 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=2] PN_1904 p033 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=33] TTAW.003-004 [https://bahai-library.com/winterburn_table_talks] BLO_PN#102 [https://bahai-library.com/winterburn_table_talks] | @unity in diversity, @power of love, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||||
| AB08994 | 90 | O thou who art baptized by the Spirit of the Love of God! Be rejoiced with this great bounty and gladdened by this mighty gift! | TAB.414 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA414] | @unity in diversity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | |||||||||||
| AB03402 | 200 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان یار با وفا آقا عزیزالله خان ببقعه مبارکه ذهابا و ایابا وارد | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant, faithful friend, Aqa `Azízullah Khan! Thou hast come and gone to and from the blessed Sanctuary [3.5s] | MKT4.047 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-47.html] YMM.055 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=63] | @unity in diversity, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB03484 | 200 | Persian | ای منتسبان درگاه احدیت جناب آقا محمد صادق نامه مختصر نگاشت ولی رجای مفصل نمود | O ye who are affiliated with the Threshold of Divine Oneness! Jinab-i-Aqa Muhammad Sadiq penned a brief letter, yet made therein an extensive plea [3.5s] | MKT8.145b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-145.html] | @unity in diversity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| AB08219 | 100 | Persian | ای مغنی در گلستان عرفان در این اوقات آنچه سبب اعظم ارتفاع امرالله و امتناع | O thou minstrel in the garden of mystic knowledge! In these days, that which is the supreme cause for the exaltation of God's Cause and its triumph [3.5s] | MMK2#184 p.132 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-134.html] AKHA_131BE #09 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] PYB#096 p.03 | @unity in diversity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||
| AB00690 | 470 | O sons and daughters of the Kingdom: Your letter of congratulation was received. Its contents show steadfastness and attraction to the Kingdom | DAS.1914-01-16 | @unity in diversity, @love of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @growth of the Cause | |||||||||||
| AB03752 | 190 | The advent of the prophets and the revelation of the Holy Books is intended to create love between souls | TAB.505 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA505] BWF.364-364x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] | @unity in diversity, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||||
| AB11540 | 20 | ...The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony | ADJ.038x [http://www.bahai.org/r/906573525] LOG#1792x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1792] | @unity in diversity, @love and unity, @music and singing | |||||||||||
| AB09674 | 80 | mixed | اگر نفسی للّه خاضع شود از برای دوستان الهی آن خضوع فی الحقیقه به حق راجع چه که ناظر به ایمان اوست | If a soul showeth humility for the sake of God before the friends of God, that humility doth in truth return unto God, inasmuch as it relateth to his faith [3.5s] | AVK3.095.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-99.html] | @unity in diversity, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @high station of the true believer, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB09927 | 500 | mixed | ای ثابت پیمان تحریر اخیر شما رسید و از مژده اجتماع احباء کلیمی و فرقانی در یک | O steadfast one in the Covenant! Thy recent letter was received, and the glad tidings of the gathering of the Jewish and Muslim friends in one [3.5s] | INBA85:157b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=159] | BRL_DAK#0058 [http://www.bahai.org/r/410006321] AVK2.222.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-223.html] | @unity in diversity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @martyrs and martyrdom, @House of Justice | ||||||||
| AB12060 | 420 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما که بتاریخ ۵ ذی حجه ۳۹ بود رسید مرقوم نموده بودید که | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter dated the 5th of Dhi'l-Hajjih 1339 was received, wherein thou hadst written that [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0601 [https://www.bahai.org/r/036649002] RMT.184-185 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] AMIN.213x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf] | @unity in diversity, @growth of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB06937 | 120 | mixed | ای ناطق بذکر الهی هر چند بظاهر در بادیه هجران و وادی حرمان حیران و سرگردانی | O thou who speaketh in remembrance of God! Though to outward seeming thou art bewildered and wandering in the wilderness of separation and the valley of deprivation [3.5s] | MMK6#603 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=440] | @unity in diversity, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @Manifestation of God as sun | |||||||||
| ABU2135 | Words spoken on 1912-12-29 in London | 120 | Persian | این اختلاف بر دو قسم است قسمی اختلاف اصلی و خلقی است و آن مانع ظهور اتحاد و الفت عمومی نیست | This diversity is of two kinds. The first kind of diversity involves innate and temperamental differences, which do not preclude the establishment of unviersal concord | BDA2.048 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-56.html] | MHMD2.058 | @unity in diversity, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @education of children; moral education | |||||||
| ABU0456 | Public address given on 1912-04-17 | 570 | Persian | Promulgation of Universal Peace | در بعضی از کتب الهی مذکور است که چون شمس حقیقت طلوع نماید | In the Holy Books it is recorded that when the Sun of Truth dawns it will | SFI07.025 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_07.pdf#page=25] BDA1.037n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-37.html] | PUP#010 (p.023-025) [http://www.bahai.org/r/404962624] SW_v03#10 p.009-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] SW_v19#02 p.055 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_2] | MHMD1.046 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=71] | @unity in diversity, @differences in human capacity, @spiritual transformation, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||
| ABU0056 | Address to crew of the Cedric, spoken on 1912-03-27 | 1500 | Persian | حمد خدا را که در این محفل اجناس مختلفه جمعند در اینجا ما اهل شرقیم و شما اهل غرب همین الفت و اجتماع | Praise be to God that in this gathering diverse peoples are assembled. Here, we are from the East and you are from the West, yet this very fellowship and unity [3.5s] | KHF.234 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=237] KHAB.230 (239) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.001 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-3.html] NJB_v04#17 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_17] | BDA1.014 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-14.html] MHMD1.020 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=45] | @unity in diversity, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @war and peace, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @The Holy Spirit, @harmony of science and religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @equality of men and women, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||
| ABU0854 | Words spoken on 1913-01-25 in Paris | 350 | Persian | انسان عاقل دفع فاسد بافسد نکند ایرانی که بهیچوجه استعداد نداشت | The wise one does not counter the corrupt with a more corrupt person. In their desire to counter foreign encroachment | AVK2.234.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-235.html] BDA2.104 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-112.html] | MHMD2.127-128 | @unity in diversity, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||
| AB05397 | 150 | Arabic | ایها الحبیب الروحانی و الانیس الرحمانی ایدک الله و شیدک قد ذهبتم و القلب | O spiritual beloved and heavenly companion! May God fortify and strengthen thee! Thou hast departed, and my heart [3.5s] | INBA59:206a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=208] | MJZ.047 | @unity in diversity, @consolation and comfort, @permission for visit; pilgrimage | ||||||||
| AB08577 | 90 | Persian | ای بنده پروردگار ملاحظه نما حکمت بالغه الهی را که تو از مهد هندی و ما از | O servant of the Lord! Consider thou the consummate wisdom of God, that thou art from the cradle of India and we from [3.5s] | INBA13:186a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=93] | DWNP_v6#04 p.007a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] | @unity in diversity, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart | ||||||||
| AB00446 | 590 | mixed | Tablet addressed to the Bahá'ís of Mosul | Tablet addressed to the Bahá’ís of Mosul | هیکل عالم از مصدر ایجاد چون صورت و هیئت آدم موجود شده و فی الحقیقه مرآت | As preordained by the Fountain-head of Creation, the temple of the world hath been fashioned after the image and likeness of the human body. | INBA57:100 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v057/?page=102] Ghazi3072.143-149 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tablets_3072.pdf] | BRL_DAK#0378 [http://www.bahai.org/r/218144858] BRL_HUQUQP#023 [http://www.bahai.org/r/765760836] MKT5.129 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-130.html] | BRL_HUQUQ#023 [http://www.bahai.org/r/949063656] COC.p.071x COC#1159 | @unity in diversity, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @need for cooperation; solitary existence not possible, @law of Huququ'llah, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar] | |||||
| AB02102 | 460 | mixed | ای منادی پیمان از عدم فرصت جواب نامه مختصر مرقوم می گردد مجلس درس تبلیغ نهایت | O Herald of the Covenant! Due to lack of time, a brief reply is being penned to thy letter. The class for the teaching of the Cause hath attained [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0807 [https://www.bahai.org/r/480484758] MSHR3.180x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-182.html] | @unity in diversity, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @non-participation in politics, @justice and mercy, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @being a source of light; guidance | |||||||||
| AB12532 | 110 | O benevolent one of the world of humanity! Praise be to God that you possess a pure heart, which is delighted by the glad tidings of God | BBBD.548-549 | @unity in diversity, @blind imitation [taqlid], @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @praise and encouragement, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction | |||||||||||
| AB12184 | 290 | Arabic | لک الحمد یا الهی بما اشرقت شمس الحقیقه من الافق المبین و تلوح علی هیاکل | Praise be unto Thee, O my God, for that the Sun of Truth hath shone forth from the manifest horizon and doth illumine the temples of being [3.5s] | INBA85:331 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=333] | @unity in diversity | |||||||||
| AB00298 | 690 | Arabic | حمدا لمن خلق حقیقه نورانیه و هویه رحمانیه و کینونه روحانیه و جوهره ربانیه | Praise be to Him Who hath created the luminous reality, the merciful essence, the spiritual being, and the divine substance [3.5s] | INBA13:390 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=195] INBA55:219 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=221] INBA59:143 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=145] INBA88:045b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=79] UMich962.034-036 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.012-015 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf] | BRL_DAK#0759 [https://www.bahai.org/r/292550123] MMK6#284 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=209] ASAT3.126x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=65] AVK2.202x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-203.html] YMM.397 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=405] YMM.471 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=479] | @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @station of the Manifestation of God | ||||||||
| AB00345 | Some Answered Questions #038 The Three Stations of the Divine Manifestations | 640 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | بدان که مظاهر مقدسه را هرچند مقامات و کمالات غیر متناهیه است ولی کلیهء مراتب ایشان سه رتبه است | Know that, while the Manifestations of God possess infinite virtues and perfections, they occupy only three stations | MFD#38 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-110.html] DWNP_v2#05 p.038-040 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] OOL.C022.38 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-03-fa] | SAQ#38 [http://www.bahai.org/r/601291491] | @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @physical limitations of the Manifestation of God, @Word of God sanctified from time and place | ||||||
| AB10488 | 60 | Persian | ای خدابخش نخستین بخشش ایزد دانا فرهنگ و خرد آسمانی و هوش و دانش یزدانیست و | O Khudabakhsh! The first bestowal of the all-knowing Lord is heavenly culture and divine wisdom, celestial intelligence and godly knowledge [3.5s] | YARP2.570 p.406 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-412.html] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @words vs deeds | |||||||||
| ABU2610 | Words to Mary Hanford Ford et al around 1911-10-25 | 80 | I am very unhappy to see how wicked and uncivilized human beings can be... See what a slight thing will shut off our physical sight, so will a slight indiscretion, a cross word, an adverse criticism shut off the delicate spiritual sight. | SW_v08#11 p.139x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_11] PN_1911 p019 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=19] PN_1911 p024 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=24] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration | ||||||||||
| ABU0228 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-10-16 | 860 | Persian | الحمد لله در خانهٴ مسس گودال و مسس کوپر در نهایت محبت مجتمعیم هر مائده ئی موجود و مهیا قلوب در نهایت مودت و صفا | Praise be to God! You are the guests of Mrs. Goodall. With the utmost love has she prepared this feast, and every kind of food is before you. The effulgence of the mercy of Baha’u’llah is resplendent. | BDA1.315.15x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-315.html] | SW_v04#12 p.203-204+209 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_12] MHMD1.333x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=358] MAB.054-057x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=79] ECN.150+582+991 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=150] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | |||||||
| AB02568 | 240 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای صاحب دل بینا هر چند بصر جسمانی مفقود ولی الحمد لله بصیرت قلب موجود دل | O thou possessor of a seeing heart! Although, materially speaking, thou art destitute of the physical sight | MKT3.099 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-99.html] MMK1#018 p.035 [https://www.bahai.org/r/379573507] | SWAB#018 [http://www.bahai.org/r/948472530] JWTA.031-032 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze] SW_v10#02 p.017-018 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_2] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @call to action | |||||||
| AB10100 | 70 | Persian | ای منیر اجسام منیره بر دو قسمند یکی مستفیض از غیر که نورانیت او ایت مستودعیست | O Munir! Luminous bodies are of two kinds: one deriveth its radiance from another, its light being but a borrowed illumination [3.5s] | AYBY.440 #171 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-449.html] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge | |||||||||
| AB12088 | 80 | Trk | سوگلی یار عزیزم قریحه موهبت صریحه عاشقانه لرندن صدور ایدن اشعار آبدار شایان | O my cherished and beloved friend! The exquisite and resplendent verses that have flowed forth from thy clear, God-given and loving poetic talent are truly worthy [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0470 [http://www.bahai.org/r/705758688] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1910.pdf#page=2] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @mind as intermediary between soul and body | ||||||||||
| ABU1509 | Words to Wilson, Engelhorn, Stewart, Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23 | 210 | In these days, in the newspapers, very much is said about the North Pole - that Mr Peary has discovered it... We must endeavor to discover the world of humanity and the mysteries hidden in the reality of man. | PN_1909 p093 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=93] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @knowledge; recognition of God, @effort; striving, @knowledge of self | ||||||||||
| ABU1762 | Words spoken in Dec. 1900 | 170 | Nicodemus was a learned man; nevertheless he was one of those to whom Jesus referred when He said, 'Because seeing, they see not | PN_1900 p098 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=98] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @development of capacity and readiness, @Word of God and human limitations, @differences in human capacity, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih] | ||||||||||
| AB00945 | 880 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه مفصل شما با نامه های مختصر جمیع رسید و بنظر دقت... در خصوص احبّای پیتسبرگ مرقوم نموده بودی | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy detailed letter and the brief ones have all been received and attentively perused. | BRL_DAK#0589 [https://www.bahai.org/r/717684296] COMP_COVP#43x [https://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/covenant_compilation_originals.pdf] COMP_PEACEP#25x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/originals_peace_compilation.pdf] MMK4#151 p.162x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-165.html] | BRL_ATE#168 [https://www.bahai.org/r/969757524] BRL_COV#43x [http://www.bahai.org/r/280662839] BRL_PEACE#25x [http://www.bahai.org/r/906918743] COC#0254x COC#1586x BSC.547 #988 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#12 p.234-236 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_12] BSTW#177 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=49] BSTW#268 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=32] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @universal peace; world unity, @firmness in the Covenant, @praise and encouragement, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||
| AB05160 | 150 | mixed | ای چشم بینا انوار عیان از ملکوت یزدان چون مهر رخشان است و شمس افق توحید در | O seeing eye! The lights from the Kingdom of God shine manifest as the resplendent sun, and the Day-Star of the horizon of unity [3.5s] | INBA55:130 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=132] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @consolation and comfort, @transcending the material condition, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||||
| AB11091 | 50 | O thou seeing one! Know thou, verily, God hath preferred the insight to the sight | TAB.604-605 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA604] SW_v07#16 p.151x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] VTRM.018-019 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/visiting_tablets_for_our_recent_martyrs.pdf] | @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight | |||||||||||
| ABU0192 | Public address given on 1912-05-06 | 930 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | This is a very joyous evening, an evidence in itself of the possibility of uniting the East and the West | BDA1.074n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-74.html] | PUP#042 (p.101-103) [http://www.bahai.org/r/814565071] SW_v03#04 p.029+031-032 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4] SW_v13#12 p.324 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] | MHMD1.082 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=107] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @war and peace, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @East and West; communication between East and West, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @oneness; unity of religion | |||||||
| ABU2596 | Words spoken en route to Salt Lake City, 1912-10-27 | 80 | Persian | من بامریکا آمدم تا علم صلح عمومی بلند کنم آمده ام ترویج وحدت عالم انسانی نمایم مقصدم الفت و محبت | I have come to America to raise the standard of universal peace and to promote the unity of mankind. My aim is to create love and harmony among the religions. | BDA1.335.16 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-335.html] | MHMD1.354 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=379] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @universal peace; world unity, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | |||||||
| AB00374 | 620 | Persian | ای منجذب بملکوت الله نامه ای که بتاریخ ۲۲ مای ۱۹۱۹ ارسال نموده بودی رسید از | O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God! Thy letter of 22 May 1919 hath been received [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0754 [https://www.bahai.org/r/476087766] MKT3.331b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-331.html] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @equality of men and women, @transcending the material condition, @universal peace; world unity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @harmony of science and religion | |||||||||
| ABU0275 | Public address given on 1912-04-14 | 770 | Persian | Promulgation of Universal Peace | در این جمع قسیس عبارتی از پولس قدیس ذکر نمود که شما نور را از شیشه های رنگین | I speak from a verse in Corinthians, the substance of which is that though | BRL_DAK#0562 [https://www.bahai.org/r/835585940] MMG2#171 p.197x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-200.html] KHF.056 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=59] KHAB.241 (251) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.016 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-18.html] KHTB3.032 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-34.html] BDA1.033n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-33.html] | PUP#005 (p.011-013) [http://www.bahai.org/r/458482803] SW_v04#01 p.007-008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_1] SW_v03#03 p.005-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3] SW_v14#04 p.117 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_4] SW_v19#02 p.054 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_2] DJT.245-246 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] | MHMD1.043 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=68] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual transformation, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||
| ABU0292 | Public address given on 1913-04-03 | 750 | I came from a distant land. I have travelled twenty thousand miles until I came to you in Stuttgart.... In this age every face must turn to God! | DAS.1913-04-03x SW_v04#04 p.067-069 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_4] SW_v15#01 p.037 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_1] ABCC.381-382x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=411] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @oneness; unity of religion, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha | ||||||||||
| AB02846 | 230 | O ye crying voices in the region of America! Make level the path of the Covenant of God!... I know, verily, that the universal, never ending, eternal | TAB.032-033 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA32] BSC.473 #894x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSTW#276l [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=47] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @call to action | |||||||||||
| ABU2165 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-27 | 120 | Persian | محبت دو نوع است یکی محبتی است عن علیه و یک محبتی بلا علیه مثلا این مردم بسیار | There are two kinds of love. The first love is based on a motive; the second love is motiveless. People, as a general rule love each other, show kindness towards each other but such manifestations of kindliness are based upon ulterior motives | KHH1.260 (1.363) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=291] | KHHE.380 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-11-27 | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @praise and encouragement, @martyrs and martyrdom, @love of God | |||||||
| AB04899 | 160 | mixed | ای یاران ربانی الحمد لله جام سرشار از باده روحانی در دور است و نشئه رحمانی | O divine friends! Praise be to God that the brimming cup of spiritual wine is being passed round, and heavenly rapture prevaileth [3.5s] | MMK2#280 p.201 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-203.html] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @non-participation in politics, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @call to action, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @mystical themes | |||||||||
| ABU0280 | Public address given on 1912-11-07 | 770 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | In the world of nature we behold the living organisms in a ceaseless struggle for existence | PUP#120 (p.400-402) [http://www.bahai.org/r/850786173] SW_v06#03 p.019-021 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_3] SW_v17#11 p.333 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_17/Issue_11] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @need for an educator, @Christ; Christianity, @Muhammad; Islam, @unity; oneness of humanity, @categories of Prophets (major; minor; village), @Moses, @education of children; moral education | |||||||||
| ABU1690 | Words spoken on 1913-01-13 in London | 180 | Persian | من از احساسات شماها بسیار ممنونم زیرا این احساسات عمومیه الهیه است و امور خصوصیه بشریه | I am most grateful to you all for your sentiments, inasmuch as universal feelings are divine, whereas particular matters are born of humankind | BDA2.082 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-90.html] | MHMD2.099-100 | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization | |||||||
| AB00287 | 700 | mixed | ای مفتون و تشنه حقیقت نامه شما رسید دلیل بر آن بود که از افق وجدان صبحی تابان | O thou who art eager and athirst for the truth! Thy letter hath been received. It indicateth that a radiant morn hath dawned above the horizon of the heart. | MNMK#108 p.203 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-201.html] MJTB.057 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] MJDF.053 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=53] KHF.118 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=121] KHAB.037 (046) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.048 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-50.html] NJB_v05#07 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_7] | DAS.1913-09-11 MHMD2.049x ABIE.304 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] ADMS#068 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-education-uncivilized/] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @Manifestation of God as educator, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @need for an educator, @Muhammad; Islam, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Christ; Christianity | ||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-88.html] | 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 | |||||||
| AB11286 | 40 | ...May America become the distributing center of spiritual enlightenment, and all the world receive this heavenly blessing | TDH#158.17x [http://www.bahai.org/r/679994757] | @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @being a source of light; guidance, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @praise of Western values; culture | |||||||||||
| ABU2345 | Words spoken on 1915-08-07 in Haifa | 100 | Persian | نفس وقتی که بر انسان مسلط می شود هر بلائی بسر انسان می آورد. یک ساعت بخیال ریاست می اندازد | At the moment when the self gaineth dominion over man, it visiteth upon him every affliction. For the space of an hour it casteth him into thoughts of supremacy [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-08-07 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | ||||||||
| ABU1812 | Words to Mrs. Emma Blum, spoken on 1912-10-07 | 170 | My admonition to you is this. Be thoughtful of attaining to that which was the utmost desire of the Saints. Strive with all your heart and soul to attain to the Kingdom of God. | ECN.676 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=676] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spiritual transformation, @exhortations and counsels | ||||||||||
| AB06098 | 130 | Persian | ای بنده رب مجید رشید نفسیست که بر نفس و هوی غالب گردد و جمال احدیت را طالب | O servant of the All-Glorious Lord! A noble soul is one that overcometh self and desire, and seeketh after the Beauty of Divine Unity [3.5s] | YARP2.274 p.234 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-240.html] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB00420 | Some Answered Questions #064 The Station of Man and His Progress after Death | 600 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | چون در کائنات ببصر بصیرت نظر کنیم ملاحظه شود که محصور در سه قسم است | When we examine all things with the eye of discernment, we observe that they are generally confined to three categories | MFD#64 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-168.html] OOL.C022.64 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-19-fa] | SAQ#64 [http://www.bahai.org/r/136877093] BWF.331-333 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#1834x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1834] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @soul; spirit after death, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @arcs of ascent and descent, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @differences in human capacity, @man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation, @spiritual transformation, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar] | ||||||
| ABU1926 | Words to Percy Grant, spoken around 1912-07-12 | 150 | Man thinks too much of perfecting the body, but of what use is it to him without the perfecting of the spirit? | DJT.341-343 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @principle of balance; moderation; equilibrium, @critique of Western values; culture | ||||||||||
| AB00183 | 2430 | mixed | الهی الهی انت تعلم عجزی و انکساری و غلقی و اضطراری و وحشتی و اضطرابی فی جنح | O my God! O my God! Thou well knowest my utter helplessness, my extreme lowliness, my anxiety, my crying needs, my desolation and my perplexity | BRL_DAK#0652 [https://www.bahai.org/r/557146116] HDQI.173-175x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-178.html] ANDA#04 p.05-07x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-4] MSHR2.207x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-209.html] MSHR3.160x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-162.html] VUJUD.017x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | VUJUDE.024-025x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @prayer for forgiveness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @predictions and prophecies, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||
| ABU0524 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 520 | There are two states of existence—the temporal and the eternal- the conditioned and the unconditioned—the estate of impotence and of primeval power. | AELT.191-194 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=238] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @Muhammad; Islam, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Christ; Christianity, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal | ||||||||||
| ABU1956 | Words spoken in 1912 in the United States | 150 | If a child is left to its own natural proclivities, without education, it will embody all human defects | SW_v04#06 p.105-106 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_6] SW_v15#10 p.289.1 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_10] SW_v09#07 p.086 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_7] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @perfection; imperfection of nature, @education of children; moral education, @religion as reality; definitions of religion | ||||||||||
| ABU0440 | Words spoken on 1915-08-04 in Haifa | 580 | Persian | اگر در ظل روحانیات باشد آنوقت ترقی می کند والا ایامی چند نمی گذرد هباءً منبثاً می شود. نتیجه نمی بخشد | If one dwelleth beneath the shade of spiritual things, then shall one advance; else shall not many days pass ere it becometh as scattered dust, yielding no fruit [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-08-04 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @call to action | ||||||||
| AB02513 | 240 | Persian | Research Department, Functions of; Etymologies of three terms | ای بنده آستان مقدس نامه شما رسید در وقتیکه این عبد در محیط اعظم مشاغل و غوائل | O servant of the sanctified threshold! Your letter was received at a time when the most great ocean of tasks, tribulations and literary communications… the human spirit, in other words, the rational soul, is the intermediary between the immaterial and the corporeal | YMM.274x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=282] NJB_v05#07 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_7] VUJUD.110.19x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | BLO_PT#076 [https://bahai-library.com/uhj_research_department_etymologies] VUJUDE.201x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @importance of community building, @power of the mind over nature, @the human soul, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-111.html] | 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 | |||||||
| AB03451 | 200 | Persian | ای طالب حقیقت نامه شما رسید عوارض جسمانی هر چند سبب حیرانی انسانی است ولی چون | O seeker of truth! Thy letter hath been received. Although physical afflictions cause bewilderment to the human soul, yet [3.5s] | MMK3#163 p.114 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-116.html] YMM.427 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=435] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| ABU1999 | Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04 | 140 | Everything save man has one condition, but man has two.... One will lift him up, but the other will send him to the lowest depths. | BSC.440 #801 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] PN_1901 p022 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1901.pdf#page=22] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @education and the development of capacity, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @spiritual transformation, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @transcending the material condition, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God | ||||||||||
| ABU2609 | Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23 | 80 | the development of existence may be represented by two arcs forming a circle. The one descending, the other ascending. Beginning with the mineral | PN_1909F p060 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909F.pdf#page=60] PN_1909F p114 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909F.pdf#page=114] AKL.008 | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @arcs of ascent and descent, @man's distinction from the animal, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @evolution; human evolution, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||||
| ABU1504 | Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-02 | 210 | Man is first like a pupil. He becomes learned. Then he becomes a teacher. First he is a patient... The life of man will at last end in this world. We must all take out of this life some fruit. | SW_v07#16 p.150-151x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] PN_1909 p006 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=6] PN_1909 p026 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=26] PN_1909 p076 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=76] PN_1909B p007 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909B.pdf#page=7] PN_1909C p087 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=87] DJT.024-025 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] DJT.033 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] | @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||||
| AB02251 | 260 | mixed | ای طالب صادق و حبیب موافق آنچه مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گشت و بمنتهای دقت | O sincere seeker and cherished companion, that which thou hast written was perused with utmost care [3.5s] | INBA88:132 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=166] | AHB.118BE #05 p.01 AYT.440 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-440.html] RHQM2.0847-848 (262) (161) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=118] | @twin Manifestations, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @contention and conflict | ||||||||
| AB05486 | Some Answered Questions #065 Faith and Works | 140 | Persian | Answered Questions, Some | از این آیهء مبارکه مقصد اینست که اساس فوز و فلاح عرفان حق است | The meaning of this blessed verse is that the foundation of success and salvation is the recognition of God | MFD#65 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-170.html] OOL.C022.65 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-20-fa] | SAQ#65 [http://www.bahai.org/r/709479016] | @twin duties of recognition and obedience, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | ||||||
| ABU0589 | Words to Dr. Woodsen Allen, spoken on 1912-10-10 | 480 | Man must not imagine disease but must ever trust God. Anyway, a man's life here in this world is temporary…. There was a man, a grandee among the Turks | MAB.048 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=73] ECN.467+474+523x+595 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=467] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @soul; spirit after death | ||||||||||
| AB05205 | 150 | O thou kind friend! Thy letter was received and its contents considered. Man must, under all conditions, be thankful to God, the One | TAB.067-068 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA67] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @thankfulness; gratitude, @education of children; moral education, @love of God | |||||||||||
| ABU1189 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-10 | 270 | The staff of life is bread. All other things are comparatively non-essential. Let us pray that the wheat fields may be saved | DAS.1915-04-10 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=80] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | ||||||||||
| ABU2696 | 80 | Praise be to God that thou hast found guidance... This turning the face toward God is the healing of the body, the mind and the soul.... Therefore sacrifice all thy talents at the feet | BSC.490 #941 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v08#18 p.233x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB10061 | 70 | Persian | ای متوکل علی الله توکل را معنی حقیقی اینست که چون در سبیل الهی قدم نهی از هر | O thou who reliest upon God! True reliance consisteth in taking steps upon the path of God and freeing thyself from [3.5s] | AKHA_134BE #16 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] HDQI.200 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-205.html] ANDA#47 p.05 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-47] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB09956 | 70 | Persian | ای دو نفس زکیه تا توانید در خدمت آستان احدیت حضرت مقدسه بکوشید و چون | O ye two pure souls! Strive, as much as ye can, in service at the sacred Threshold of the One True God, and when [3.5s] | MKT8.095b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-95.html] LMA2.430 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/360.pdf#page=438] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB00792 | 440 | mixed | ای بنده الهی مراسله روحانی آن جناب واصل از مضمون اگرچه بجهتی محزون شدیم زیرا | O servant of God! Thy spiritual letter was received and, although in one respect its contents caused us sorrow, for [3.5s] | INBA85:148 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=150] | MMK6#551 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=403] MSHR2.115x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-117.html] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @consolation and comfort | ||||||||
| ABU1992 | Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-26 | 140 | Persian | مومن بهاءالله کسی است که ثابت بر میثاق است هر کسی بپیمان الهی ثابت است مومن است | A believer in Baha'u'llah is he who is firm in the Covenant.... Is it possible that one may believe in a book without believing in the teacher | BDA1.391.15 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-391.html] | SW_v14#08 p.228 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_8] MHMD1.410 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=435] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @firmness in the Covenant, @Manifestation of God as sun, @station of the Manifestation of God | |||||||
| AB04940 | 160 | O thou spiritual son! Verily I have received thy letter ... and its contents were known. I supplicate God to open to thee a way | TAB.455 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA455] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @laws of marriage and dowry, @study; deepening | |||||||||||
| AB08728 | 90 | mixed | ای دوست حقیقی روحانی جناب میرزا حبیب الان از حیفا وارد و در این ساعت راجع | O true spiritual friend! Mirza Habib hath now arrived from Haifa, and at this hour is returning [3.5s] | MMK6#552 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=404] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consolation and comfort, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| AB08610 | 90 | Persian | ای بنده مقرب جمال ابهی هر چند امور بظاهر پریشان گردد ولی الحمد لله در باطن | O thou favored servant of the Beauty of Abha! Though outwardly matters may appear disordered, yet praise be unto God, inwardly [3.5s] | MMK5#141 p.110 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-113.html] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB07089 | 120 | Persian | نامه ۹ ذی القعده ۳۷ رسید مضمون معلوم گردید حضرت امین چند سال است نهایت ستایش | The letter of the ninth of Dhi'l-Qa'dah 37 was received and its contents were noted. For several years His Honour Amín hath been deserving of the highest praise [3.5s] | YIK.485 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=494] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @business; financial; property matters, @praise and encouragement, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | |||||||||
| AB10651 | 60 | Persian | ای ورقه موقنه شاد باش و آزاد باش و مطمئن بفضل و موهبت پروردگار که ترا هدایت | O assured leaf! Be joyous and free, and rest confident in the grace and bounty of the Lord, Who hath guided thee [3.5s] | YARP2.501 p.366 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-372.html] | @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | |||||||||
| ABU1118 | Words spoken at Thornburgh-Cropper home, 1911-09-12 | 280 | Persian | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | الحمد لله خوب جمعیتی است بسیار بسیار نورانی است روحانی است | Thanks be to God, this is a good meeting. It is very enlightened; it is spiritual | MSHR3.061x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-63.html] KHAB.055 (064) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.021 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-23.html] NJB_v02#14-16 p.012 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | AIL.046 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#12 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_12] ABS#07 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/09/12/a-heavenly-meeting/] | @true liberty; freedom, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | ||||||
| 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 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] | @true liberty; freedom, @unity of governments; political unity, @universal peace; world unity, @status of kings; future of monarchy | |||||||||||
| AB05095 | 150 | O servant of God! The content of thy letter was replete with spiritual feelings and was a source of pleasure and of joy. Of my freedom | TAB.151 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA151] SW_v19#04 p.121 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_4] | @true liberty; freedom, @transcending the material condition, @suffering and imprisonment, @composure; tranquillity; serenity, @light and darkness | |||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/qazvini_abdul-baha_prominent_iranians] | @true liberty; freedom, @growth of the Cause | ||||||||||
| ABU1305 | Words spoken on 1913-05-17 in Paris | 240 | Persian | چون این ظهور ظهور فضل است لهذا اشخاص نیکوکار خوش رفتاری که مؤمن نیستند | As this is the dispensation of grace, those who perform good deeds and exhibit goodly conduct but do not believe in the Cause will not be deprived of God's bounty and favour | BDA2.304 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-312.html] | MHMD2.402-403 | @true liberty; freedom, @goodly deeds; actions, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @spiritual transformation | |||||||
| ABU0914 | Words spoken on 1913-04-17 in Budapest | 330 | Persian | آزادی سه قسم است یک آزادی الهی است که بذات باری مخصوص است و اواست مختار مطلق | There are three types of freedom. The first is divine freedom, which is one of the inherent attributes of the Creator for He is unconstrained in His will | PYB#100 p.07 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/100.PDF#page=7] MAS5.017 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-17.html] BDA2.243-244 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-251.html] | MHMD2.315-316 | @true liberty; freedom, @freedom of thought and action, @purpose; goal of creation, @absolute freedom; independence of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa] | |||||||
| AB12579 | 90 | Persian | ای اهل ملکوت الحمد لله بعون و عنایت بهاء الله بپاریس رسیدیم و این سفر بپاریس | O ye people of the Kingdom! Praise be to God that through the Favor and bounty of Baha'u'llah I have reached Paris. This trip to Paris was just for your sake. | BBBD.198x | BBBD.198 | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @wisdom [hikmat] | ||||||||
| AB06581 | 120 | Persian | ای افنان سدره مبارکه عبدالبهاء در این دو روزه عازم بلاد بعیده است ابدا وقت | O Afnan of the Sacred Lote-Tree! In these two days 'Abdu'l-Bahá is bound for distant lands; no time [3.5s] | INBA87:333 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=335] INBA52:340 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=342] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB06441 | 130 | Persian | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | این کتاب مقدس الهیست بوحی سماویست تورات نجاتست انجیل جلیل است اسرار ملکوتست | This book is the Holy Book of God, of celestial Inspiration. It is the Bible of Salvation | AMK.174-174b | AIL.018 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#11 p.008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_11] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | |||||||
| AB03159 | 210 | Persian | ای دوستان عزیز عبدالبهاء سه سال است که مانند مرغ بی لانه و آشیانه سرگشته کوه و | O ye friends of Abdul Baha: It is now three years that, like unto a nestless and shelterless bird, I have been wandering through mountains and plains and flying over the wilderness and Sahara. | MMK5#082 p.066 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-69.html] MJDF.111 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=111] | DAS.1913-08-08 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_03.pdf#page=42] ABIE.170 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] BSTW#460 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_451-485.pdf#page=22] MHMD2s.327bx [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | ||||||||
| ABU0970 | Address to the Baha'is at Kinney home in New York, 1912-04-11 | 320 | Promulgation of Universal Peace | How are you? You are welcome. After arriving today, although tired, still I had the utmost longing and yearning to see you | PUP#001 (p.003-004) [http://www.bahai.org/r/790920702] SW_v03#10 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] | R. Yazhari [https://ryazhari.bandcamp.com/track/long-journey] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love of God, @praise and encouragement, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @suffering and imprisonment | ||||||||
| AB08446 | 100 | ...Consider how ‘Abdu'l-Bahá forgot all thoughts and mentions and turned his face towards the countries and empires | SW_v05#01 p.007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_1] SW_v07#10 p.098 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_10] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB04184 | 180 | Persian | یا امین عبدالبهاء در اقلیم مصرم و شب و روز بذکر یاران مشغول از مجمع صلح عمومی | O trusted one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! I am in the land of Egypt, and night and day am I occupied with the remembrance of the friends in the general peace assembly [3.5s] | INBA16:156 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=158] | MMK5#042 p.041 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-44.html] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | ||||||||
| AB09929 | 70 | mixed | ای ثابت نابت الیوم جنود ملا اعلی ناصر و معین نفوس مبارکی است که به تبلیغ قیام | O you who are growing firm! In this day, the hosts of the Concourse on High aid and assist blessed souls who arise to teach the Cause | MMK5#081 p.066 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-69.html] AADA.146-147 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/831.pdf#page=153] | DAS.1913-06-27 MHMD2s.334-335 [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause | ||||||||
| ABU1356 | Words to Frank Carroll Giffen, spoken on 1912-10-07 | 240 | Are you well?... I have come here with the greatest longing. Whenever I became tired on the way, I thought of your promised faces, and the fatigue passed away. | ECN.822+999 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=822] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness | ||||||||||
| AB04633 | 160 | Persian | ای احبای الهی و کنیزان عزیز حق عبدالبهاء را نهایت اشتیاق بملاقات ولی مجبور بمراجعت | O ye friends of God and the beloved maidservants of the True One! 'Abdu'l-Baha has the utmost longing to meet you | ANDA#43-44 p.85 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] NJB_v02#14-16 p.005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] | SW_v02#16 p.008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_16] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @Greatest Name, @The Holy Spirit | ||||||||
| ABU1823 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-22 | 160 | In these days the most important affair is to render a worthy service at the Holy Divine Threshold and this is no other but the guidance of the people of the earth. | DAS.1914-11-22 | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @idolatry, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East | ||||||||||
| AB06545 | 130 | O thou real beloved! The letter which thou hast written in regard to the happiness and joy, beatitude and rejoicing | SW_v01#17 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_17] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power of prayer, @review of publications, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | |||||||||||
| AB09109 | 90 | ...Consider how Abdul Baha forgot every material thought and mention and turned his face toward the countries and empires, cities and villages | DAS.1913-08-17 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_03.pdf#page=81] ABIE.203 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||||
| AB04685 | 160 | Persian | ای بنده جمال مبارک مکاتیب شما جمیع رسید و از قرائت نهایت سرور حاصل گردید | O servant of the Blessed Beauty! All thy letters were received, and from their perusal the utmost joy was obtained [3.5s] | MMK5#109 p.087 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-90.html] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @review of publications | |||||||||
| AB03680 | 190 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه مورخه ۱۲ فبرایر ۱۹۱۲ رسید برایس یونیورستی کالیفرنیا | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter dated February 12, 1912 was received, concerning Brice University of California [3.5s] | NJB_v03#02 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_2] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @review of publications | |||||||||
| AB00453 | 580 | mixed | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه بیست و چهارم شعبان این سنه که به آقا سید اسدالله | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! The letter of the twenty-fourth of Sha'ban of this year, addressed to Áqá Siyyid Asadu'lláh [3.5s]... ...Though ‘Abdu’l-Baha was suffering from three chronic illnesses, and the physicians of Haifa said that it was necessary for him to enjoy peace of mind and tranquility for a while | MMK5#080 p.065 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-68.html] MMK6#229x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=169] MSHR1.096x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-98.html] | MHMD2s.324ax [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @unity; oneness of humanity, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @contention and conflict | ||||||||
| ABU1342 | Words to Mrs Goodall, spoken on 1912-10-11 | 240 | I want you to write this exactly, to the believers, giving the details. Tell them I have many letters from the Orient - all stating that the believers in the Orient have travelled long distances | PN_1912 p012 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=12] ECN.070x+123 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=070] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @race unity; racial issues, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||||
| ABU1958 | Words spoken on 1913-07-02 in Port Said | 150 | It is not my duty to command particular persons to arise and teach the Cause | DAS.1913-07-02 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=5] SW_v04#15 p.251 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_15] ABIE.009 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @priority over other activities in teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause | ||||||||||
| AB02934 | 220 | mixed | ای دو یار نازنین الحمد لله یار دلنشین و منجذب نور مبینید و سیراب از عین یقینید | O ye two cherished companions! Praise be to God, ye are attracted to the manifest Light and are refreshed from the fountain of certitude [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0911 [https://www.bahai.org/r/972930771] YARP2.343 p.279 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-285.html] PPAR.098 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=100] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @love of God | |||||||||
| ABU2414 | Words spoken on 1913-12-05 in Haifa | 100 | After the end of three years, again I return to the Holy Land. Were it not for the assistance and protection | SW_v09#02 p.017 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_2] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @praise and encouragement, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | ||||||||||
| AB09831 | 70 | Persian | مرقوم نموده بودی که احبّای بوستون و مالدن نهایت سرور داشتند که شاید من به امریک خواهم آمد | Thou didst write that the friends in Boston and Malden were filled with utmost joy at the prospect that I might come to America [3.5s] | NJB_v02#02 p.003x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_2] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @praise and encouragement, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @exhortations and counsels | |||||||||
| AB06535 | 130 | Thy letter was received and read. Thou hast invited me to America, saying: "In that region and in that country | SW_v02#06 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_6] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | |||||||||||
| AB10473 | 60 | ...Thy letter hath arrived. Praised be God, under the sheltering protection of the Blessed Beauty, I have safely returned from the West but will again proceed to America | LTDT.306x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LTDT.pdf#page=323] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @permission for visit; pilgrimage | |||||||||||
| AB11317 | Cablegram dated 1912-11-09 | 30 | Eng | We will arrive in New York Monday Night. The time for sail is not yet set. You and friends have permission to come to New York. Abbas. | MAX.285a [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAX1.pdf#page=285] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @permission for visit; pilgrimage | |||||||||
| AB03112 | 210 | O thou servant of the Blessed Perfection! Your epistle dated October 30th reached me at Ramleh. ...Regarding my coming to America | SW_v01#17 p.002-003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_17] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||||
| AB00285 | 700 | Persian | ای سهیم و شریک عبدالبهاء در عبودیت آستان بها شب است در کالیفورنیا شهر اوکلند | O thou who art partner and co-sharer with ‘Abdu'l-Baha in servitude to the Threshold of Baha! It is evening and these wandering birds are nestled in the home | KHSH08.010 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_8] KHSH08.052 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_8] ANDA#33 p.19 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-33] MSHR5.259-260x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=255] MJDF.104 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=104] NJB_v04#07 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_7] BDA1.315.07 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-315.html] | MHMD1.333 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=358] ECN.544 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=544] ADMS#178 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-tablet-oakland-haji-mirza-haydar-ali/] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @Nineteen-Day Feast, @suffering and imprisonment | ||||||||
| AB07775 | 110 | ...It is truly a delightful place. The mildness of the weather, the freshness of the grass and fields, the lushness and pleasantness of the hills | LTDT.344x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LTDT.pdf#page=361] AIF.1911-08-21x | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @praise and encouragement, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||||
| ABU2716 | Words spoken on 1913-05-06 in Paris | 70 | Persian | آن نفوس پر غفلت و غرور گمان مینمودند که خود لیاقت و استحقاقی دارند غافل از اینکه | Those people, filled as they are with pride and ignorance, deemed themselves to be worthy or deserving, oblivious of the fact | BDA2.286 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-294.html] | MHMD2.377 | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | |||||||
| AB00163 | 890 | mixed | ای یاران جان و وجدان عبدالبهاء جناب نصرالله خان الحمد لله در صون حمایت جمال | O ye spiritual friends and companions in conscience of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Jináb-i-Naṣru'lláh Khán, praised be God, under the sheltering protection [3.5s] | MSHR2.319 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-321.html] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @growth of the Cause, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness | |||||||||
| AB03965 | 180 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان لائحه شما وصول یافت و از وقایع جلوه ملکوت الله مسامع یاران | O you who are firm in the Covenant! Your document has arrived, and the happenings indicating the splendid manifestation of God’s Kingdom | MMK5#079 p.064 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-67.html] | MHMD2s.334x [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @growth of the Cause | ||||||||
| ABU2456 | Words to the American friends, spoken on 1912-04-02 | 90 | Persian | سابق طی بحر محیط باین سهولت ممکن نبود و تا کنون این نحو مسافر هم از ایران بامریکا نرفته | In past ages crossing the ocean was not as easy as it is now. Up to the present time no one has traveled, with a purpose like ours, from Persia to America. | BDA1.020.15 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-20.html] | DAS.1913-07-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=47] MHMD1.028 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=53] ABIE.089 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||
| ABU1179 | Words spoken on 1913-08-20 in Ramleh | 270 | In this day the greatness of the Cause is acknowledged by all the people, even the outsiders. This last time one of the Sardars of Persia | DAS.1913-08-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_03.pdf#page=87] ABIE.214 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @Greatest Name, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @unity; oneness of humanity | ||||||||||
| AB05788 | 140 | Persian | ای مفتون حقیقت استعداد در هر شیء جاذب تاییدات الهیه است ملاحظه مینماای چون | O thou who art enamored of the truth! The receptivity present in any object attracts divine confirmations. You will observe that, when the earth acquires receptivity | MMK5#088 p.070 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-73.html] | DAS.1914-04-25 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=59] MHMD2s.333ax [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @education and the development of capacity | ||||||||
| ABU2057 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-06 | 130 | It is strange that the people put aside my many Tablets written on this matter and go by their own feelings. Write to Mr Hannen to make public my explicit texts concerning the Society and its future. | DAS.1913-05-06 | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @East and West; communication between East and West, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @call to action | ||||||||||
| AB01608 | 310 | Persian | ای یاران الهی و کنیزان بهاء الله نامه های شما رسید بنهایت سرور قرائت گردید حمد خدا | O friends of Baha'u'llah! Your letters reached me and were read with great joy. Praise be to God | ANDA#43-44 p.90 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] NJB_v02#12-13 p.011-012 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_12] | SW_v02#13 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_13] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @East and West; communication between East and West | ||||||||
| ABU2590 | Words spoken en route in train in Chicago, 1912-10-31 | 80 | Persian | متجاوز از دو سال است که از جوار روضهٴ مبارکه دورم حال باید مراجعت کنم اگر باز مقدر شود | It is now more than two years that I have been far from the Holy Shrine of Baha'u'llah. Now I must return. If God wills it, I shall make another journey in another direction | BDA1.341.08 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-341.html] | MHMD1.359-360 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=384] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||
| AB01636 | 310 | mixed | دوست مهربانا نامه شما رسید و از مضمون نهایت سرور حاصل گردید زیرا دلیل بر وفا | My dear friend, your letter has arrived, and its contents brought the utmost joy, for it was evidence of fidelity [3.5s] | MMK5#049 p.046 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-49.html] MSHR3.208 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-210.html] MSHR4.298-299 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=294] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB02653 | 230 | Persian | ای امین عبدالبهاء در بدایت ربیع الاول سنه ۱۳۳۰ مبلغ سیصد جنیه که از طهران | O trusted one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! At the beginning of Rabí'u'l-Avval in the year 1330, a sum of three hundred pounds which from Ṭihrán [3.5s] | INBA16:149 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=151] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @business; financial; property matters, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB07965 | 100 | Persian | ای بنده درگاه الهی شکایت از عدم جواب نامه نموده بودی سبب خستگی راه و شدت تعب | O servant at the divine threshold! You had complained about the lack of a response to your letter. This is attributable to the fatigues of my journey | MKT5.064b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-65.html] MMK5#084 p.067 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-70.html] | MHMD2s.330ax [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @business; financial; property matters, @suffering and imprisonment | ||||||||
| AB05169 | 150 | Persian | احبای شهرهای کالیفورنیا علی الخصوص سانفرانسیسکو از بس ناله و فریاد کردند | ...It is because the friends of California, and particularly those of San Francisco, have so frequently called and pleaded | BDA1.231.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-231.html] | MHMD1.247-248x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=272] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @business; financial; property matters | ||||||||
| AB04416 | 170 | Persian | ای عزیز عبدالبهاء چندی بود که نامه بشما ننگاشتم سبب عدم مجال و اعتلال مزاج | O dear one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, for some time I have not written a letter to you, due to lack of opportunity and ill health [3.5s] | DUR4.661 | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB04332 | 170 | Persian | ای ثابت مستقیم چند روز است که بکشور ماه کنعانی وارد شدم و در تهیا سفر بامریک | O steadfast and firm one! Some days have passed since I arrived in the land of the Canaanite moon, and am preparing for the journey to America [3.5s] | KHSK.103-104 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/khsk.pdf#page=103] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @humility; meekness; lowliness | |||||||||
| AB05566 | 140 | Persian | ای بنده جمال مبارک نامه شما رسید و عبدالبهاء دقیقه ای آرام ندارد و فرصت ندارد | O servant of the Blessed Beauty! Thy letter was received, and 'Abdu'l-Bahá hath not a moment's rest nor any respite [3.5s] | YARP2.453 p.339 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-345.html] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB10744 | 60 | Persian | یا جناب وحید اجوبه و مکاتیب متعدده ارسال گردیده البته تا بحال رسیده اما | O esteemed Vahíd, numerous replies and letters have been dispatched, and undoubtedly they have reached you by now [3.5s] | INBA17:137 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=139] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB10498 | 60 | Persian | ای دو افنان سدره مبارکه الحمد لله از سفر سه سال در ممالک وسیعهٌ | O ye two branches of the Blessed Tree, praised be God that for three years in vast domains [3.5s] | INBA84:450a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=453] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB10533 | 60 | Persian | ای شمع محبت الله نامه های متعدد تو رسید بحسب وعد انشاءالله در بیست و پنجم | O thou candle of the love of God! Thy numerous letters were received. According to the promise, by the Will of God, I shall embark | BRL_DAK#0539 [https://www.bahai.org/r/121895928] MMK5#050 p.047 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-50.html] | DJT.225 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | ||||||||
| AB11187 | 40 | O thou who art enkindled with the fire of the love of God! Thy letter was received, but I have no time to answer | MAX.275 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAX1.pdf#page=275] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||||
| AB10887 | 50 | Persian | ای ثابتان ای راسخان صبح است و در پاریس بقرائت این نامه نفیس پرداختم ولی افسوس | O ye steadfast ones, O ye firm ones! It is dawn, and in Paris I have begun reading this precious letter. Yet alas [3.5s] | AYBY.380 #061b [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-389.html] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB12214 | 250 | Persian | ای ثابت نابت نامه ای که بسلیل جلیل مرقوم فرموده بودی ملاحظه گردید مضمون موجب | O steadfast and unwavering one! The letter thou didst address to that illustrious descendant hath been perused, and its contents [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1091 [https://www.bahai.org/r/550445319] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB10031 | 70 | Persian | ای فرع سدره مبارکه باز از باختر بخاور باز گشتیم تا باستان مقدس دو بقعه مبارکه | O branch of the blessed Tree, once more have we journeyed from the West unto the East, to reach the sacred precincts of the two holy Shrines [3.5s] | INBA87:413 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=415] INBA52:425 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=427] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB10226 | 70 | Persian | دوست عزیز مهربانا فردا عازم اسکوتلاند هستیم ولی احوالم ابدا خوب نیست دیشب تب | O dear and kind friend! Tomorrow we shall set off for Scotland, but I am not in good health whatsoever. Last night I developed a high fever and did not sleep at all | MMK5#068 p.059 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-62.html] | MHMD2s.327ax [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | ||||||||
| AB12756 | 50 | O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom! Your letter has arrived. It shows your love. You wish for me to come to Germany. I hope that God will permit it. | BBBD.136 | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||||
| AB12773 | 30 | Persian | ای حضرت بشیر این نامه پانزده روز پیش مرقوم شد ولی فرصت ارسال نشد | O thou herald of the Covenant! Though this letter was penned fifteen days ago, opportunity for its dispatch did not present itself [3.5s] | INBA85:451a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=453] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB08448 | 100 | ...The long journey over sea and land, the innumerable difficulties in the morn and at eve, the lack of rest and sleep | DAS.1913-08-01 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_03.pdf#page=7] ABIE.138 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||||
| AB08343 | 100 | Persian | ای یاران مهربان و اماء رحمن الان در پاریس مشغول بتحریر این نامه مختصر گشتم | O kind friends and handmaidens of the Merciful! At this moment in Paris I have taken up the task of penning this brief letter [3.5s] | INBA85:548b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=550] | DBR.073 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/630.pdf#page=76] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | ||||||||
| AB08442 | 100 | Persian | یار مهربان من الان که بتحریر این نامه پرداختم دو روز است که در خانه مستر هویت | O kind friend! As of this moment, in which I have begun to write this letter, I have been at the home of Mr. Whyte in Edinburgh for two days | MMK5#069 p.059 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-62.html] | MHMD2s.325-326 [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | ||||||||
| AB09776 | 70 | mixed | الهی الهی هولاء عبادک المنجذبون الی ملکوت تقدیسک مر تلون لایات توحیدک مبتهلون | O my God, O my God! These are Thy servants, who are attracted to the kingdom of Thy sanctity, who recite the verses of Thy oneness, and who supplicate in devotion [3.5s] | MJMJ3.030 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA3/mma3-32.html] MMG2#092 p.102x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-105.html] | @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | |||||||||
| AB03330 | 200 | Persian | ای امین عبدالبهاء نامه بیست و سوم رجب ۳۳۱ رسید خدمات تو همیشه در نظر است... از طول سفر | O trusted one [Amín] of ‘Abdu’l-Baha! . . . As a result of the length of my travels over land and sea, the severe hardships I have suffered night and day | INBA16:158 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=160] | MKT9.029 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=15] MMK5#074 p.062 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-65.html] YHA2.997-998x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/684.pdf#page=454] NJB_v04#05 p.002x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_5] | MHMD2s.325x [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||
| AB00393 | 610 | mixed | ای یار مهربان نامه اخیر در اسکندریه وصول یافت با وجود نهایت ضعف ... در این سفر شب و روز مشغولیت | O kind friend! Thy latest letter was received in Alexandria. Despite extreme feebleness... during this journey I am occupied night and day [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0311 [http://www.bahai.org/r/905189503] MMK5#003 p.001 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-4.html] MMK6#274x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=202] AVK2.161.16x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-162.html] AVK2.212.19x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-213.html] AVK4.179.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-183.html] MAS2.071-072x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-72.html] MSHR3.072x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-74.html] YHA2.1003x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/684.pdf#page=-443] YMM.240x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=248] YMM.302x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=310] YMM.346x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=354] YMM.417x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=425] NJB_v04#15 p.004x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_15] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | |||||||||
| ABU1904 | Words to Asadullah Qumi spoken around Sept. 1910 | 160 | Do you realize the meaning of my statement... Tell the friends, how, under severe circumstances of bodily weakness, I have accepted... A clipping from the newspaper of Moaid... | SW_v01#15 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_15] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @wisdom [hikmat] | ||||||||||
| AB04041 | 180 | mixed | ای فروغ پرفروغ نامه شما رسید عبدالبهاء در خطه مصر بود و ابدا فرصت تحریر و | O radiant effulgence! Thy letter was received. 'Abdu'l-Bahá was in the land of Egypt and had no opportunity whatsoever to engage in writing [3.5s] | MUH3.025a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=41] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @personal instructions, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| AB02162 | 270 | Persian | یا اباالفضائل هشت سال بود شما میدانید که از شدت بلایا و محن و آلام و تضییقات | O Abu'l-Fadá'il! For eight years, as thou well knowest, I have endured intense trials, tribulations, afflictions and restrictions [3.5s] | MMK5#035 p.037 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-40.html] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance | |||||||||
| AB11228 | 40 | Persian | جناب آقا سید تقی شاید من فرصتی یابم و چند روز بمصر ایم لهذا شما آنجا باشید | Jinab-i-Aqa Siyyid Taqi: Perchance I may find an opportunity to journey to Egypt for several days. Therefore, you should remain there [3.5s] | INBA17:213 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=215] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @personal instructions | |||||||||
| AB04010 | 180 | Persian | نامه مفصل که در خصوص استتکارت نوشته بودی ملاحظه گردید مختصر این است | ...The extensive letter you had written about Stuttgart was perused. In brief, Germany will shine resplendent, inasmuch as its citizens are religiously minded | ASAT1.025x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf#page=18] | BBBD.242-243 DAS.1913-07-15 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=32] ABIE.069 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] MHMD2s.323ax [https://bahai-library.com/supplement_abdul-baha_europe_1912-1913] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @call to action, @praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @growth of the Cause, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization | ||||||||
| AB04683 | 160 | Persian | ای بنده جمال ابهی نامه پنجم شعبان سنه حالیه که به آقا سید اسدالله مرقوم نموده بودید | O servant of the Most Glorious Beauty! The letter dated the fifth of Sha'ban of this year, which thou hadst addressed to Áqá Siyyid Asadu'lláh [3.5s] | INBA85:451b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=453] | MMK5#036 p.038 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-41.html] BSHI.058 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=58] | @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | ||||||||
| AB04885 | 160 | Persian | ای یار پارسی عبدالبهاء نامه تو رسید خوب لقبی بجهت خاندان انتخاب نمودی دلالت | O my Persian friend! Thy letter hath been received. Thou hast chosen well the title for thy family, signifying [3.5s]... ...Thou hadst asked about the translation of the blessed verses. Translations must be of the utmost clarity and eloquence | MKT9.275 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=138] YARP2.267 p.231 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-237.html] PPAR.211 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ppar.pdf#page=213] QUM.236-237 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf] | ADMS#058 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-on-translations-of-writings/] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @thankfulness; gratitude, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||
| AB00820 | 430 | O thou servant of Baha'! Thy letter dated July 26, 1906, was received. Correspondence between the believers of the Orient and the Occident | TAB.466-468 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA466] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @East and West; communication between East and West, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB01474 | 320 | O thou servant of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh! Thy letter was received. As there is no time for a detailed answer I will give it briefly.... Regarding the Spiritual Assembly, this is not the House of Justice. It is a purely spiritual assembly and belongs to spiritual matters | DAS.1913-10-18 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=23] DAS.1913-10-19x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=25] BSTW#094 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=112] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @House of Justice, @newspapers and the media; publications, @review of publications | |||||||||||
| AB02566 | 240 | O thou heavenly personage! Thy letter was an evidence of the fact that praise be to God thou hast arisen to serve the Kingdom | DAS.1914-02-21 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=99] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||||
| AB05987 | 130 | I ask God that thou mayest find a perceiving eye, an attentive ear and an eloquent tongue; that thou mayest loosen thy tongue | TAB.428 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA428] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @education of children; moral education, @importance of prayer | |||||||||||
| AB01171 | 360 | O ye heavenly Assemblage! Your letter was received and its contents became known. Ye have written concerning the printing and the publication of the Tablets. | TAB.000:iii-v [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA0] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @soul; spirit after death, @praise and encouragement, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities | |||||||||||
| AB11671 | 250 | Persian | ای منادی پیمان در خصوص طبع آثار در مطبعه دولتی مرقوم نموده بودید جواب از | O Herald of the Covenant! Thou hast inquired regarding the printing of the Sacred Writings at the governmental press. In response, it is thus conveyed [4o] | BRL_DAK#0195 [http://www.bahai.org/r/216909372] YIA.251-252 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=247] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @review of publications, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @wisdom [hikmat], @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB02972 | 220 | O thou who art near to the Threshold of ABHA! I have considered what thou hast written to Mirza . . . . . . . . . as well as the letter addressed to me. | TAB.151-152 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA151] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @review of publications | |||||||||||
| AB11829 | 270 | Persian | ای بنده حضرت رحمن چندی پیش اوراق مسطور مرسول گشت البته تا بحال ملحوظ گشته | O servant of the All-Merciful! Some time ago the written pages were dispatched, and undoubtedly they have by now reached your consideration [3.5s] | INBA79.030 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v079/?page=3] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @consolation and comfort, @obedience to and respect for government authority | |||||||||
| AB02910 | 220 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید نامه نبود اثر خامه مشکین بود گلشن برین بود ایت | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter hath reached me. It was not a mere letter, but rather the effect of a musk-laden pen, a celestial rose-garden [3.5s] | MMK5#097 p.080 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-83.html] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @praise and encouragement, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB05905 | 140 | Arabic | ایها الحبیب قد انشرح صدری بمطالعه نمیقتک الوجیزه الغراء فقلت لله در الرجل | O beloved one! My breast was dilated upon perusing thy brief and lustrous missive, and I exclaimed: "How excellent is this man!" [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0516 [https://www.bahai.org/r/257679348] MKT3.221 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-221.html] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| AB05427 | 250 | Persian | نامه شما رسید و مضمون معلوم گردید در خصوص لقب ملکوتی بجهت حضرت صنیع مرقوم ... در خصوص الواح با ترجمه مرقوم فرموده بودید که از اینجا ارسال شود | Your letter hath been received, and its contents noted. Regarding the celestial title to be bestowed upon His Honour Ṣanī', it hath been written... As to the Tablets with their translations, you had written requesting these be sent from here [3.5s] | INBA79.032 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v079/?page=3] | AVK2.107.17x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-108.html] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @naming of children; of individuals | ||||||||
| AB03760 | 190 | Persian | اگر چنانچه در اقبال ناس حال فتوری مشاهده نمائی محزون مباش و این تخم پاک را بپاش یقین است | If thou shouldst witness any slackening in the people's response, be thou not grieved, and scatter thou this pure seed, for it is certain [3.5s] | MAS2.052-053x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-53.html] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @methods of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB01826 | 290 | Persian | ای سرمست جام محبت آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید از مضامین دلنشینش کمال | O thou who art intoxicated with the wine of divine love! That which thou didst write was perused, and from its soul-stirring contents [3.5s]... ...Briefly, in this day the greatest of deeds is to teach the Cause of God and to spread the divine fragrances. | MMK6#002x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=5] ABDA.379 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=387] | KSHK#26x [https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2017/06/04/respect-scriptures-by-publishing-fewer-of-them/] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | ||||||||
| ABU2232 | Words to the friends spoken in Dec. 1907 | 110 | Persian | در پاریس چنانچه باید و شاید امر الله علو ننموده است و آتش محبت الله در نگرفته البته در این حکمتی است | The Faith of God has not penetrated Paris and the fire of the love of God has not enkindled her people to the depth it should.... Sometimes, a translation is better than the original. A translator must fully comprehend the meaning [and the context] of the words. | KHH1.056-057 (1.079-080) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=87] | KHHE.097-098 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @language and the structure of reality, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @growth of the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||
| AB05660 | 140 | Persian | ای دو بنده صادق جمال مبارک نامه شما رسید ولی بعد از آنکه جناب جمشید داراب و | O ye two faithful servants of the Blessed Beauty! Your letter hath been received, yet after Jináb-i-Jamshíd-i-Dáráb [3.5s] | YARP2.605 p.422 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-428.html] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture | |||||||||
| AB05956 | 140 | mixed | ای منادی ميثاق الهی و مروّج پيمان رحمانی، اثر کلک مشکين ملاحظه گرديد و بر ظهور آثار تأييد و موفّقيّت | O herald of God's Covenant and promoter of the divine Testament! The effects of thy musk-laden pen were perused, and the evidences of divine confirmations and success [3.5s]... ...Great care should be exercised in preparing this translation. Mr.... should make a supreme effort so that the language will be most exquisite, eloquent and lucid | MMK3#257 p.184x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-186.html] | COC#2220x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_writers_writing#2220] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @growth of the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prayer for pioneers and travel teachers, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause | ||||||||
| AB03227 | 210 | Persian | ای یار مهربان مدتی بود که آرزوی مکاتبه با شما داشتم ولی وسائطی در میان نبود | O kind friend, for some time I had longed to correspond with you, but no means were available [3.5s] | MSHR3.350 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-352.html] PZHN v1#2 p.37 [https://web.archive.org/web/20200219220745/http://www.pazhuheshnameh.org/fa/issue2] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @eulogies; reminiscences, @knowledge; recognition of God | |||||||||
| AB08302 | 100 | O thou pure leaf of the Blessed Tree! Thy letter was received. Thou hast | SW_v10#17 p.320 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_17] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @education of children; moral education | |||||||||||
| 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 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=116] | @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 | ||||||||||
| AB03676 | 190 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید و همچنین وکالت نامه که بجهت آقا میرزا محسن | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter hath arrived, and likewise the power of attorney | BRL_DAK#0028 [http://www.bahai.org/r/504903696] | BRL_ATE#029 [http://www.bahai.org/r/735036329] MAAN#15 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAAN.pdf#page=16] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @business; financial; property matters, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | ||||||||
| AB11334 | 30 | Persian | اگر کلمات مکنونه را در لسان فارسی و عربی تلاوت مینمودی و بحقایق و معانی | ...Wert thou to recite the Hidden Words in Persian and Arabic and apprehend their realities and meanings, it would unveil a matchless beauty and splendor | ANDA#79 p.05x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-79] | ADMS#203ex [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/excerpts_abdul-baha_encouraging_study_persian/] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings | ||||||||
| AB12456 | 120 | O seeker of the Kingdom of God! Your letter has arrived. Thanks be to God that you have attained a share of His infinite grace and received joy and the fragrance of eternal life | BBBD.162 | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings | |||||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-371.html] | MHMD1.390 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=415] | @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings | |||||||
| AB07473 | 110 | Persian | ای صاحب قلب نورانی نامه ات رسید الحمد لله حقیقت جو هستی و امیدم چنانست که | O possessor of an illumined heart! Thy letter hath been received. Praise be to God that thou art a seeker after truth, and my hope is that [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#0042 [http://www.bahai.org/r/006717666] SFI12.024 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_12.pdf#page=24] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB05311 | 150 | Persian | ای خادم آستان منّان ، هر ظلّی جز ظلّ حقّ يحموم است و هر حصنی اوهن از بيت عنکبوت | O servant of the Threshold of the All-Bountiful! Every shadow save the shadow of Truth is darkness, and every fortress is frailer than the spider's web [3.5s] | MMK3#054 p.034x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-36.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @work as worship, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @excellence; distinction | |||||||||
| ABU2581 | Words to some Greek passengers, spoken on 1912-10-26 | 80 | Persian | خدا حرب نخواسته این نزاعها مخالف رضای الهیست او بجهت بندگانش صلح و صفا خواسته | God does not want war. These wars are against the divine will. He desires peace and love for His servants. | BDA1.334.02 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-334.html] | MHMD1.352 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=377] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @light and darkness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God | |||||||
| ABU0951 | Words spoken on 1915-08-03 in Haifa | 320 | Persian | پنجاه نفر در یک طرفة العین کشته شده اند ولی نمی دانند از برای چه گرگر می روند. جناب شیخ علی اکبر قوچانی | In the twinkling of an eye, fifty souls have been slain, yet they know not why they wail and lament [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-08-03 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @war and peace, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @martyrs and martyrdom | ||||||||
| ABU0417 | Words spoken on 1916-08-20 in Nazareth | 600 | Persian | انشاء الله این شمس راحت و آسایش به زودی از افق این جهان طلوع خواهد نمود و مردم در مهد آسایش و سرور خواهند آرمید | God willing, this Sun of comfort and tranquility shall ere long rise above the horizon of this world, and humanity shall repose upon the cradle of ease and gladness [3.5s] | ZSM.1916-08-20 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @war and peace, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @prayers (general or uncategorized) | ||||||||
| AB10298 | 70 | ...I hope ... certain souls may arise who may prove radiant lamps to the world of humanity | SW_v07#16 p.151x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @call to action | |||||||||||
| AB03913 | 180 | mixed | ای افنون منشعب از سدره الهیه جعلک الله خضرا نضرا رطبا طریا مزهرا مثمرا این | O Offshoot of the Divine Lote-Tree! May God make thee verdant, flourishing, fresh, tender, blossoming and fruit-laden [3.5s] | INBA87:484 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=486] INBA52:506 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=508] | KHAF.012 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=12] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @being a source of light; guidance, @spiritual transformation, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||
| AB03450 | 200 | Persian | ای صدر منشرح بذکر الله این عالم امکان ظلمتگاه غموم و هموم جسمانی و روحانی و | O thou whose breast is dilated through the remembrance of God! This contingent world is a darksome realm of physical and spiritual grief and woe [3.5s] | MMK2#114 p.088 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-90.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB08190 | 100 | Persian | ای کنیز مبارک بهاء الله بلقیس قدیمرا تخت و تاجی از طلای قشنگ و سنگ خوشرنگ بود | O handmaid of the Blessed Beauty! Ancient Balqís possessed a throne and crown of lustrous gold and beauteous gems [3.5s] | INBA85:204a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=206] | MKT7.120a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-124.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the power of words; of speech, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||
| AB07116 | 120 | mixed | آنچه اليوم در تماشاگاه امکان مشاهده نمائی عنقريب مشهود و واضح گردد که اوهام باطله و خيالات | Whatsoever thou beholdest this day in the theatre of contingent existence shall ere long become manifest and evident - these vain imaginings and idle fancies [3.5s] | MMK3#060 p.039x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-41.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the power of words; of speech, @love of God | |||||||||
| AB09430 | 80 | Persian | ای عبدالباقی آنچه در حیز وجود بینی جمیع فانی و هر که را در ظل ممدود یابی بر | O servant of the Ever-Abiding! Whatsoever thou beholdest within the realm of existence is destined to perish, and whomsoever thou findest beneath the extended shade [3.5s] | MMK6#376 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=276] YMM.456 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=464] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @spiritual transformation, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @the ephemeral and the eternal | |||||||||
| AB05577 | 140 | Persian | ای بنده صادق جمال ابهی آنچه در عالم ملک مشاهده مینماای ظل زائل عالم ملکوتست | O thou sincere servant of the Abha Beauty! Whatsoever thou dost witness in the realm of matter is but the evanescent shadow of the Kingdom [3.5s] | MMK3#035 p.023 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-25.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut], @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @material world a reflection of the spiritual | |||||||||
| AB10582 | 60 | Persian | ای مشتعل بنار عشق هر راحتی مبدل بزحمت گردد و هر عزتی منتهی بذلت تاج کوهر | O thou who art enkindled with the fire of love! Every comfort shall be transformed into hardship, and every honor shall culminate in abasement [3.5s] | MKT9.173 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=87] MMK3#064 p.041 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-43.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the ephemeral and the eternal, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB07579 | 110 | Persian | ای منوچهر منوچهر مینو و بانوی پریچهر داشت و افسر و دیهیم بلند چون ماه و مهر | O Manuchehr, Manuchehr possessed of celestial grace and fairest countenance, adorned with crown and diadem lofty as the moon and sun [3.5s] | YARP2.380 p.298 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-304.html] RMT.160-161b [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the ephemeral and the eternal | |||||||||
| AB04360 | 170 | mixed | ای دل بسته عالم بالا و ملا اعلی آنچه بچشم ظاهر مشهود و موجود از عالم پست و | O heart, bound unto the realms above and the Supreme Concourse, whatsoever is visible and manifest to the outward eye in this nether world [3.5s] | INBA13:064b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=32] INBA88:349 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=383] | BSHN.140.268 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-275.html] BSHN.140.444 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-451.html] BSHN.144.268 BSHN.144.438 HDQI.272 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-277.html] ANDA#36 p.04 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-36] MHT1a.071 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=72] MHT1b.029 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=29] MHT2.165 YIK.289a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=298] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @the concourse on high, @material and spiritual existence; two books | ||||||||
| AB03350 | 200 | Persian | ای بنده ثابت حق هر چند از غمام بلا باران جفا پی در پی رسید بساط محنت گسترده | O firm servant of God! Even though clouds of tribulations repeatedly poured forth rains of afflictions, the field of suffering was spread, the ensemble of trial was readied | MKT6.112 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-112.html] NANU_AB#71 [https://www.bahai.org/r/604856216] | RASHT.030 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @consolation and comfort | ||||||||
| AB00675 | 480 | mixed | مکتوب آنجناب واصل گشت گویا نسیم صبای جان بود که از سبای حب محبوب عالمیان مرور | Your epistle was received, and it was as the morning breeze wafting from Sheba with the love of the Beloved of all the worlds [3.5s] | MMK6#342 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=251] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @consolation and comfort, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| AB01899 | 280 | O thou who art the daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter has been received | JWTA.015-016 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze] SW_v12#03 p.060 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_3] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @The Holy Spirit, @development of capacity and readiness, @power of prayer | |||||||||||
| AB00682 | 480 | mixed | یا من ینادی بالمیثاق فی تلک الافاق مکتوب مورخ بچهاردهم محرم الیوم جواب مرقوم | O thou who proclaimeth the Covenant in those far-flung horizons! Thy letter dated the fourteenth of Muharram hath been received, and this day the reply is written [3.5s] | INBA89:066b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=69] | PYK.234 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=251] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @spiritual transformation, @obedience to and respect for government authority | ||||||||
| AB00525 | 550 | Arabic | یا من تعطر مشامه بنفحات من روح القدس قد طالعت تحریرک الجدید و شکرت الرب المجید | O thou whose senses are perfumed with the fragrances of the Holy Spirit! I have perused thy latest letter and rendered thanks unto the Glorious Lord [3.5s] | MNMK#046 p.131 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-129.html] MAS9.081 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-82.html] KKD2.064 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/kavakib-ad-durriyyah-vol-2-complete.pdf#page=33] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @banishment to; life in Baghdad, @characteristics and conduct of true believers | |||||||||
| AB00744 | 460 | mixed | ای یاران الهی و دوستان ربانی سالها بگذرد و ایام بسر اید و بساط این حیات | O divine friends and heavenly companions! Though years may roll on and days come to an end, and the fabric of this earthly life [3.5s] | MMK2#260 p.187 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-189.html] MMK4#050 p.055 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-58.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @suffering and imprisonment, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||||
| AB04194 | 180 | Persian | یا من انجذب بنفحات الله الیوم هزاران کرور بشر در بسیط تراب اغبر محشور و شب | O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of God! Today countless myriads of human beings are gathered upon this dust-laden earth, and night [3.5s] | INBA55:304 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=306] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transcending the material condition, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||
| AB06114 | 130 | Persian | ای پاک جان محزون مباش دلخون مگرد اندوه مدار مجروح مشو عالم خاک منبت خار و | O pure soul, be not sorrowful, neither let thy heart be troubled. Carry not the burden of grief, nor suffer thyself to be wounded. For this world of dust is but a field of thorns [3.5s] | BSHN.140.206 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-213.html] BSHN.144.206 MHT2.122 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual transformation, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| ABU0861 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-11 | 350 | Persian | در طول حیات و قصر حیات اهمیتی نیست انسان صد سال در این دنیا بماند | The tragic passing of Bashir was indeed sudden.... The length and shortness of life is not considered important. Whether man lives a few years or a hundred years | KHH1.106-107 (1.148-150) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=137] | KHHE.160-162 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-10-11 SW_v08#02 p.027x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_2] PN_1914 p062 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1914.pdf#page=62] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @eulogies; reminiscences, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||
| AB05115 | 150 | Persian | امروز اعظم مقامات ثبوت و استقامت در ايمان و ايقان است و اين ثبوت و استقامت سبب تأييد و توفيق الهی | O thou dear son. Thy letter was an evidence to thy firmness and steadfastness. For today the greatest of all the stations is firmness | MMK3#069 p.045x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-47.html] | DAS.1914-07-24 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=70] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||
| AB04076 | 180 | mixed | ای منادی پیمان نامه مفصل شما چند روز پیش قرائت گردید حال از عدم مجال جواب | O Herald of the Covenant! Your detailed letter was read a few days ago. Now, owing to lack of time, a reply cannot yet be rendered [3.5s] | AVK4.445x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-449.html] TABN.042b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=42] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @past, present and future of Iran | |||||||||
| AB07463 | 110 | Persian | هر ثروتی و سرمايه ای که از اين جهان است عاقبت زيان و خسران است نهايت اين است | Every wealth and possession that is of this world ultimately leadeth to loss and detriment; such is its end [3.5s] | MMK3#086 p.057x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-59.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB07354 | 110 | Persian | ای جمشید شخص رشید شو و بقصر مشید راه یاب و بحصن حصین ملتجی شو قصر حقیقی قلب | O Jamshid! Become thou a person of noble strength, find thy way to the lofty palace, and take refuge in the impregnable fortress. The true palace is the heart [3.5s] | YARP2.438 p.331 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-337.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB02968 | 220 | mixed | ای مشتعل بذکر الهی شاطر در لغت عرب بمعنی ماهر آمده پس تو که باین اسم مسمی | O thou who art kindled with the fire of God's remembrance! In the Arabic tongue, "Shatir" signifieth one who is skilled and adroit. Since thou art named with this title [3.5s] | MMK6#579 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=423] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action | |||||||||
| AB02709 | 230 | Persian | ای دو حمامه حدیقه محبه الله نامه مفصل شما رسید خدمات شما در این بساط مذکور و | O ye the two doves nestling in the garden of the Love of God! Your detailed letter was received. Your services at this spot are recognized… | MKT3.096 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-96.html] | JWTA.019-020 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | ||||||||
| AB02938 | 220 | Persian | ای دوستان رحمانی این خاکدان فانی منزل جغدان بی وفاست و آشیان خفاشان نابینا | O friends of the All-Merciful! This earthly dust-heap is but the dwelling-place of faithless owls and the nest of sightless bats [3.5s] | INBA88:200 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=234] | MKT8.091b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-91.html] BSHN.140.315 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-322.html] BSHN.144.313 DUR4.803 MHT1a.072 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=73] MHT1b.030 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=30] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @many are called but few are chosen, @call to action | ||||||||
| AB07794 | 110 | mixed | یا من انجلت بصیرته بنور الهدی از فیض هدایت کبری حدیقه قلب آن حبیب رحمانی رشک | O thou whose insight hath been illumined by the light of guidance! Through the bounties of Supreme Guidance, the garden of that heavenly beloved's heart [3.5s] | TABN.282a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=282] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @firmness in the Covenant | |||||||||
| AB01580 | 310 | mixed | ای سرگشته و سودائی ایا وقتی اید که در شرق و غرب مشهور بشیداای گردی و رسوای | O thou bewildered and impassioned soul! Will there come a time when thou shalt become renowned in both East and West - thou wandering, disgraceful one [3.5s] | MMK6#294 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=217] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @evanescence and eternality; fana and baqa, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love as fire | |||||||||
| AB01709 | 300 | Persian | ای زائر مشکین نفس حمد کن خدا را که ترک وطن نمودی و تحمل مشقت و محن کردی طی | O pilgrim with a fragrant soul, render praise unto God, for thou hast forsaken thy homeland and endured hardship and tribulation [3.5s] | MMK3#090 p.059 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-61.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| ABU0759 | Words to Sigurd Russell et al, spoken on 1904-04-13 | 390 | Whenever the heart is happy, the atmosphere is good, no matter what or where the place may be. | PN_1904 p019 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=19] PN_1904 p030 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=30] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | ||||||||||
| AB02930 | 220 | Persian | ای دو بنده باوفای جمال ابهی مدتی بود که از فاروق بزوغ و شروقی مشاهده نشده | O ye two faithful servants of the Abha Beauty! For some time now, no dawning or rising hath been witnessed from Farooq [3.5s] | INBA87:402 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=404] INBA52:414 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=416] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB02406 | 250 | Persian | ای مشتاق موهبت پایدار تا چند در زاویه خمول از اوج قبول دور مانی و در این ظلمت | O thou who yearnest for enduring grace! How long wilt thou remain in the corner of obscurity, far from the heights of acceptance, in this darkness [3.5s] | AMK.093-094a AHB.109BE #18-19 p.316 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @call to action, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB08246 | 100 | Persian | ای موقن بالله در جمیع اوقات ملحوظ نظر عنایت جمال مبارک بوده و هستی مطمئن باش | O thou who art assured in God! Rest thou confident that at all times thou hast been, and shalt ever remain, the object of the tender gaze of the Blessed Beauty [3.5s] | MKT8.154a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-154.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | |||||||||
| AB02289 | 260 | Persian | ای یاران و دوستان من در ایام رضوان جشنی برپا نمودید و بزمی آراستید که آهنگ | O my companions and friends! During the days of Riḍván, you held a celebration and arranged a feast where melodies [3.5s] | MKT8.208b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-208.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @music and singing, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | |||||||||
| AB05801 | 140 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای منجذب بملکوت الله هر نفسی را فکری و مقصدی شب و روز در تحصیل مقصود میکوشد | O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God! Every soul seeketh an object and cherisheth a desire, | MMK1#176 p.199 [https://www.bahai.org/r/462752239] | SWAB#176 [http://www.bahai.org/r/372189901] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||
| AB03517 | 200 | Persian | غضنفر نامه محرر نموده و ستایشی بیحصر از شما کرده ... الحمد للّه در اين ايّام بخدمت کلمة اللّه و نشر نفحات اللّه | Ghazanfar hath penned an epistle and offered boundless praise of thee... praise be to God that in these days thou art occupied with service to the Word of God and the diffusion of the divine fragrances [3.5s] | MMK3#072 p.046x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-48.html] MMK6#336x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=247] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| AB00389 | 610 | mixed | ای سید بزرگوار هر چند از پیش داروی اعظم ارسال شد که نوش هر نیش بود و دریاق | O noble Siyyid! Though the supreme remedy was sent aforetime, which was the sweet antidote to every sting [3.5s] | MSBH4.484-487 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=240] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | |||||||||
| AB00635 | 490 | Persian | River of Life, The | ای دوست ملکوتی از آن دم که فراق حاصل و توجه باوروپ و امریکا نمودی هر دم یاد | O Friend of the Kingdom! Since we separated from each other, and you departed for Europe and America, I keep you in continual remembrance | BRL_DAK#0726 [https://www.bahai.org/r/757135625] MKT3.449 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-449.html] MAS5.241 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-241.html] DAUD.20 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol3/daud1/daud1.htm] VUJUD.013 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] | ROL.060-062 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/d/dawud_river_of_life.pdf] VUJUDE.019 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @growth of the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | |||||||
| AB06657 | 120 | Persian | ای بنده درگاه الهی فرج الهی فرح بعد از کدر و سرور بعد از غموم و شادی بعد از | O servant of the Divine Threshold! Divine relief cometh after distress, and gladness followeth after sorrow, and joy succeedeth grief [3.5s] | MKT8.033b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-33.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @consolation and comfort, @the ephemeral and the eternal | |||||||||
| AB00961 | 400 | mixed | Selections from the Writings of His Holiness 'Abdu'l-Bahá' | ای یاران عبدالبهاء هر چند مدتیست که بواسطه قلم و مداد با شما گفتگوای ننمودم | O ye friends of ‘Abdu'l-Baha! Though some time has passed since I wrote you letters with pen and ink, yet in the world of spirit | INBA87:432 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=434] INBA52:445 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=447] | BRL_DAK#0870 [https://www.bahai.org/r/945100510] MMK2#073 p.056 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-58.html] | BLO_PT#081.73 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_muntakhabat_makatib_2] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within | ||||||
| ABU2448 | Words spoken on 1913-04-11 in Budapest | 90 | Persian | خوبست ما بشما در کوچه آشنا شدیم بدون واسطه این نحو آشنائی خوبست الحمدلله در بداپست | It is good that we met you in the street without some sort of intermediary; it is good to make one's acquaintance this way | BDA2.231 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-239.html] | MHMD2.298 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | |||||||
| AB03203 | 210 | Persian | ای مورد مصیبت کبری مصائب و احزان از هر جهت ترا احاطه نمود و مشقت عظمی از برای | O thou who art beset by dire calamity! Afflictions and sorrows have encompassed thee from every side, and great tribulation hath been ordained for thee [3.5s] | BSHN.140.313 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-320.html] BSHN.144.311 MHT1a.077 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=78] MHT1b.035 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=35] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @soul; spirit after death, @prayer for forgiveness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB10573 | 60 | Persian | ای متوکل علی الله جهدی نما تا خادم کلمه توحید گردی و ساجد حضرت رب مجید تو | O thou who dost put thy trust in God! Strive with all thy might, that thou mayest become a servant of the Word of Unity and a worshiper of the glorious Lord [3.5s] | MKT8.135a [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-135.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||||
| AB08992 | 90 | O thou who art rejoiced at the Kingdom of God! The letter indicating thy great wish to be a maidservant of the Cause of God | TAB.220 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA220] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB07800 | 110 | mixed | یا من توجه الی الافق الاعلی سلطنت خسروی و حشمت پرویزی بباد رفت و هیچ شهریاری | O thou who hast turned towards the Most Exalted Horizon! The sovereignty of Khosrow and the splendour of Parviz have been scattered to the winds, and no monarch remains [3.5s] | YBN.076 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=81] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB04314 | 170 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان حین ورود و خروج مسافرین و ایام مکث ایشان در آنشهر خدماتی | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! During the arrival and departure of the travellers, and in the days of their sojourn in that city, thou didst render services [3.5s] | YARP2.436 p.329 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-335.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice | |||||||||
| AB09208 | 80 | Persian | ای بنده الهی گوش شنوا بگشا و نصیحت عبدالبهاء بشنو در این دار فانیه ثمره و | O servant of God, open thy hearing ear and hearken unto the counsels of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. In this mortal world, the fruit [3.5s] | MMK2#263 p.191 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-193.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB07771 | 110 | Persian | نامه مفصل شما رسید و بر مطالب مفصله اطلاع حاصل گردید آنچه سبب عزت انسانست | Your detailed letter was received, and its contents were thoroughly noted. That which is conducive to the exaltation of man [3.5s] | YIK.101-101 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=110] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| ABU0746 | Words to pilgrims in June 1906 | 400 | See, how for the sake of a trifling gain, people subject themselves to terrible difficulties and suffering and trial... When we were in Tihran, Mirza Aqa Khan of Nur was the Prime Minister | PN_1906 p041 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=41] SUR.244-245 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=251] BLO_PN#001 [https://bahai-library.com/ali-khan_pilgrim-notes_1906] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @martyrs and martyrdom | ||||||||||
| AB00240 | 760 | mixed | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای یاران جانی عبدالبهاء شرق معطر نما غرب منور نما نور ببلغار ده روح بسقلاب | O ye close and dear friends of Abdu'l-Baha! In the Orient scatter perfumes, And shed splendours on the West. Carry light unto the Bulgar… Make haste to love! | MKT2.273 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-273.html] MNMK#101 p.185 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-183.html] MMK1#218 p.260 [https://www.bahai.org/r/669087292] MILAN.146 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/146.jpg] AKHA_110BE #12 p.02 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_120BE #11 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AMK.045-046 AVK3.167.13x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-171.html] AVK3.477.17x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-481.html] BCH.065 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=62] ABB.180x [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol6/qubayn/qub180.gif] MAS5.144 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-144.html] ADH2.094x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_2#17 p.122x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MSHR4.053x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=49] MMG2#286 p.317x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-320.html] MSBH4.036x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=16] YHA1.379x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=381] BDA1.357.06x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-357.html] KHH2.081 (2.151)x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/355.pdf#page=102] | SWAB#218 [http://www.bahai.org/r/841968650] TAB.566-570 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA566] BSC.305 #623-628 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v04#01 p.020-021 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_1] MHMD1.376x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=401] TEW.007-010 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EK1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false] BSTW#125 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=48] | B. Weber [https://bryanweberdevotions.bandcamp.com/track/make-haste] N. Hamilton [https://noahethamilton.bandcamp.com/track/make-haste-to-love] Nickole & Alexander [https://youtu.be/XOXnCWt0Lg0] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @prayer for peace and unity, @spiritual transformation, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | ||||||
| AB01959 | 280 | Persian | ای مشتعل بنار محبه الله اشعار بلیغی که از حنجر روحانی صادر در محضر اینعبد | O thou who art enkindled with the fire of the love of God! The eloquent verses that issued forth from the spiritual throat were presented in the presence of this servant [3.5s] | MMK2#309 p.226 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-228.html] AKHA_123BE #03 p.j [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] BSHN.140.157x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-164.html] BSHN.144.157x MHT2.076x NANU_AB#47x [https://www.bahai.org/r/113471368] RSR.045-046 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/rsr.pdf#page=41] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | |||||||||
| AB06933 | 120 | Persian | ای میرپنج هر چند از صدمه جفا در پیچ و تابی و از بیوفاای روزگار در مشقت و عذاب | O Mirpanj, though thou art writhing from the blows of cruelty, and art in torment through the faithlessness of these times [3.5s] | ANDA#76 p.50 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-76] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @consolation and comfort, @the ephemeral and the eternal | |||||||||
| AB03750 | 190 | mixed | ای مسعود ملکوتی از تلون این دنیای فانی و تغیر احوا?? امور جسمانی خاطر مگدر | O celestial Masoud! Let not thy heart be troubled by the vicissitudes of this fleeting world and the ever-changing conditions of corporeal affairs [3.5s] | INBA89:170 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=173] | MMK5#286 p.214 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-217.html] RAHA.015-016 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/raha.pdf#page=19] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @prayer for nearness to God, @consolation and comfort, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for forgiveness | ||||||||
| AB05698 | 140 | mixed | ای سرگردان کوه و بیابان در سبیل رحمن هر جمعی پریشان گردد و هر سر و سامانی | O wanderer of mountain and desert in the path of the Merciful! Every gathering shall be scattered, and every order and arrangement shall come undone [3.5s] | MMK2#288 p.209 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-211.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB07320 | 110 | Persian | ای ثابت بر پیمان حمد کن خدا را که در وطن مالوف بخدمت رب روف مالوفی و مانند | O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Render thanks unto God that in thy familiar homeland thou art occupied in service to the All-Merciful Lord [3.5s] | MKT6.120 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-120.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| AB05226 | 150 | Persian | ای طالب رضای الهی در این جهان فانی کسی را بقاای نه و نفسی را ثبات حیاتی نیست | O seeker of divine good-pleasure! In this fleeting world, none is granted permanence, nor hath any soul constancy of life [3.5s] | MMK2#174 p.127 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-129.html] KASH.269 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bahaiyan-i-kashan.pdf#page=269] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB04216 | 180 | O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God! Thy letter was received. It became the cause of great joy | DAS.1914-03-14 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=49] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement, @light and darkness, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB03991 | 180 | O thou maidservant of the Kingdom! Thy service in the Kingdom of God | SW_v09#14 p.163 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_14] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @high station of the true believer, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB07495 | 110 | Persian | ای عکاس حق شناس الحمد لله که خدا را شناختی و جان باختی و کار خویش ساختی و | O thou discerning photographer! Praise be to God that thou hast recognized thy Lord, laid down thy life, and perfected thine own task [3.5s] | MKT9.156a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=78] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @praise and encouragement, @compassion; kindness | |||||||||
| AB02553 | 240 | Persian | ای دو کنیز عزیز درگاه احدیت پدر بزرگوار الحمد لله در افق شهادت کبری کوکب | O ye two cherished handmaidens of the Court of Divine Unity! Your noble father, praise be to God, hath become a star in the heaven of martyrdom [3.5s] | YBN.049 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=54] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB12148 | 380 | O daughter of the Kingdom! Your letter arrived. Its content was an expression of heavenly feelings. In the world of existence, nothing can unite hearts like the Kingdom of God | BBBD.534-535 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB01728 | 300 | mixed | ای متوکل علی الله جمیع مسطورات آنجناب مطالعه گردید و بر وقوعات اطلاع حاصل | O thou who reliest upon God! All thy letters have been perused and their contents noted [3.5s] | MMK6#044 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=35] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @personal instructions, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @consolation and comfort, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution | |||||||||
| AB03934 | 180 | mixed | ای بنده الهی آنچه مرقوم نموده بودی ملحوظ گردید الحمد لله مومن بحضرت پروردگاری و | O servant of God! That which thou hadst written was noted. Praise be to God, thou art a believer in the Lord, thy Creator [3.5s] | INBA87:193 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=195] INBA52:193c [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=195] | MMK2#340 p.245 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-247.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @parents and children; youth; families, @consolation and comfort, @spiritual transformation, @love of God, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | ||||||||
| AB05541 | 140 | mixed | ای بلبل گلستان محبت الله در این عرصه هستی که بن و بنگاه نیستی است صد هزار مشغولیتی | O nightingale of the rose-garden of God's love! In this arena of existence, which hath neither root nor foundation, a hundred thousand preoccupations beset thee [3.5s] | INBA55:131 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=133] | MMK2#107 p.084 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-86.html] KASH.390 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bahaiyan-i-kashan.pdf#page=390] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @music and singing, @spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha | ||||||||
| AB02154 | 270 | mixed | دوست مهربانا حضرت سفیر جلیل جناب میرزا فتح الله خان دام اقباله بکاشانه این | O kind friend! His Excellency, the illustrious ambassador, Mirza Fathullah Khan—may his prosperity continue—to this dwelling [3.5s] | MMK6#377 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=277] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @newspapers and the media; publications, @praise and encouragement | |||||||||
| ABU0985 | Words to a mother, spoken on 1913-05-15 | 310 | Persian | بتربیت الهی تربیت شوند نه مثل اینکه حالا مادران از بدایت عمر به پسران میگویند | How are your children? Are they well? Do you give them an ideal education? The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow. | BDA2.301x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-309.html] | DAS.1913-05-15 MHMD2.398x | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @education of children; moral education, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @spiritual transformation, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | |||||||
| AB02868 | 220 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای ابناء و بنات ملکوت طیور مبارک شکور همواره پرواز در اوج اعلی خواهند و آرزوی | O ye sons and daughters of the Kingdom! Thankful, the birds of the spirit seek only to fly in the high heavens | MMK1#148 p.172 [https://www.bahai.org/r/154883040] | SWAB#148 [http://www.bahai.org/r/443179167] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @spiritual transformation, @thankfulness; gratitude, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | |||||||
| AB08130 | 100 | Persian | ای شهریار تاجداران عالم شب و روز مرادشان کشورگشاای و گیتی ستانی اما چه فائده | O Sovereign of the monarchs of the world! Night and day their desire hath been to conquer lands and seize dominion, but to what end [3.5s] | YARP2.540 p.385 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-391.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @material and spiritual existence; two books | |||||||||
| AB08310 | 100 | mixed | ای ورقه موقنه انسان را در این خاکدان بقاای نه چه که مرغ چمنستان و مرغزار | O leaf of certitude! Man hath no lasting abode in this dust-heap, being even as a bird of meadow and plain [3.5s] | MMK2#124 p.096 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-98.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB08593 | 90 | Persian | ای بنده حق سرمست ساغر رحمانی باش و طالب عون و عنایت حضرت ربانی اگر لذائذ وجود | O servant of truth! Be thou intoxicated with the chalice of the All-Merciful, and seek thou the aid and bounty of the Lord Divine. Though earthly delights [3.5s] | MMK3#095 p.063 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-65.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @love of God, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB01712 | 300 | mixed | ای سرمست پیمانه پیمان نوع انسان در اینجهان کلا و طرا بادیه پیمایند و بی بن و | O thou who art intoxicated with the chalice of the Covenant! All of humankind in this world are but wanderers in the wilderness, rootless [3.5s] | MKT5.086 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-87.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @love of God, @high station of the true believer, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance | |||||||||
| ABU1455 | Words to a number of visitors, spoken on 1914-03-28 | 220 | In the material world perfect composure and tranquility are not destined for man. Somehow, somewhere he is attacked by the depressing condition of the times. | DAS.1914-03-28 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=88] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @law of transformation and change, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | ||||||||||
| AB03643 | 190 | Persian | ای بنده درگاه حضرت پروردگار از قرار روایت برخی از تواریخ سلف چنین معلوم که | O servant at the threshold of the Lord! According to certain chronicles of old, it hath become evident that [3.5s] | YARP2.631 p.433 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-439.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| ABU2611 | Words to Hannen, Latimer et al, spoken on 1912-08-01 | 80 | All the people of the world are sowing their seeds in brackish ground and they write on the surface of the water. Therefore you must consider that all their efforts are fruitless. | PN_1912_heh p023 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912_heh.pdf#page=23] PN_1912 p009 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=9] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @high station of the true believer, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow | ||||||||||
| AB09127 | 80 | mixed | اشرفا شرف عالم انسانی امروز بموهبت ربانیست و عزت ابدیه در آفاق بپرتو اشراق | The nobility and exaltation of the human world today are due to divine bounty, and eternal glory shineth across all horizons through the radiance of enlightenment [3.5s] | MKT9.003a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=2] HDQI.282a [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-287.html] ANDA#41-42 p.08 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-41-42] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @high station of the true believer | |||||||||
| ABU0074 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-27 | 1400 | In the world of creation every cause has a magnetic focus, a center of attraction around which revolves its powerful activities and interests... The magnetic center of the Bahá'í Cause ... is steadfastness. | DAS.1915-05-27 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @high station of learning, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection, opposition and persecution | ||||||||||
| AB06646 | 120 | mixed | ای بنده حق آسیاب جهان در گردش است و جمیع خلق مانند دانه نرم و محو از این جنبش | O servant of the True One! The millstone of the world is in perpetual motion, and all created things, like unto grains, are ground and obliterated by this movement [3.5s] | BSHN.140.419 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-426.html] BSHN.144.413 MHT1a.069 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=70] MHT1b.027 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=27] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @light and darkness, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | |||||||||
| ABU0662 | Words spoken on 1915-09-22 in Haifa | 440 | Persian | خوبی جسمانی چه ثمر دارد. اگر در خدمت امرالله و تذکر و تنبه بگذرد صحت اهمیت دارد والا اگر این نباشد چه اهمیت دارد | Of what benefit is physical wellbeing? Should health be expended in service to God's Cause and in remembrance and vigilance, then verily it is of consequence; otherwise, if this be not so, of what import is it? [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-09-22 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @love of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @service to others; to the Cause of God | ||||||||
| AB04311 | 170 | O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Today the glance of the favor of His Holiness, Bahá'u'lláh is directed to those souls who are full of the love of God | BSTW#018 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=23] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @firmness in the Covenant, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | |||||||||||
| AB00959 | 400 | mixed | ای ورقه متضرعه الی الله در این عالم نساای بی حد و بیحساب خارج از حد و شمار | O leaf supplicating unto God! In this world women are limitless and beyond reckoning, surpassing all count and measure [3.5s] | MKT7.153 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-157.html] MSHR4.304x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=300] NANU_AB#44 [https://www.bahai.org/r/190471287] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||||
| AB10476 | 60 | Persian | ای جمشید جمشید را روش راستی و هوشیاری و خوشخوای و نیکوای بود و بپاداش این | O Jamshid! The path of Jamshid was one of uprightness, vigilance, geniality and goodness, and in recompense for this [3.5s] | YARP2.469 p.348 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-354.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @excellence; distinction | |||||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-162.html] | SW_v19#11 p.347 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_11] MHMD1.176 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=201] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @eulogies; reminiscences, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @martyrs and martyrdom | |||||||
| 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 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-171.html] | MHMD1.185-186 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=210] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @empty learning; false spirituality, @development of capacity and readiness, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge | |||||||
| AB08781 | 90 | mixed | ای طالب حق دیده را از حجاب اوهام احزاب پاک و مبرا فرما تا بعین یقین نور مبین | O seeker of truth! Purge thine eyes from the veils of the delusions of the sects, that with the eye of certitude thou mayest behold the manifest light [3.5s] | MKT6.153 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-153.html] BSHN.140.389 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-396.html] BSHN.144.384 MHT1b.220 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=220] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||
| AB02615 | 240 | O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of God! Verily, I read thy words of thanksgiving to God, for He hath guided the beloved of God | TAB.411-412 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA411] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @call to action, @praise and encouragement, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual transformation | |||||||||||
| AB05007 | 150 | Persian | الحمد لله بتجربه رسیده که زندگانی این عالم را مزیت و حلاوتی نه و گلسان حیات | Praise be to God! Experience hath shown that life in this mortal world possesseth neither merit nor sweetness, and the garden of existence [3.5s] | BSHN.140.473 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-480.html] BSHN.144.466 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment | |||||||||
| AB03771 | 190 | Persian | ای موقنان ای مقبلان نامه شما ملاحظه گشت و بر حال حزین غمگین شدیم ولی امید | O ye faithful ones, O ye who have advanced towards God! Your letter was perused, and We were saddened at your grievous state. Yet there is hope [3.5s] | MMK3#291 p.214 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-216.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual transformation, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| AB04472 | 170 | Persian | ای ناظر بمنظر اکبر حکایت کنند اسکندر رومی جهانگشا بود و کشورستان و چون از | O thou who gazest upon the Most Great Scene! It is related that Alexander of Rome was a conqueror of the world and subduer of countries. And when [3.5s] | INBA55:145 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=147] INBA59:232a [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=234] | BSHN.140.307 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-314.html] BSHN.144.305 ANDA#58 p.42 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-58] MAS5.047 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-47.html] MHT1a.108 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=109] MHT1b.066 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=66] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @stories; anecdotes, @power of faith; power of the spirit | ||||||||
| AB07278 | 110 | mixed | ای بنده حق آنچه در این جهان فانی نظر نمااید چیزی جز سراب نیابی و بغیر از | O servant of the True One, whatsoever thou beholdest in this mortal world, thou shalt find naught but a mirage [3.5s] | MMK3#061 p.039 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-41.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @praise and encouragement, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God | |||||||||
| AB05986 | 140 | ...The days of human existence are like vanishing shadows. Compared to the world of Reality, they are brought to a close with extreme speed. | DAS.1913-09-01x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_04.pdf#page=18] BSC.449 #819x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v16#07 p.583x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_7] ABIE.264x [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||||
| AB04032 | 180 | Persian | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | ای طالب ملکوت نامه ات رسید از مصیبت کبری وفات قرین محترمت مرقوم نموده بودی | O thou seeker of the Kingdom! Thy letter was received. Thou hast written of the severe calamity that hath befallen thee | MMK1#170 p.195 [https://www.bahai.org/r/488727430] | SWAB#170 [http://www.bahai.org/r/424108207] BWF.378-379x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#2044x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2044] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @consolation and comfort, @education of children; moral education, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||
| AB08116 | 100 | mixed | ای سلاله آن روح مجسم پی پدر مهربان گیر و بر قدم آن بنده یزدان مشی نما منقطع | O scion of that embodied spirit! Follow in the footsteps of thy loving father and walk in the path of that servant of God [3.5s] | MMK3#057 p.037 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-39.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB01175 | 360 | Persian | ای بنده با وفای جمال ابهی هر چند اینعبد واقف مشقت و بلایای آنجناب بود و مطلع | O faithful servant of the Blessed Beauty! Though this servant was well aware of thy tribulations and afflictions, and fully apprised [3.5s] | MMK3#222 p.161 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-163.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @thankfulness; gratitude | |||||||||
| AB10555 | 60 | ...The world is mortal. In one instant it will pass away; but the principle of ease and tranquillity is the soul | SW_v07#16 p.151x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @consolation and comfort, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @soul; spirit after death, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | |||||||||||
| AB04002 | 180 | Persian | ای دو کنیز خداوند عزیز از فرقت جناب اسمعیل حرقت نجواید و حسرت ننمااید و کدورت | O ye two handmaidens of the glorious Lord! Grieve not at your separation from Isma'il, neither let sorrow overtake you, nor gloom [3.5s] | BSHN.140.461 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-468.html] BSHN.144.455 MHT1b.214 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=214] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @consolation and comfort, @soul; spirit after death, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||
| ABU1194 | Words to Mrs Chase, spoken on 1912-10-19 | 270 | You are very welcome. I have come to pay you a visit. I was exceedingly sad and heartbroken when I heard of the departure of Mr. Chase. | PN_1912 p016 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=16] BSTW#346 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=66] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @consolation and comfort, @martyrs and martyrdom, @bringing forth results; fruit, @eulogies; reminiscences, @soul; spirit after death, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | ||||||||||
| AB09444 | 80 | Persian | ای کنیز الهی نامه شما رسید امیدوارم که عاقبت تو خیر باشد و اسباب آسایش و راحت | O handmaid of God! Thy letter was received. I hope that thine end may be blessed and the means of comfort and tranquility secured [3.5s] | YARP2.721 p.478 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-484.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @consolation and comfort | |||||||||
| ABU0563 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 490 | Those who lack wisdom think that the worlds of God are limited to the material universe. They deny that there are spiritual realms. | AELT.187-190 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=234] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @soul; spirit after death, @realms of being; three realms; five realms | ||||||||||
| ABU1354 | Words spoken on 1914-07-25 | 240 | It is related that Saboktakeen, one of the renowned ancient kings of Persia, lived | DAS.1914-07-25 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=72] SW_v09#18 p.204-205 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_18] STAB#041 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=41] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @stories; anecdotes | ||||||||||
| AB01238 | 350 | mixed | ای بنده صادق درگاه الهی ارض کاف از بدایت اشراق نور الطاف ظهور و بروز ایتلاف | O thou sincere servant of the divine Threshold! From the dawning radiance of the light of divine favors, the land of Káf hath witnessed the emergence and manifestation of unity [3.5s] | MSHR5.225-226 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=221] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @music and singing, @unity; oneness of humanity | |||||||||
| AB05303 | 150 | Persian | ای مهرپرور این خاکدان تنگ و تار و انسان آواره و بیسر و سامان لهذا دانا دل | O thou who fosterest love, this narrow and darksome realm of dust, and man, wandering and without shelter or rest - therefore be thou wise of heart [3.5s] | YARP2.132 p.151 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-157.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @call to action, @praise and encouragement, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience | |||||||||
| AB02125 | 270 | mixed | ای یار مهربان سمع مشتاقان همواره منتظر استماع خبر دوستانست و قلب تفقد نام و | O thou compassionate friend! The ears of the longing ones ever await to hear tidings of their friends, and the heart yearneth for news of their names [3.5s] | MKT8.207 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-207.html] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @call to action, @power of love, @teaching the Cause; call to teach | |||||||||
| ABU0426 | Words to some Christians, spoken on 1914-12-26 | 600 | The deeds which are perpetrated by the present civilized Christian nations of Europe are opposite to the commandments of Christ. He shuns their association | DAS.1914-12-26 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=14] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @call to action, @justice and wrath of God, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @critique of Western values; culture, @war and peace, @Christian doctrine and practice | ||||||||||
| ABU1102 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14 | 290 | In the world of humanity, every person is stimulated by a certain objective-point | DAS.1914-05-14 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=16] SW_v05#08 p.117-118 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_8] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @call to action, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty | ||||||||||
| AB02877 | 220 | mixed | ای امین عبدالبهاء دو طغرا مکتوب شما یکی بتاریخ ۲۵ صفر ۱۳۳۷ و دیگری بدون تاریخ | O trusted one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Two missives bearing thy signature have been received, one dated the 25th of Ṣafar 1337, and the other without date [3.5s] | MMK6#141x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=106] YIA.379a [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=375] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @business; financial; property matters, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @prophecy and fulfillment, @service to others; to the Cause of God | |||||||||
| ABU1293 | Words spoken on 1912-10-17 in San Francisco | 250 | Are you well? Are you all well? If you are not happy, who can be happy? Look at the people of the world | ECN.155 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=155] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @bringing forth results; fruit, @development of capacity and readiness, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day | ||||||||||
| ABU2616 | Public address given on 1913-02-17 | 80 | This is the work. All else save this has no result. Humanity must become illumined with the light of the Kingdom, otherwise all our efforts will remain fruitless. | DAS.1913-02-17 | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @attaining the life of the spirit, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @spiritual transformation | ||||||||||
| AB05469 | 150 | O thou persecuted handmaiden of God! Although rich women may be brought up in utmost ease | SW_v14#05 p.137-138 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @attaining the life of the spirit, @martyrs and martyrdom, @consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness | |||||||||||
| AB01504 | 320 | O thou herald of the Kingdom of God! The foundation of all the monarchs of the earth, notwithstanding their imperial sovereignty, royal purple | DAS.1914-07-30 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=82] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity | |||||||||||
| AB04567 | 170 | Arabic | Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá | یا امه الله المشتعله بنار محبته لاتحزنی من العسره و العناء و لاتفرحی من | O thou handmaid aflame with the fire of God's love! Grieve thou not over the troubles and hardships of this nether world… Rely upon God. Trust in Him. Praise Him | MNMK#059 p.140 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-138.html] MMK1#150 p.173 [https://www.bahai.org/r/239759820] | SWAB#150 [http://www.bahai.org/r/696063369] | The Joburg Baha'i Choir [https://joburgbahaichoir.bandcamp.com/track/rely-upon-god] S. Peyman [https://youtu.be/58SU7Eduh40] Sabria, Efe, Rafael & Maarten [https://youtu.be/whpbfKHPzMw] R. Peterson [track 9] [https://9starmedia.com/rose-marie-peterson-wave] E. Mahony [https://music.elikamahony.com/track/rely-upon-god] L. Slott [https://youtu.be/qzLwzTKyA6Q] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times | ||||||
| ABU3037 | Words spoken on 1914-04-01 | 50 | My happiness was complete in those dark days of imprisonment and vicissitude | DAS.1914-04-01 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=97] SW_v08#19 p.240 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_19] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | ||||||||||
| ABU1308 | Words spoken on 1915-10-03 in Haifa | 240 | Persian | ما تسلیمیم، اگر انسان تسلیم نباشد آن وقت گیر امتحانات می افتد. لنبلونکم بشئ من الخوف و الجوع و نقص | We are submissive. Should man fail to submit, he will verily fall into the trials and tribulations. We shall surely try you with something of fear and hunger and loss [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-10-03 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | ||||||||
| AB12795 | 240 | Persian | ای مفتون حقیقت و منجذب ملکوت الله عالم بشریت هر چند در مدنیت طبیعی ترقی نموده | O thou who art enamored of truth and drawn to the Kingdom of God! Though humanity hath progressed in material civilization [3.5s] | BRL_DAK#1117 [https://www.bahai.org/r/647565191] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | |||||||||
| AB09788 | 70 | Trk | ای اسکندر اسکندر یونانی قطعه آسیاای و قطعات سائره دن دخی بعض جوانبی استیلا | O Alexander! Alexander of Greece did conquer parts of Asia and certain regions besides [3.5s] | INBA72:150b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=153] | MJT.097 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_alvah_munajat-hayeh_turki] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | ||||||||
| AB10955 | 50 | Persian | ای مرد پارسی سلطنت خسروی هر چند قطعه آسیا را بتزلزل آورد ولی عاقبت چون باد | O man of Persia! Though the sovereignty of Khusraw shook the regions of Asia, yet in the end it vanished like the wind [3.5s] | INBA16:085 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=87] | ALPA.051a YARP2.060 p.102 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-108.html] RMT.063b [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] | @transience; worthlessness of the physical world | ||||||||
| ABU2552 | Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-05-30 | 80 | One must eat in moderation. Man is not created for food. He must not indulge in eating too much. Overeating is the cause of many diseases. | DAS.1913-05-30 | @transcending the material condition, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @knowledge; recognition of God, @love of God, @education and the development of capacity | ||||||||||
| AB05230 | 150 | Persian | ای طالب ملکوت نامه رسید ذکر حریت من نموده بودی عبدالبهاء از اصل آزاد است اگر | O seeker of the Kingdom! Thy letter was received, wherein thou hadst made mention of freedom. 'Abdu'l-Bahá is inherently free. Should [3.5s] | MMK5#010 p.004 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-7.html] | @transcending the material condition, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @true liberty; freedom |
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