Partial inventory: all items by Abdu'l-Bahá, details

Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; Abdu'l Bahá's Tablet of the Two Calls

در باب یازدهم آیهء اول از مکاشفات یوحنا میفرماید "و نئی مثل عصا بمن داده شد

In Revelation 11:1–2 it is said: “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod

MFD#11 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-37.html] OOL.C022.11 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-11-fa]

SAQ#11 [http://www.bahai.org/r/759985721] GPB.092x [http://www.bahai.org/r/654278409]

@symbolism, @apocalyptic imagery, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @spiritual transformation, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

AB00020

Lawh-i-Dr Forel (Tablet to Dr Forel)

3770

Persian

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

ABU0001

Words to Mr Pinchot and others, spoken on 1912-06-04

3400

mixed

امیدواریم در مجلس شما مائده آسمانی بخوریم آن بالتمامه مطابق مذاق ماست زیرا

We hope that in this gathering we shall partake of the heavenly table… The solution of this problem is one of the fundamental principles of his holiness BAHA’O’LLAH

BRL_DAK#0644 [https://www.bahai.org/r/064853840] AVK4.335x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-339.html] AVK4.340bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-344.html] AVK4.466x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-470.html] KHF.265 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=268] KHAB.290 (300) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.110 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-112.html]

BSC.340 #666-670x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] FWU.038x [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v07#09 p.077-079+081-084 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_9] SW_v08#01 p.007x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_1] SW_v09#07 p.086-087x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_7] SW_v13#09 p.231x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_9] SW_v13#12 p.324x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] SW_v14#02 p.036x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] SW_v16#03 p.456-457x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_3] SW_v16#11 p.706x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_11] STAB#128 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=128] STAB#140 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=140]

MHMD1.120 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=145]

@the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @war and peace, @elections, @stories; anecdotes, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @consultation

AB00021

Tafsir-i-Ayat-i-az Suriy-i-Jinn (Commentary on the Surah of the Jinn)

3270

Arabic

الحمد لله الاول بلا اول و الاخر بلا آخر الذی خلق الارض و السماء و ابدع

Praise be to God, the First without beginning and the Last without end, Who hath created the earth and the heavens and brought forth through His power of creation [3.5s]

BMT.153 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/258.pdf#page=156] NSS.157bx [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=155]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @outward and inward meanings, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @prophecy and fulfillment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God

AB00022

Lawh-i-Du-Niday-i-Falah va Najah (Two Calls to Success and Prosperity)

3040

mixed

Tablet of the Two Calls

ای اهل ملکوت ابهی دو ندای فلاح و نجاح از اوج سعادت عالم انسانی بلند است

O ye concourse of the Kingdom of Abha! Two calls to success and prosperity are being raised from the heights of the happiness of mankind…

MKT1.307 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-306.html] MNMK#106 p.192 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-190.html] MMK1#225 p.272 [https://www.bahai.org/r/777965512] MILAN.017 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/017.jpg] AKHA_106BE #08 p.02x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK4.288bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-292.html] AYT.523bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-523.html] DWNP_v3#03-4 p.024-025x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] DWNP_v6#09 p.009x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] MAS5.109 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-109.html] YHA1.017x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=19] BSDR.506 DLS.082 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/675.pdf#page=92] OOL.C009 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw09-fa]

SWAB#225 [http://www.bahai.org/r/247504693] ADJ.054-055x [http://www.bahai.org/r/138409678] GPB.309x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366481740] WOB.042x [http://www.bahai.org/r/365308127] SW_v06#09 p.065-068+070-072 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_9] SW_v13#12 p.324x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] SW_v13#09 p.236x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_9] BW_v02p054-055x [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol02-1926-1928.pdf#page=54] BSTW#382 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=54]

@historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @unity in diversity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @war and peace, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

AB00023

Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Celestial Spheres)

3020

Arabic

Tablet of the Universe (Lawh-i-Aflákiyyih); Abdu'l-Bahá — de l'Univers

Lawh-i-Aflakiyyih (Tablet of the Universe)

الحمد لله الذی جعل اسمائه و صفاته لم یزل نافذه احکامها فی مراتب الوجود

Praise be to God Who hath ever caused His Names and Attributes to penetrate the degrees of existence

INBA55:048 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=50] INBA59:027b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=29] UMich962.036-050 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.150-170 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

MKT1.013 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-12.html] MNMK#006 p.047 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-45.html] MILAN.001 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/001.jpg] AVK2.150.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-151.html] MAS5.147x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-147.html] ADH2.093x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_2#16 p.121x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#122 p.140x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-143.html] YHA1.375x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=377] DLS.319 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/675.pdf#page=329] OOL.C005 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw05-ar]

BLO_PT#142 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_lawh_aflakiyyih]

Treatise highlighting the intimate connection between physical and spiritual realities and laws. Opens with an exordium on the names and attributes of God, which move "in the firmament of perfection in descending and ascending arcs", and "in the orbits of sanctity and circles of glorification", occupying "spiritual spheres" which are "subtle", "fluid", and "vibrating". Explains that since motion is intrinsic to existence, and this motion must be governed that order and perfection may be maintained, a universal attractive force was brought into being between the "holy and resplendent suns" and their planets and satellites. Emphasizes that the creation of God has no limits. Clarifies that the preceding are "spiritual truths pertaining to the spiritual world" and that material truths can also be inferred from this, for "physical things are signs and imprints of spiritual things". Describes the interconnected and relative nature of "earthly" and "heavenly", "material" and "spiritual", "accidental" and "essential", "particular" and "universal", "foundation" and "structure". States, quoting a Hadith, that particular and universal realities in both the physical and spiritual realms are infinite. Explains that the divine grace is manifested according to capacity, both individually in the human reality and collectively in this new cycle: thus "in this most great manifestation ... the gates of revelation and discovery have been thrown wide open". Clarifies that it is not possible that God's grace should have appeared all at once, but that a gradual and progressive revelation is necessary. Warns that the knowledge and sciences of past ages are "superstitious fancies" compared to those realities which have become unveiled in this Revelation, and so all matters must be weighed in the balance of this Cause. Directs that all things be investigated "in a methodical and scientific way", and that conventional wisdom be rejected, in order "to discover the undisclosed verities and the hidden mysteries, which are concealed in the inmost heart of the universal realities". Reiterates that the discoveries and opinions of earlier philosophers, including those regarding the celestial spheres, were unsound, since it is only in this age that the mathematical sciences have been systematized. Defends the statements of the Prophets about the celestial spheres, that they merely referred to the orbits of the planets. Affirms that the planets move within a subtle, fluid and vibrating substrate, and that "the heavens are a restrained wave because a void is impossible and inconceivable". Rejects the notion that the celestial spheres are solid and glassy. Returns to the topic of the errors of the ancient philosophers, in relation to the orbit of the Earth around the sun: while Pythagoras, Plato and Aristarchus affirmed the correct theory, their opinions were based on presentiment and not on evidence; while most of the sages, including al-Farabi, followed the erroneous theory of Ptolemy (in contradiction to the explicit text of Qur'an 36:38). Reiterates that sound scientific theories are supported by logical proofs and careful observation, as well as being "in conformity with the principles of the universal themes expounded in the divine sciences". Praises the careful observations of Copernicus. Closes with a prayer in praise of God and this Day and asking for steadfastness.

@celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @infinity and eternity, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

AB00024

Lawh-i-'Ahd va Mithaq (Last Tablet to America)

2840

mixed

Commentary on the Tablet of the Branch and the Covenant

ای یاران الهی عبدالبهاء شب و روز بیاد شما و بذکر شما مشغول زیرا یاران الهی

O ye friends of God! Abdu'l-Baha is day and night thinking of you and mentioning... Consider! The Divine Gardener cuts off the dry or weak branch

BRL_DAK#0951 [https://www.bahai.org/r/867222794] MKT3.410 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-410.html] AKHA_106BE #03 p.02x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK3.092.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-96.html] AVK3.090.06x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-94.html] AYT.488x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-488.html] HHA.335x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=344] RHQM1.131 (168x) (099-099x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=78] OOL.C006 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw06-fa]

BWF.429-438 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] GPB.250x [http://www.bahai.org/r/236689479] GPB.251x [http://www.bahai.org/r/015402989] GPB.309-310x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366481740] PDC.024x [http://www.bahai.org/r/909871128] BSC.551 #994x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v13#01 p.019-025 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_1] ABCC.450-451x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=480]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @prayer for firmness in the Covenant, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly

AB00025

Lawh-i-'Ammih (Tablet to the Aunt)

2740

mixed

Lawh-i-'Ammih (Tablet to the Aunt)

قد اشرقت الانوار و القوم فی عمه عظیم قد ظهرت الاسرار و الناس فی دهش قدیم

O kind aunt! The world hath been stirred into motion by the life-giving breezes of the disposition of thy august Brother

CMB_F60 CMB_F61 CMB_F62 PR20.008 [https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0234]

MKT2.168 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-168.html] YHA1.374x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=376] OOL.C007 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw07-fa]

LTDT.289-291x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LTDT.pdf#page=306]

@suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual transformation, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @chastisement and requital, @call to action, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB04989

Lawh-i-Ibn-i-Abhar

2700

mixed

یا من قام علی خدمه المیثاق آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید

O thou who hast arisen to serve the Covenant! That which thou didst write hath been perused [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0139 [http://www.bahai.org/r/700795094] MMK6#330x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=243] YIA.363-371 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=359] YMM.299x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=307]

@defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @education of children; moral education, @predictions and prophecies

AB03551

2680

Arabic

فاعلم یا ایها السائل الجلیل بان هذا الطیر قد وقع بین مخالب المنکرین

O thou noble inquirer, know thou of a certainty that this bird hath fallen into the clutches of the deniers [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0648 [https://www.bahai.org/r/321861473] YMM.329x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=337]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0002

Public address given on 1912-11-08

2660

God is one, the effulgence of God is one, and humanity constitutes the servants of that one God

ABB.054 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol6/qubayn/qub054.gif] BDA1.361n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-361.html]

PUP#121 (p.402-410) [http://www.bahai.org/r/069461941] FWU.092 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v06#01 p.003-005+006-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_1] PN_1912 p041x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=41]

MHMD1.380 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=405]

@purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @human reality created in the image of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

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

ABU0004

Public address given on 1912-08-16

2530

Every subject presented to a thoughtful audience must be supported by rational proofs.... We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena

PUP#089 (p.253-261) [http://www.bahai.org/r/469251465] BSC.353 #683 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] FWU.086 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#16 p.005-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_16] SW_v08#10 p.124-125 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] PN_1916 p003x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1916.pdf#page=3]

@development of capacity and readiness, @love of God, @the human soul, @power of the mind over nature, @existence; immortality of the human soul, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

AB00026

Lawh-i-Mahmud Furughi

2440

mixed

ای گمگشته بادیه پیما اگرچه چون باد بادیه پیماای ولی از جام عنایت سرمست

O thou who art lost and wandering in the desert! Though thou roamest the wilderness like unto the wind, thou art intoxicated with the wine of divine bounty [3.5s]

INBA13:364 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=182] INBA21:168 (209) [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=85] INBA59:260 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=262] INBA88:299 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=333]

BRL_DAK#0640 [https://www.bahai.org/r/928055786] AKHA_135BE #16 p.318x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] BSHN.140.227 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-234.html] BSHN.144.227 DUR1.342x MSHR2.103x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-105.html] MSHR4.319x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=315] MJMJ2.037x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-38.html] MMG2#028 p.028x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-31.html] MHT2.173 QUM.215x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @relationship between government and people, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

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

ABU0006

Public address given on 1912-06-02

2430

Persian

کلیسا را بیعه نامیده اند یعنی محل بیعت این اصطلاح کتاب مقدس است

In the terminology of the Holy Books, the church has been called the "House of the Covenant".... Temples are symbols... There is no doubt that if the world of the Occident should abandon dogmas.... The law of God is a collective center

BRL_DAK#0643 [https://www.bahai.org/r/915478264] BDA1.112.x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-112.html]

LOG#0739x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n739] LOG#2078x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2078] LOG#2096x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2096] PUP#060 (p.163-171) [http://www.bahai.org/r/500673226] SW_v03#10 p.025-029 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] SW_v05#16 p.246-247+248 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_16] SW_v06#17 p.146-148 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_17] SW_v08#10 p.125 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] SW_v14#05 p.145 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5] SW_v14#05 p.147 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5] MHMD1.120 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=145] BW_v01p060x [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/bahai-year-book-vol01-1925-1926.pdf#page=60]

@changing and unchanging parts of religion, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @equality of men and women, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @unity of thought and belief, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization

ABU0007

Public address given on 1912-06-08

2410

Persian

نهایت سرور را امشب دارم که بین جمع محترم حاضر شدم فی الحقیقه جمعی است در

I have the utmost pleasure this evening in being present. Truly this is an assembly

BRL_DAK#0632 [https://www.bahai.org/r/359381087] MJTB.083x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] KHF.243 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=246] KHAB.310 (319) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.138 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-140.html]

BWF.235-242 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#063 (p.176-182) [http://www.bahai.org/r/586577104] FWU.069 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v05#07 p.102-103+105-106 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_7] SW_v08#08 p.097 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8]

@power of the mind over nature, @harmony of science and religion, @equality of men and women, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @universal language, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal education, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0008

Public address at Stanford University on 1912-10-08

2330

Persian

اعظم منقبت عالم انسانی علم است زیرا کشف حقایق اشیاست و چون امروز خود را در

The greatest attainment in the world of humanity has ever been scientific

BRL_DAK#0654 [https://www.bahai.org/r/080055584] KHF.207 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=210] KHAB.380 (386) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.267 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-269.html] NJB_v05#01 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_1]

PUP#110 (p.348-355) [http://www.bahai.org/r/162778846] SW_v03#12 p.010-014 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_12] ECN.267 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=267]

@law of transformation and change, @universal peace; world unity, @war and peace, @harmony of science and religion, @need for an educator, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @high station of learning, @power of the mind over nature, @universal human capacity for spiritual recognition, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0009

Public address given on 1912-11-06

2320

Persian

فی الحقیقه در این سفر نهایت انصاف و محبت را از اهالی امریکا دیدم و ملاحظه نمودم که از هر جهت حریت افکار

Praise be to God! The standard of liberty is held aloft in this land. You enjoy political liberty... O Thou compassionate Lord, Thou who art generous and able!

BDA1.359.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-359.html]

BPRY.112x [http://www.bahai.org/r/211579583] PUP#118 (p.390-397) [http://www.bahai.org/r/758040793] FWU.079 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v05#13 p.195-199 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_13] SW_v05#13 p.200 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_13] MHMD1.377-378x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=402]

Emily Price & Van Gilmer [https://youtu.be/3Uz_iPckRGs]

@love and unity, @the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @harmony of science and religion, @war and peace, @equality of men and women, @being a source of light; guidance, @unity in diversity, @freedom of thought and action

ABU0010

Words spoken at Unitarian church in Dublin, 1912-08-11

2300

mixed

در نزد عموم عقلا مسلم است که عالم طبیعت ناقص است و محتاج تربیت ملاحظه میکنید

That the world of nature is imperfect and needs education is to the wise beyond question. Consider, man uneducated is in utmost barbarism

BRL_DAK#0639 [https://www.bahai.org/r/141146088] AMK.248-258 MJMJ1.090x MMG2#163 p.185x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-188.html] MJH.036x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-37.html] KHF.042 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=45] KHAB.355 (362) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.212 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-214.html] NJB_v03#16 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_16] YFY.141x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/yfy.pdf#page=139]

SW_v14#02 p.042-045 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2]

@second birth, @education of children; moral education, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @spiritual transformation, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @Manifestation of God as divine physician, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @need for an educator

ABU0012

Public address given on 1912-09-05

2260

Promulgation of Universal Peace; Christians, Muhammadans, and Jews

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

ABU0011

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1919-08-07

2260

BKOG.057-059x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BKOG.pdf#page=23]

@early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @stories; anecdotes

ABU0013

Words spoken on 1912-10-06 in San Francisco

2260

Persian

حقیقت الوهیت بر جمیع کائنات بمحبت طلوع نموده زیرا محبت اعظم فیض الهی است مصدر

The origin of creation is love, inasmuch as love is the greatest of divine effulgences. The reality of divinity has cast an effulgence of love upon all phenomena.

BRL_DAK#0653 [https://www.bahai.org/r/641120530] PYB#234 p.11x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/234.PDF#page=11] PYM.026x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-26.html] KHTB2.255 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-257.html] NJB_v05#16 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_16]

ECN.235+1090 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=235]

MHMD1.307 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=332]

@love and unity, @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @unity in diversity, @religion as source of love and unity, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0014

Words to Shaykh Salih, spoken on 1915-01-11

2230

Persian

از بس میترسی خوابهایت هم مغشوش و مشوش است مثل قصه آن شخص میماند که در روضه

Because you are so frightened, your dreams are also disturbed. Your situation is like the story of the man who would attend rawdih-khanís

KHH1.150-158 (1.208-219) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=181]

KHHE.222-232 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] STAB#022 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=22]

@stories; anecdotes, @accounts of dreams and visions, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0015

Public address given on 1912-10-12

2220

mixed

اول موهبت الهیه در عالم انسانی دین است زیرا دین تعالیم الهی است البته تعالیم

The first bestowal of God in the world of humanity is Religion, because religion consists of divine teachings.

KHF.098 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=101] KHTB2.307 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-309.html] BDA1.299.02 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-299.html]

BWF.270-280 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#112 (p.361-370) [http://www.bahai.org/r/586533574] BSC.388 #718 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#13 p.003-007+010-011 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_13] SW_v06#16 p.121 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_16] DWN_v4#05-6 p.102-112 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-4-burma-1926] MHMD1.316-324 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=341] BLO_PT#022 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_christians_muhammadans_jews] ECN.329+846 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=329]

@Muhammad; Islam, @Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @Christ; Christianity, @Moses, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU0017

On the creation of the world: words to Miss St. and others in summer of 1910

2200

Wir haben wohl alle heute etwas Zeit, über dieses ebenso schwierige wie wichtige Thema zu reden und der Ort

SDW v01#01 p.007-010 [https://de.bahai.works/Sonne_der_Wahrheit/Jahrgang_1/Heft_1] SDW v01#02 p.025-027 [https://de.bahai.works/Sonne_der_Wahrheit/Jahrgang_1/Heft_2] SDW v18#06-07 p.179-185 [https://de.bahai.works/Sonne_der_Wahrheit/Jahrgang_18/Heft_6]

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @evolution; human evolution, @creation of the world, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @relationship of the soul to the body, @soul; spirit after death, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @absolute freedom; independence of God

ABU0016

Public address to International Peace Forum, spoken on 1912-05-12

2200

Persian

Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and Christianity

چون نظر بتاریخ میکنیم ملاحظه مینماایم که از اول عالم الی زماننا هذا بین بشر

When we glance at history, we find that from the beginning up to the present

BRL_DAK#0637 [https://www.bahai.org/r/466005424] KHF.073 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=76] KHAB.264 (274) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.060 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-62.html] BDA1.083.09 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-83.html]

LOG#1418x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1418] PUP#047 (p.116-122) [http://www.bahai.org/r/637883857] BSC.311 #630 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] FWU.022 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#09 p.012-016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_9] SW_v05#09 p.131-135 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_9] SW_v15#01 p.023 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_1] SW_v19#05 p.143 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_5] MHMD1.092-098 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=117]

@suffering and imprisonment, @unity in diversity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @justice and wrath of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action

ABU0018

Interview with Pasteur Monnier at his theological seminary in Paris, 1913-02-17

2180

Persian

Interview with Pasteur Monnier (1913)

احوال حضرات را بپرس اسقوف عرض کرد الحمد لله سلامتیم و مسرور از تشریف

How are you?... I am likewise most happy... One endowed with the gift of hearing gets the mysteries of God from all things

AVK2.172.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-173.html] AVK4.331x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-335.html] KHF.148 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=151] KHAB.418 (421) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.061 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-63.html]

DAS.1913-02-16 SW_v04#03 p.051-055 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_3] ADP.147-158 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147] BLO_PT#002 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_christ_christianity_monnier] STAB#062 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=62]

@Christ; Christianity, @the cross and the trinity, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @oneness; unity of religion

question and answer session.

ABU0019

Public address given on 1912-08-29

2160

In the Books of the Prophets certain glad tidings are recorded which are absolutely true and free from doubt

WOB.075x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647076745] LOG#1733x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1733] PUP#097 (p.289-296) [http://www.bahai.org/r/017404071] FWU.072 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU]

@independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity in diversity, @nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil, @East and West; communication between East and West, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @need for an educator, @oneness; unity of religion, @literal interpretation, @blind imitation [taqlid], @evolution; human evolution

AB00028

2110

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی نزل الایات بالحق و جعلها کالبحر المتلاطم المواج تقذف دراری

Praise be to God Who hath sent down the verses in truth and made them even as a surging and tempestuous ocean casting forth pearls [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0647 [https://www.bahai.org/r/251938129] MMK6#282 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=208] MSHR1.128x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-130.html]

@symbolism, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @literal interpretation, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @the Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

AB00029

Some Answered Questions #009 Baha’u’llah

2110

Persian

Address to the Theosophical Society, An

اما جمال مبارک در زمانیکه ممالک ایران در چنین ظلمت و نادانی مستغرق

Baha'u'llah appeared at a time when Persia was plunged in the darkest ignorance

MFD#09 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-23.html] OOL.C022.09 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-09-fa]

SAQ#09 [http://www.bahai.org/r/415965635] GPB.144x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/228781524] GPB.183x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/671288170] GPB.196x [http://www.bahai.org/r/379539153] STAB#081 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=81]

@banishments of Baha'u'llah, @past, present and future of Iran, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prophecy and fulfillment, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @growth of the Cause, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals

ABU0021

Public address given on 1912-09-14

2100

I have the utmost of happiness this afternoon to be present at this revered meeting

BLO_PT#007 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_address_theosophical_society]

MHMD1.263 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=288]

@realms of being; three realms; five realms, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @maintainance of degrees in society, @equality of men and women

ABU0020

Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-18

2100

Persian

حمد میکنم خدا را که با شما هستم باسباب ظاهره و قوه ملکی چنین مجلسی فراهم نمودن

I praise God that I am with you. Such an assembly would be utterly impossible to hold through worldly power and outward means

BDA1.380.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-380.html]

PUP#131 (p.442-447) [http://www.bahai.org/r/737197362] FWU.104 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v06#08 p.059-061+064 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_8] DWN_v6#08 p.001-002x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] MHMD1.399x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=424]

@station of the Manifestation of God, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @second birth, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @praise of Western values; culture, @unity in diversity, @blind imitation [taqlid], @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

AB00030

Some Answered Questions #010 Rational and Traditional Proofs from the Sacred Scriptures

2070

Persian

امروز در سر این سفره قدری از برهان صحبت بداریم اگر در ایام ظهور نور مبین

Today at table let us speak a little of proofs. Had you come to this blessed spot in the days

MFD#10 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-30.html] OOL.C022.10 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-10-fa]

SAQ#10 [http://www.bahai.org/r/340198067] GPB.092x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/654278409] GPB.196x [http://www.bahai.org/r/379539153]

@miracles and their interpretation, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @twin Manifestations, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @prophecy and fulfillment

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

ABU0023

Public address given on 1912-07-14

2030

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

ABU0024

Public address given on 1912-08-27

2000

Upon the faces of those present I behold the expression of thoughtfulness and wisdom

PUP#096 (p.284-289) [http://www.bahai.org/r/321774683] FWU.057 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU]

@passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @The Holy Spirit, @harmony of science and religion, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @universal peace; world unity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @heat and motion, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @second birth

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

AB00031

Tafsir-i-Ayat-i-az Suriy-i-Furqan

1950

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی تجلی علی اهل الامکان و افاض انوار الجمال لمن فی الاکوان بطراز

Praise be to God Who hath revealed Himself unto the peoples of the contingent world and shed the effulgent lights of His beauty upon all created things [3.5s]

BMT.073 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/258.pdf#page=76]

ABU0026

Interview with Rev. J. T. Bixby at Hotel Ansonia in New York, 1912-04-13

1930

The origin of man is one; the consummate intention of all human existence must likewise be one.... The solution of economic questions... Consider the kingdom of the animals; there is no strife among them on account

BSC.446 #813x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#08 p.005-008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_8] SW_v07#15 p.147 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v12#05 p.107-108 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_5]

@oneness; unity of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @station of the Manifestation of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0027

Public address given on 1912-06-16

1900

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

ABU0028

Address at Turanian Society of Budapest, Budapest, 1913-04-14

1890

Persian

در عالم انسانی این چه قدر مدار افتخار است که در بوداپست مملکت غرب انجمنی تشکیل شود

What a source of pride this is for humanity—that in Budapest, which is in the West, a society should be formed for the advancement and improvement of the condition of the Easterners...Qurratu'l-'Ayn (Tahirih) was eloquent. Her writings and poems are available today. Every one of the learned of the region praised her... In the Christian Dispensation it was Mary Magdalene who was the cause of the steadfastness of the disciples

BRL_DAK#0824 [https://www.bahai.org/r/920111192] MAS5.247x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-247.html] KHF.255 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=258] KHAB.428 (430) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.095 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-97.html]

BRL_ATE#206x [https://www.bahai.org/r/844911752] STAB#131x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=131] ADMS#109 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0028/]

@Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn], @role and station of women, @equality of men and women, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0029

Public address to Naturalist Association of San Francisco, spoken on 1912-10-10

1880

Persian

امشب مریض بودم احوالم خوب نبود لکن محض محبتی که بشما دارم با وجود علیلی مزاج

Although I was feeling indisposed this evening, yet owing to the love I entertain for you I have attended this meeting. For I have heard

AMK.280-286 AVK1.170.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-195.html] KHTB2.297 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-299.html] NJB_v05#03 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_3]

PUP#111 (p.355-361) [http://www.bahai.org/r/257277168] ECN.297+1065 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=297]

@evolution; human evolution, @power of the mind over nature, @man's distinction from the animal, @divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @mind as intermediary between soul and body

ABU0030

Public address given on 1912-06-09

1860

mixed

من از مملکت بعیده شرق میایم مملکتی که همیشه نور آسمان در آن طلوع نموده مملکتی

I come here from distant countries, from Oriental climes… O Thou forgiving Lord! Thou art the shelter of all these Thy servants… Baha’u’llah hath proclaimed the universality of education, which is essential to the unity of mankind

BRL_DAK#0184 [http://www.bahai.org/r/458459090] KHF.228 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=231] KHAB.303 (312) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.129 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-131.html] NJB_v04#12 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_12]

BRL_ATE#107x [http://www.bahai.org/r/998941264] BPRY.082-083x [http://www.bahai.org/r/102797521] LOG#0492x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n492] LOG#2097x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2097] PUP#062 (p.172-176) [http://www.bahai.org/r/309849209] SW_v05#07 p.099-102 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_7] SW_v09#07 p.085 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_7]

S. Tirandaz [https://tirandaz.bandcamp.com/track/praise-and-gratitude-4]

@equality of men and women, @oneness; unity of religion, @harmony of science and religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for protection, @Manifestation of God as mirror

ABU0031

Address at Theosophical Society of Paris, 1911-12-06

1850

mixed

اعظم فضائل عالم انسانی حکمت الهی است و حکمت عبارت از اطلاع بحقائق اشیا علی ما

The supreme virtue of the human world is divine wisdom [divine philosophy] [3.5s]... ...Philosophy consisteth in understanding the reality of things even as they are, and the knowledge of this reality and its comprehension is not possible save through divine philosophy

AMK.216-224 AVK1.067x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-92.html] AVK2.129.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-130.html] KHF.143 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=146] KHAB.209 (219) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.243 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-245.html] KHTP.179 VUJUD.104x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] VUJUD.122.07x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf]

VUJUDE.211x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] VUJUDE.161x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf]

@power of the mind over nature, @The Holy Spirit, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @man's distinction from the animal, @harmony of science and religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @proofs for the existence of God, @independent investigation of truth; reality

ABU0033

Public address given on 1912-12-04

1850

Persian

نفوسی که خبر از عالم حقیقت و تتبع در کائنات ندارند اکتشاف حقایق

Those who are uninformed of the world of reality, who do not comprehend the

ANDA#43-44 p.161 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] KHTB2.333 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-335.html] BDA1.405.02 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-405.html]

PUP#139 (p.462-468) [http://www.bahai.org/r/316279997] BSC.292 #598 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] FWU.107 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v07#08 p.069-071+074-076 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_8] MHMD1.423-429 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=448]

@literal interpretation, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as educator, @creation of the world, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @the human soul, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness

ABU0032

Words spoken at Minneapolis synagogue in Minneapolis, 1912-09-18

1850

Persian

بسیار مسرورم که خود را بین این جمع می بینم الحمد لله وجوه نورانی نفوس روحانی

I am most delighted to find myself in this gathering. Praise be to God! These faces are radiant, these souls spiritual [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0642 [https://www.bahai.org/r/822978461] AHB.123BE #07-08 p.191x KHF.104 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=107] KHTB2.245 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-247.html]

@oneness; unity of religion, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @nationalism; love of country, @Moses, @war and peace, @Christ; Christianity, @harmony of science and religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @independent investigation of truth; reality

ABU0034

Words to Mayor Stitt Wilson of Berkeley, spoken on 1912-10-05

1810

I have always had the utmost longing to come to America and associate with the revered members of the societies of international peace

ECN.683+941 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=683]

@the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @war and peace, @religion as source of love and unity, @equality of men and women

ABU0035

Public address given on 1912-10-06

1800

The most important issue confronting humanity today is one religious in character. Religion should be the cause of fellowship and unity among mankind

ECN.248+976 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=248]

MHMD1.308 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=333]

@oneness; unity of religion, @Christ; Christianity, @suffering and imprisonment, @unity in diversity, @war and peace, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @teachings as spirit of the age, @relativity of religious truth

ABU0036

Words spoken at Westminster Palace Hotel in London, 1912-12-20

1800

Scientists tell us that the world of matter is made up of constellation of molecules which hold it in its various forms; each molecule consists

SW_v03#17 p.006-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_17] SW_v08#10 p.121-122 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] SW_v12#06 p.122-123 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_6]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @suffering and imprisonment, @equality of men and women, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @war and peace, @supreme tribunal, @education of children; moral education, @universal education, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0037

Public address given on 1912-07-05

1790

Persian

بسیار بسیار خوش آمدید در جمیع کتب مقدسه الهیه بشاراتی است که بشارت میدهد روزی

You are very welcome! In the divine Holy Books there are unmistakable prophecies

AVK2.071.13x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-72.html] KHF.182 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=185] KHAB.322 (330) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.161 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-163.html] NJB_v04#01 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_1]

PUP#080 (p.220-225) [http://www.bahai.org/r/214466889] BSC.268 #552 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#11 p.006-007+009-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_11] SW_v13#06 p.146 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_6] PN_1912 p029 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=29]

@proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @chastisement and requital, @suffering and imprisonment, @predictions and prophecies, @blind imitation [taqlid], @growth of the Cause, @oneness; unity of religion, @prophecy and fulfillment

AB00032

Tablet of the Divine Plan (U.S. and Canada III)

1770

mixed

ای حواریون بهاء الله روحی لکم الفداء نفس مبارک موعود در کتاب مقدس رب الجنود

O ye apostles of Baha'o'llah - may my life be a ransom to you! The blessed person of the promised One... It behooveth the loved ones of God to be enamoured of one another and to sacrifice themselves... O God, my God! Thou seest how black darkness is enshrouding all regions... O Lord! The ocean of rebellion is surging

MKT3.027 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-27.html] AKHA_107BE #07 p.04x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_107BE #07 p.02x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_105BE #01 p.01x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] QT105.1.374 HHA.258x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=267] ADH2.072x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_2#10 p.102x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#056 p.056x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-59.html] FRTB.060 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=58]

TDP#08 [http://www.bahai.org/r/883739949] BPRY.209-212x [http://www.bahai.org/r/527321401] BWF.423-429 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] ADJ.050x [http://www.bahai.org/r/874184899] ADJ.061-062x [http://www.bahai.org/r/655063694] ADJ.062x [http://www.bahai.org/r/003703323] BADM.035x [http://www.bahai.org/r/617807515] COF.007x COF.020x [http://www.bahai.org/r/671652623] COF.028x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366432570] COF.069x [http://www.bahai.org/r/097876207] GPB.238x [http://www.bahai.org/r/178395478] GPB.254x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647760190] TDH#158.5x [http://www.bahai.org/r/755603488] TDH#158.17x [http://www.bahai.org/r/679994757] TDH#158.23x [http://www.bahai.org/r/988050800] COC#0252x BSC.539 #985 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v11#02 p.032-037 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_2] SW_v10#06 p.104 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_6] SW_v12#14 p.228+236 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_14] SW_v14#03 p.085 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_3] DWN_v2#05 p.034 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] DWN_v5#09 p.002-003x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927]

B. Lisbeth [https://bonnielisbeth.bandcamp.com/track/have-mercy-feat-joel-grainger] Nadia, Zaynab & Earl [https://youtu.be/nP9XzbAIe_A] R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 3] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan]

UDP.055

@prayers (general or uncategorized), @methods of teaching the Cause, @firmness in the Covenant, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @prayer for pioneers and travel teachers, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause

AB00033

1760

mixed

مراسله آنجناب واصل و بر وقوعات و هذیان مفتریان اطلاع حاصل گردید از اینگونه

Thy letter was received, and the doings and ravings of the calumniators described therein have been noted [4o]

INBA59:254 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=256]

BRL_DAK#0725 [https://www.bahai.org/r/602576452] MKT5.118 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-119.html] MSHR3.097x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-99.html]

@consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @stories; anecdotes, @petitions to authorities, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU0038

Address to the Baha'is at Thompson home in New York, 1912-11-15

1760

I have spoken in the various Christian churches and in the synagogues, and in no assemblage

PUP#128 (p.431-437) [http://www.bahai.org/r/306152907] SW_v08#03 p.029-031+039-040 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_3] DJT.368-369x [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027x [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @power of the Manifestation of God, @predictions and prophecies, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity; oneness of humanity, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @harmony of science and religion, @universal language, @equality of men and women, @universal education

AB00034

1750

mixed

و انی اتقرب الیک یا الهی فی جنح هذه اللیله الظلماء و اناجیک بلسان سری مهتزا

O my Lord! I have drawn nigh unto Thee, in the depths of this darksome night, confiding in Thee with the tongue of my heart

INBA16:037 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=39] INBA75:029x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=35]

MKT6.081 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-81.html] MKT4.185 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-185.html] MNMK#002 p.007x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-5.html] MNMK#089 p.158x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-156.html] MMK1#002 p.004 [https://www.bahai.org/r/780093941] MILAN.072 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/072.jpg] AKHA_128BE #04 p.ax [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_135BE #05 p.95x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AYBY.373 #058 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-382.html] DUR2.048x ADH2.027x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_1#14 p.024x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.042x MMG2#301 p.334x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-337.html] MJH.007x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-8.html] YHA1.365x (2.731) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=367] YHA1.371x (2.744) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=373]

SWAB#002 [http://www.bahai.org/r/574283513] TAB.366-375 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA366] ADJ.026x [http://www.bahai.org/r/293314070]

M. Saraswati [https://meisaraswati.bandcamp.com/track/o-sea-of-all-bestowals] Andreas & Amal [https://youtu.be/tWABtGw9LT8] L. Slott [https://youtu.be/ztoxLeWMqcY]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @spiritual transformation, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @The Holy Spirit, @spiritual springtime

ABU0039

Public address given on 1912-10-07

1750

Persian

امشب در نهایت سرورم که خودم را در بین این جمع

It is a great happiness to be here this evening, especially for the reason that the members of this Association have come from the region of the Orient.

KHTB2.288 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-290.html] NJB_v12#05 p.112 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_5]

COC#0043x PUP#109 (p.343-348) [http://www.bahai.org/r/928720774] JWTA.042-047 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze] ECN.258+1009 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=258]

@oneness; unity of religion, @Muhammad; Islam, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @Christ; Christianity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

ABU0040

Public address given on 1912-10-25

1730

When Christ appeared, certain blessed souls followed His example. They were with their Master

LOG#2092x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2092] PUP#113 (p.370-376) [http://www.bahai.org/r/076346163] MAB.086x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=111] ECN.359 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=359]

@independent investigation of truth; reality, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @unity; oneness of humanity, @equality of men and women, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @harmony of science and religion, @martyrdom of the Bab, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah

ABU0041

Public address given on 1912-05-30

1720

Persian

از احساسات جناب رایس نهایت خشنودی را دارم و همچنین از احساسات وکیله ایشان

I am most pleased with these expressions of kindly feeling and evidences

BRL_DAK#0636 [https://www.bahai.org/r/191830673] KHF.092 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=95] KHAB.253 (263) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.098 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-100.html] NJB_v12#07 p.144 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_7]

PUP#058 (p.156-160) [http://www.bahai.org/r/265695342] FWU.100 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v04#03 p.055+056-058 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_3]

@ether; the phenomenon of light, @divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal, @universal peace; world unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @essential vs. actional attributes of God, @unity in diversity

AB00035

Some Answered Questions #007 Muhammad

1720

Persian

اما حضرت محمد ، اهل اروپا و امریکا بعضی روایات از حضرت رسول شنیده‌اند

Now as to Muḥammad, the people of Europe and America have heard certain tales about the Prophet

MFD#07 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-16.html] OOL.C022.07 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-07-fa]

SAQ#07 [http://www.bahai.org/r/049820925] DWN_v5#02 p.004-009 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] DWN_v6#05 p.002-005 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928]

@Muhammad; Islam, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @rejection of Muhammad, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy, @religion as source; stimulus of knowledge and science

AB00036

Some Answered Questions #081 Reincarnation

1720

Persian

آنچه گفته میشود ما را مقصد بیان حقیقت است توهین عقاید ملل دیگر نیست

Our purpose in what we are about to say is to express the truth and not to denigrate the beliefs of others

MFD#81 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-199.html] OOL.C022.81 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-5-07-fa]

SAQ#81 [http://www.bahai.org/r/106426435]

@reincarnation, @spiritual transformation, @arcs of ascent and descent, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds

AB00037

1710

mixed

حمدا لمن لاح برهانه و ظهر سلطانه و عم احسانه و بانت محجته البیضاء و ظهر شریعته

Praise be unto Him Whose proof hath shone forth, Whose dominion hath been made manifest, Whose bounties have encompassed all, Whose clear path hath appeared, and Whose Law hath been revealed [3.5s]

INBA89:133 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=136]

BRL_DAK#0721 [https://www.bahai.org/r/610937743] MKT1.382 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-381.html] DWNP_v3#11 p.021-022x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] DWNP_v4#02-3 p.010-014x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-4-burma-1926] ANDA#73 p.05x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-73] YHA1.329x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=331] YHA1.341x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=343] HYB.131x AMIN.135-144 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf]

@praise and encouragement, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for forgiveness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @exhortations and counsels

AB00038

1700

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان و مرد میدان مکاتیب متعدده آنجناب واصل و بر کیفیت اطلاع حاصل... از جمله اخبارات بظهور مبارک در کتاب دانیال

O thou who art firm in the Covenant and a champion in the field! Numerous letters from thee were received and their contents were noted... Among them were the tidings concerning the blessed Manifestation in the Book of Daniel [3.5s]

MMK3#102 p.067x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-69.html] MMK4#166 p.182x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-185.html] YMM.154x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=162] YMM.211x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=219] YMM.367x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=375]

@Adam; Adam and Eve, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @reincarnation, @predictions and prophecies, @prophecy and fulfillment, @prayer for strength

ABU0042

Public address given on 1912-09-03

1700

It seems as though all creatures can exist singly and alone. For example, a tree

PUP#102 [http://www.bahai.org/r/469722961] FWU.038 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v07#17 p.171-172x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_17] SW_v08#01 p.013x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_1] SW_v13#09 p.227-230 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_9] ABIC.010-013 ECN.689x + 946x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=689] STAB#047 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=47]

@the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @maintainance of degrees in society, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00039

1660

Arabic

حمدا لمن تقدس بذاته عن مشابهه مخلوقاته و تنزه بصفاته عن مماثله مکوناته و تعزز

Praise be unto Him Who in His Essence hath sanctified Himself above all likeness to His creatures, and Who through His Attributes hath exalted Himself beyond all similitude to His creation, and is glorified [3.5s]

UMich962.058-065 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.027-038 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0720 [https://www.bahai.org/r/543127914] MKT1.002 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-1.html] MNMK#007 p.058 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-56.html] YHA1.373x (2.749) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=375]

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @mystical themes, @power of the Manifestation of God, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @station of the Manifestation of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0043

Public address given on 1912-08-17

1660

Are you all well and happy? This is a delightful spot; the scenery is beautiful

PUP#092 (p.264-270) [http://www.bahai.org/r/327881162] SW_v08#07 p.076-080 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_7]

@one universal law; attractive power of love, @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion

AB00040

1630

Persian

دوست حقیقی مهربان اثر خامه عنبرنثار آن یار وفادار چون نفحه گلشن اسرار مشام

O true and loving friend! The effect of the musk-diffusing pen of that faithful companion was even as a sweet fragrance from the mystic rose garden wafting to the senses [3.5s]... ...You have mentioned Mirza Malkam Khan in that he has been enquiring about the conduct and the attitude of these people, although he has full and complete knowledge of the integrity of purpose

CMB_F66#12

BRL_DAK#0634 [https://www.bahai.org/r/062370447] MSHR3.261 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-263.html]

EGBBF.100-103x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/balyuzi_browne_bahai_faith.pdf]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU0044

Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901

1620

Verses 1 to 11. This story needs no explanation. The meaning of it is plainly to be understood. Verse 11. 'Neither do I condemn thee...'

SW_v08#11 p.144x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_11] SW_v08#19 p.241x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_19] PN_unsorted p066 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=66] BSTW#135 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=67] STAB#043x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=43]

@stories; anecdotes, @love of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @the cloud ['ama], @Manifestation of God as sun, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @degrees of faith; certitude, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0045

Address at Theosophical Society on 1912-10-11

1610

Many investigators of truth hold the opinion that of the seven rays of the Sun of Reality six have emanated and have passed away

ECN.310+770 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=310]

@divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal, @proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00041

1600

mixed

لک الحمد یا الهی بما فتحت ابواب ملکوت العظمه و الجلال علی وجوه احبائک و ظللت

Glory be unto Thee, O my God! For Thou hast opened the Doors of the Kingdom of Grandeur

INBA16:076 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=78]

MKT4.162b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-162.html] MMK5#094 p.075 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-78.html] AMK.187-194 BBBD.332-334 MAS5.287x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-287.html] MJMJ2.026x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-27.html] MMG2#076 p.083x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-86.html] YHA1.280-281x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=282] NJB_v05#12 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_12]

BBBD.334-339 DAS.1914-10-04 SW_v05#14 p.211-215+218 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_14] BSTW#348 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=69]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @praise and encouragement

ABU0046

Address at weekly meeting, 15 Rue de Greuze in Paris, 1913-02-14

1600

Whenever the Holy Manifestations of God appear in this world they establish their validity with certain proofs. One of their proofs is the prophecies

DAS.1913-02-14 BSTW#147 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=90]

@miracles and their interpretation, @suffering and imprisonment, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @power of the Manifestation of God, @teachings as spirit of the age, @prophecy and fulfillment, @universal peace; world unity, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals

ABU0047

Words spoken on 1912-10-22 in Oakland

1600

Praise be to God, this is a good meeting… This evening I shall relate to you the story of the sojourn of Bahá’u’lláh during the two years of his solitude on the mountain of Sarkalu.

ECN.191+485 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=191]

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @love and unity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @House of Justice

AB00042

1590

mixed

یا من فدی روحه و فواده و ذاته و کینونته و ماله و علیه فی سبیل جمال اشرقت

O thou who hast sacrificed thy spirit and heart, thy being and essence, thy substance and all thou possessest in the path of the resplendent Beauty [3.5s]

MMK5#133 p.103 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-106.html]

@call to action, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @firmness in the Covenant, @law of obligatory prayer

ABU0049

Public address given on 1912-08-18

1590

The worlds of God are in perfect harmony and correspondence one with another. Each world

PUP#093 (p.270-275) [http://www.bahai.org/r/504962841] SW_v03#15 p.004-007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_15]

@connection between material and spiritual worlds, @names and attributes of God, @prayer for peace and unity, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

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

ABU0050

Words to Anton Haddad ca. 1900

1590

To live in peace, love, union and agreement, and to overlook the faults and defects of others...

BSTW#037 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=48]

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity in diversity, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence, @methods of teaching the Cause, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @religion as source of love and unity

AB00043

1580

Persian

ای دوستان در این ایام وقوعاتی در این زندان واقع گشته و جمیع از مقدرات غیبیه

O friends! In these days events have come to pass within this prison, and all are from the hidden decrees of God [3.5s]

MMK5#028 p.024 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-27.html] MSHR3.099x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-101.html] QT108.081-083x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=81]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @obedience to and respect for government authority

ABU0051

Public address given on 1912-05-07

1580

I have come from the Orient to visit your country. Surely this continent is praiseworthy

BDA1.075n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-75.html]

LOG#0710x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n710] LOG#2101x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2101] PUP#044 (p.105-110) [http://www.bahai.org/r/452598840] SW_v03#06 p.002-004+08 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_6] SW_v15#01 p.038 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_1]

MHMD1.083 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=108]

@equality of men and women, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @universal education, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @The Holy Spirit, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0052

Public address given on 1912-09-01

1570

Persian

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

AB12107

1560

Persian

ای اشخاص محترم الحمد لله نائره حرب در اکثر بلاد خاموش گشته و صلح و سلام بیک

O respected souls! Praise be to God that the flame of war hath been extinguished in most lands, and peace and tranquility hath [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0631 [https://www.bahai.org/r/300400345]

@contention and conflict, @war and peace, @past, present and future of Iran, @universal peace; world unity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @unity of governments; political unity

AB00044

1550

Persian

ای حزب الله نامه ای بامضای شما عموما واصل گردید عبارت در نهایت ملاحت و بلاغت

O ye Cohorts of God! A letter which was signed by you in general was received... Today in the world of existence, each community is wandering in a wilderness... Be ye kind to the human world and be ye compassionate to the race of man... O Thou Provider! Thou hast breathed over the friends in the West... Well is it with you, as you have followed the Law of God and arisen to observe the Fast during these blessed days

MKT3.157 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-157.html] MNMK#092 p.166 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-164.html] MMK1#035 p.066 [https://www.bahai.org/r/375519046] DWNP_v5#05 p.005x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] DWNP_v5#12 p.002-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] DWNP_v6#08 p.001-002x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] DUR1.173x MJMJ1.100x MMG2#049 p.049x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-52.html] MMG2#370 p.412x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-415.html] MJH.043bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-44.html] KHH2.165 (2.304)x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/355.pdf#page=186]

SWAB#035 [http://www.bahai.org/r/384574753] BRL_IOPF#2.26x [http://www.bahai.org/r/307566483] BPRY.181-182x [http://www.bahai.org/r/964830518] TAB.040-048 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA40] BWF.400-401x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] ADJ.025-026x [http://www.bahai.org/r/716325250] COF.030bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/963818271] GPB.254x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647760190] BSC.488 #939x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v01#14 p.003x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_14] SW_v06#14 p.112x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_14]

jeph.ilosopher [https://jeph.bandcamp.com/track/ye-must] S. Peyman [https://youtu.be/wsjQejIbkZE] K. Porray [https://soundcloud.com/katyporray/1-friends-of-east-and-west]

@service to others; to the Cause of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @love and unity

AB00045

1530

mixed

و انت الذی یا الهی تقدست اسمائک الحسنی و تنزهت امثالک العلیا عن ادراک عقول

Thou art He, O my God, Whose most beauteous names and most sublime likenesses are sanctified above the comprehension

CMB_F65.001-005x PR12.001x [https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C0723-1-47_c0191]

NURA#72 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#173 p.196 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-199.html]

LOTW#72 [http://www.bahai.org/r/615970660]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @limits of the intellect, @prophecy and fulfillment, @suffering and imprisonment, @power of the Manifestation of God

ABU0053

Words to Jinab-i-Hizari et al, spoken in Sept. 1913

1530

Persian

اول تابستان بود میرزا آقاخان استدعا کرد که جمال مبارک به افجه تشریف ببرند

It was the beginning of summer when Mirza Aqa Khan beseeched the Blessed Beauty to grace Afjeh with His presence [3.5s]

MUH3.220-223 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=236]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0054

The Evolution of the Spirit: Words spoken at Dreyfus home in Paris, 1911-11-10

1510

Persian

امشب باید ذکری از ترقی و بقای روح بشود هر نفس موجودى لابد بر این است

Tonight I will speak of the evolution or progress of the spirit. Absolute repose does not exist in nature.

BRL_DAK#0650 [https://www.bahai.org/r/440460121] AVK1.227x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-252.html] BSHN.140.537x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-544.html] BSHN.144.525x MAS5.051-058 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-51.html] MHT1a.134x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=135] MHT1b.092x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=92] KHF.167 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=170] KHAB.150 (161) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.142 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-144.html] KHTP.090 VUJUD.098x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf]

PT#29 p.086 [http://www.bahai.org/r/876559111] VUJUDE.150x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf]

@soul; spirit after death, @composition and decomposition

ABU0055

Words spoken at The White Lodge in Wimbledon, 1913-01-03

1510

Persian

هر جزئی از اجزاء فردیه در صور نامتناهی جمادی نباتی حیوانی انسانی سیر دارد

How beautiful it is to organize such lovely gatherings... When we ponder over the reality of the microcosm, we discover that in the microcosm there are deposited three realities.

AVK1.151.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-176.html]

BSC.399 #736x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] FWU.051 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v07#13 p.117-119+124 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_13] BSTW#090 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=102] BSTW#365 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=25]

@power of the mind over nature, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East, @oneness; unity of religion, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal

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

ABU0058

Address to L'Alliance Spiritualiste on 1913-02-21

1500

We observe that every movement which establishes unity and amity brings in its train life

DAS.1913-02-21 ADP.175-184 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175]

@oneness; unity of religion, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @teachings as spirit of the age, @universal peace; world unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @unity in diversity

ABU0057

Public address given on 1912-09-25

1500

In the Orient I was informed of the lofty purposes and wonderful attainments of the American people. When I arrived in this country

PUP#108 (p.337-342) [http://www.bahai.org/r/117272712]

@changing and unchanging parts of religion, @teachings as spirit of the age, @oneness; unity of religion, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Moses, @unity in diversity, @Christ; Christianity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity

AB00046

Shaykh Ahmad and Siyyid Kazim

1500

Persian

بدانکه شیعیان ایران در اواخر ایام حقیقت شریعت‌الله را فرموش کردند و از اخلاق روحانیان بکلی محجوب

Know that in the latter days the Shí‘ahs of Persia had forgotten the truth of the religion of God

BRL_TTTP#10 [http://www.bahai.org/r/152388912] NSS.148-152 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nss.pdf#page=146]

BRL_TTT#10 [http://www.bahai.org/r/039883781]

@Letters of the Living, @symbolism, @Shaykhis, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @prophecy and fulfillment, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.

AB00048

1480

mixed

اللهم یا الهی و محبوبی و مطلوبی و مقصودی ان هذا یوم الاول من الرضوان قد اتی

O Lord, my God, my Best-Beloved, my Aim, my heart’s Desire! This, verily, is the first of the days of Ridvan… In the realm of worship, fasting and obligatory prayer constitute the two mightiest pillars of God’s holy Law

BRL_DAK#0717 [https://www.bahai.org/r/641269914] NURA#06 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#029 p.027x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-30.html]

BRL_IOPF#2.02x [http://www.bahai.org/r/632581007] LOTW#06 [http://www.bahai.org/r/671008392]

@Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @suffering and imprisonment, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @unity; oneness of humanity, @law of obligatory prayer

ABU0059

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1919-08-08

1480

Persian

میانه جمیع این نعمای جسمانی از همه لذیزتر خواب است روح انسانی یکقدری آزاد میشود

Among all the worldly bounties none is more wonderful than the dream. In this state the human spirit

AVK1.325-327x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-350.html] NJB_v14#09 p.288 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_9]

BKOG.091x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BKOG.pdf#page=23]

@meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people

AB00050

1460

mixed

ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء جناب فاروقی بعد از زیارت بعتبه مقدسه و طواف مطاف ملا

O ye dear friends of ‘Abdu’l-Baha! After his visit to the Sacred Threshold, and the Centre round which circle in adoration the Concourse on high, Jinab-i-Farúqí came to stay with ‘Abdu’l-Baha

INBA87:394 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=396] INBA52:405 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=407]

NURA#28 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#177 p.214x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-217.html] ANDA#73 p.46 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-73] MSHR2.023x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-25.html] MSHR3.051x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-53.html]

LOTW#28 [http://www.bahai.org/r/221565933] LTDT.070x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LTDT.pdf#page=87]

@rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @banishment to; life in Baghdad

AB00049

Tablet of the Divine Plan (U.S. and Canada II)

1460

mixed

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

ABU0060

Words to Drs. W. and W. Allen and Dr. J. Catton, spoken on 1912-10-21

1460

Diseases are of two kinds. There are some which are due to material cause, and such diseases should be treated according to material methods.

MAB.069-075 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=94] ECN.545 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=545]

@health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @teleology; goal-directed motion, @power of prayer, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @Greatest Name

AB00051

1450

mixed

الهی الهی ترانی خائضا فی غمار البلاء و غریقا فی بحار الباساء و الضرآء هدفا للنبال مطعونا... در خصوص آقا میرزا بدیع‌اللّه مختصری بآنجناب مرقوم گردید

My God, my God! Thou seest me immersed in the depths of tribulation, submerged in seas of hardship and distress, a target for arrows, pierced and wounded [3.5s]

MMK5#027 p.020x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-23.html] AMK.039-044

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @rejection, opposition and persecution

AB00052

1450

mixed

ای بنده حق در دورهای سابق آثار قدرت الهیه و حقیت امر هر چند واضح و باهر بود

O servant of the one true God! In cycles gone by, although the signs of God’s power and the truth of His Cause were clear and manifest, yet to outward seeming the divine tests were severe

INBA17:070 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=72]

NURA#73 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#175 p.207 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-210.html] RHQM1.200-202 (249x) (148-150x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=112] MAS5.289-292x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-289.html]

LOTW#73 [http://www.bahai.org/r/905565866]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab

ABU0061

God Comprehends All; He Cannot Be Comprehended: Words spoken at Dreyfus home in Paris, 1911-10-20

1450

mixed

الحمد لله که مجمع نورانیست در پاریس خیلی جمعیتها تشکیل میگردد و محفلها ترتیب

Numerous meetings are held in Paris every day for different purposes, to discuss politics, commerce, education, art, science and many other subjects.

AMK.236-242 KHF.122 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=125] KHAB.082 (092) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.056 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-58.html] KHTP.033

PT#05 p.010 [http://www.bahai.org/r/480764906]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU0062

Words spoken at Morse home in Paris, 1913-03-13

1450

Persian

خوش آمدید من وقتی کتاب شما را دیدم خیلی مسرور شدم میخواستم شما را ملاقات و... شما از شرق خیر دارید که چه قدر افق شرق را ظلمت تعصب و نادانی احاطه کرده بود

You are aware of the situation in the East; you know how grievously its horizon was enveloped with the darkness of ignorance and prejudice

KHF.155 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=158] KHTB3.068 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-70.html] NJB_v05#13 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_13] BDA2.200-203 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-208.html]

MHMD2.256-258

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @unity in diversity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity; oneness of humanity, @martyrs and martyrdom

ABU0064

Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921

1440

I have sent for thee. Others have had to ask for permission. I have thus honored thee.... All the believers in this cycle are in the same station when they accept the Manifestation of God and His Teachings. This is the baptism of water...

SW_v16#05 p.518x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_5] PN_1921 p006 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1921.pdf#page=6]

@spiritual transformation, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @unity in diversity, @Word of God and human limitations, @order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]

AB00054

1430

mixed

مولای مولای تقدس ذاتک عن درک العقول و الافهام و تنزهت هویتک عن الظنون

O my Lord, my Lord! Sanctified is Thine Essence above the comprehension of minds and understandings, and exalted is Thine Identity above all conjecture and fancy [3.5s]

MKT4.174 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-174.html] MILAN.106 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/106.jpg] AMK.021-024 DWNP_v3#03-4 p.023bx [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @love and unity, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @non-participation in politics, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU0066

Address to the Baha'is at home of Corinne True in Chicago, 1912-11-01

1430

I am well pleased with every person here this evening and most happy in meeting the friends

PUP#116 (p.383-387) [http://www.bahai.org/r/456743556] SW_v05#15 p.230-231+234 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_15] SW_v08#17 p.223+ 227 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_17]

The Friends in Chicago [https://youtu.be/Oc6aUsvBq-A]

@firmness in the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @martyrs and martyrdom, @suffering and imprisonment, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause

ABU0065

Baha’u’llah: Words spoken on 1911-11-07 in Paris

1430

Persian

امروز میخواهم قدری از مصائب جمال مبارک برای شما بیان کنم

I will speak to you today of Baha'u'llah. In the third year after the Bab had declared his Mission, Baha'u'llah, being accused by fanatical Mullas

AYT.372-378 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-372.html] AADA.046-048x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/831.pdf#page=53] KHAB.131 (142) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.116 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-118.html]

PT#25 p.071 [http://www.bahai.org/r/445349437]

@suffering and imprisonment, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @martyrs and martyrdom, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB00053

Paper presented to the Universal Races Congress

1430

Persian

ای اهل عالم چون در جمیع عالم سیر و سیاحت نمااید آنچه معمور است از آثار الفت

When travelling about the world we observe an air of prosperity in any country

BLIB_Or.08117.002

AVK3.205.17x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-209.html] RAHA.112-115 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/raha.pdf#page=116] DAUD.11 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol3/daud1/daud1.htm] KHAB.005 (016) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.035 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-37.html] KHTP.013 NJB_v02#14-16 p.008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14]

SW_v02#09 p.005-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_9] ABS#09 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/07/26/speech-for-the-universal-races-congress/]

@composition and decomposition, @war and peace, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity in diversity, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU0067

Words spoken at Century Club in San Francisco, 1912-10-13

1430

I am delighted to speak before this gathering of revered ladies who have met for the purpose of investigating the realities of life.

ECN.349+497n [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=349]

@role and station of women, @equality of men and women, @education of children; moral education

AB00055

1420

mixed

اللهم یا من سبقت رحمته و کملت نعمته و احاطت قدرته و تمت حجته و ظهرت ایاته

Glory be unto Thee, O Thou whose mercy hath encompassed all things, whose gift is made perfect, whose power hath encircled the world… Ye who are the sincere well-wishers of the state, who are the dutiful and compliant subjects of the government

INBA16:185 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=187]

COMP_TRUSTP#53x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trustworthiness_compilation_originals.pdf] MILAN.132 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/132.jpg] AVK3.287.07x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-291.html]

BRL_TRUST#52x [http://www.bahai.org/r/944498796] TAB.395-404 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA395] COC#2064x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_trustworthiness#2064] LOG#1473x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1473] TEW.029-035 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EK1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false]

@spiritual transformation, @growth of the Cause, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @praise and encouragement

AB00056

1420

Persian

ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء چندیست که از بعضی بلاد یک آهنگ دلربا بگوش جان نرسیده

O ye the cherished loved ones of Abdu'l-Baha! It is a long time now since my inward ear hath heard any sweet melodies out of certain regions

MNMK#123 p.235 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-233.html] MMK1#188 p.210 [https://www.bahai.org/r/921276313] ASAT4.356x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=180] BSHI.111-116 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=111]

SWAB#188 [http://www.bahai.org/r/949486547] TAB.375-382 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA375]

S. Toloui-Wallace [https://youtu.be/DNwRgwzUBqM]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for protection, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

AB00057

Some Answered Questions #048 The Difference between Man and Animal

1420

Persian

یکدو مرتبه در مسئلهء روح صحبت شد اما نوشته نشد

We have already had one or two conversations on the subject of the spirit but they were not written down.

MFD#48 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-134.html] OOL.C022.48 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-03-fa]

SAQ#48 [http://www.bahai.org/r/082430693] BWF.303-307 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@man's distinction from the animal, @the mind's power of discovery, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @power of the mind over nature, @rational arguments, @the human soul

ABU0068

Words spoken on 1914-06-29 in Haifa

1420

mixed

در تمام ایام مبارک همیشه آرزوی من این بود که روزی بیاید بلکه انشاء الله بجهتی

During all the blessed days of Baha'o'llah, my hope always was that a day would come

MAS5.230-236 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-230.html] NJB_v05#10 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_10] KHH1.250 (1.349-357) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=281]

KHHE.367-373 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-06-28 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=2] SW_v09#11 p.127-130 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_11]

@call to action, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @exhortations and counsels, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @martyrs and martyrdom, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0069

Words spoken to Miss N. on 27 Jan 1910

1420

Ich könnte Dir, meine Schwester, mit den Worten unseres Herrn Jesu Christi -- gesegnet sei Seine Weisheit -- antworten

SDW v11#01 p.007-010 [https://file.bahai.media/2/25/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_01.pdf#page=9]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @suffering and imprisonment, @light and darkness, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0070

Public address given on 1912-05-04

1410

I am very happy in being present at this meeting. Praise be to God! I see before me the faces... O Thou kind Lord! These are Thy servants who have gathered in this meeting

BDA1.067n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-67.html]

BPRY.088-089x [http://www.bahai.org/r/409536569] BWF.263-267 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#0788x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n788] PUP#038 (p.087-091) [http://www.bahai.org/r/045895401] BSC.383 #717 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#04 p.019-022 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4]

MHMD1.076 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=101]

@mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @spiritual transformation, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ABU0072

Religious Prejudices: Words spoken at Dreyfus home in Paris, 1911-10-27

1400

Persian

Some Prayers by 'Abdu'l-Bahá

چونکه تعلیم بهاء الله توحید جمیع بشر است و نهایت الفت و اتحاد و بقدر امکان

The basis of the teaching of Baha'u'llah is the Unity of Mankind, and his greatest desire was that love and goodwill should live in the heart of men.

AMK.232-236 DWNP_v1#08 p.001-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.199 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=202] KHAB.100 (109) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.079 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-81.html] KHTP.057

PT#13 p.036 [http://www.bahai.org/r/338718726] DWN_v3#02 p.015-017 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] STAB#103 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=103]

@Muhammad; Islam, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @Christ; Christianity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0073

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1915-03-04

1400

Persian

نصف شب خبر دادند که یکنفر بدوی آمده است و میخواهد من را ببیند پیغامی آورده چون او ... یک وقتی در عکا شخصی بود عبدالله پاشا نام او پیر شده ماهی هزار غروش تقاعد میگرفت و زندگی میکرد

Many years ago there lived in Akka an old retired officer by the name of Abdollah Pasha. He received from the government a pension of ten pounds a month

KHH1.191-192 (1.268-270) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=222]

KHHE.284-285 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-03-11

@business; financial; property matters, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @stories; anecdotes

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

ABU0071

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-18

1400

The Blessed Beauty has gathered the East and West together. For this reason we are very happy. It is not in fun, but is a serious matter. It is beyond comprehension.

PN_1919 p026 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=26] PN_1919 p196 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=196] LAT.056-065 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@predictions and prophecies, @suffering and imprisonment, @East and West; communication between East and West, @martyrs and martyrdom, @universal peace; world unity, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology

ABU0077

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-08-20

1400

His Honor Aqa Rida and His honor Aqa Mahmud were most sincere. They were serving day and night.

DAS.1914-08-26 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_12.pdf#page=14]

@stories; anecdotes, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @eulogies; reminiscences, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

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

ABU0076

Words to Will and Wendell Dodge, spoken on 1901-11-24

1400

In the time of the Manifestations of God people were hindered mostly in two ways. First the statements of the previous books were not understood.

PN_1901 p078 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1901.pdf#page=78] BLO_PN#109 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_utterances_young_men]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @physical limitations of the Manifestation of God, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity, @literal interpretation

AB00058

1390

Arabic

اناجیک یا الهی فی غدوی و آصالی و بهره نهاری و جنح اللیالی و ادعوک بلسانی و جنانی

I commune with Thee, O my God, at daybreak and eventide, in the bright noontide and the dark of night, and I call upon Thee with my tongue and my heart [3.5s]

INBA85:334b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=336]

BRL_DAK#0722 [https://www.bahai.org/r/627438424] MKT1.392 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-391.html] MNMK#008 p.063 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-61.html] ASAT3.046-047x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=25] MAS2.095ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-96.html] AADA.142ax [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/831.pdf#page=149]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00060

1380

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید مضمون بسیار عجیب زیرا این شبهات تازه اشتهار

O one who is firm in the Covenant! Your letter has arrived. Its contents are very strange, for these doubts are not newly widespread… As to the differences among human beings

BRL_DAK#0659 [https://www.bahai.org/r/484483813] MKT1.374 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-373.html] MKT9.077 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=39] MNMK#145 p.265 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-263.html] AKHA_105BE #11 p.02 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] PYM.305 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-305.html] MJTB.032 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] VAA.082-086 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/vaa.pdf#page=102] MJDF.040 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=40]

COC#0587x KSHK#30 [https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2018/05/06/on-darwin-and-iranian-naturalists/]

@education of children; moral education, @prophecy and fulfillment, @differences in human capacity, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @blind imitation [taqlid]

ABU0078

Address at Theosophical Society of Edinburgh, 1913-01-09

1380

Persian

??مشب چون در مجلس شما هستم بسیار مسرورم زیرا شما الحمد لله تحری حقیقت می نمااید

It gives me great pleasure to be with you this evening and to take part in your delightful gathering, for you Theosophists, Praise be to God, are always independent investigators

AMK.266-270 DWNP_v5#05 p.006x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] MAS5.048x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-48.html] MJMJ1.094x MMG2#302 p.336x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-339.html] MJH.038bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-39.html] KHF.135 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=138] KHAB.405 (409) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.053 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-55.html] NJB_v12#04 p.096 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_4]

BSTW#463 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_451-485.pdf#page=29]

S. Tirandaz [https://tirandaz.bandcamp.com/track/gatherings-3] Ahdieh [https://ahdieh.bandcamp.com/track/prayer-of-abdul-bah-2] unknown [https://youtu.be/LzRhvNIPkYM]

@relationship of the soul to the body, @proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @elementary matter cannot be annihilated, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being

Opening lines of the closing prayer, revealed by Abdu’l-Baha in this Address: "O Thou kind Lord. Illumine the inner eyes and grant attentive ears, revive the lifeless hearts and awaken the heedless from their slumber."

AB00061

Some Answered Questions #013 Commentary on the Twelfth Chapter of the Revelation of John

1370

Persian

از پیش گذشت که مراد از شهر مقدس و اورشلیم الهی در کتب مقدسه

We have explained before that what the sacred scriptures most often mean by the Holy City

MFD#13 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-53.html] OOL.C022.13 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-13-fa]

SAQ#13 [http://www.bahai.org/r/767472988]

@quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @prophecy and fulfillment, @symbolism, @suffering and imprisonment, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

ABU0079

Public address given on 1912-08-25

1360

O Thou kind God! In the utmost state of humility and submission do we entreat and supplicate

PUP#094 (p.276-280) [http://www.bahai.org/r/032837816] BSC.367 #696 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v04#07 p.117-119+122 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_7] SW_v08#08 p.099-100 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8] BSTW#485kx [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_451-485.pdf#page=77]

@continual renewal of creation, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @spiritual springtime, @station of the Manifestation of God, @need for an educator, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @spiritual transformation, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @The Holy Spirit

ABU0082

Public address given on 1912-07-31

1350

Persian

من از مسس پارسنز بسیار ممنونم که سبب شده با شماها ملاقات و معاشرت میکنم

You are all welcome. It is a source of great pleasure and we are indebted to Mrs. Parsons. I am a visitor from the Orient

KHF.171 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=174] KHAB.350 (357) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.190 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-192.html] NJB_v03#19 p.001-2 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_19]

PN_1912_heh p019x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912_heh.pdf#page=19]

@materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering, @unity; oneness of humanity, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @spiritual transformation, @East and West; communication between East and West, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

ABU0081

Words spoken at King's Weigh House Church in London, 1912-12-29

1350

Persian

خدا را شکر میکنم که در این محل جمعی از محترمین حاضرند که قلوبشان با یکدیگر

I praise God that a number of revered souls are gathered in this congregation to serve the Almighty, whose hearts are cemented together, whose faces are joyous

KHF.221 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=224] KHAB.399 (404) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.086 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-88.html] NJB_v05#09 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_9]

DAS.1912-12-29 ABS#11 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1912/12/29/dec-29-1912-weighhouse-chapel-in-london-2/]

@power of faith; power of the spirit, @unity; oneness of humanity, @unity in diversity, @universal peace; world unity, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @suffering and imprisonment, @oneness; unity of religion, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion

ABU0080

Words spoken on 1919-08-15 in Haifa

1350

mixed

تا لب دریا رفتم خیلی اینجا خوش وضعیست چون مثل دربند شمیران میماند

I walked to the seashore; this place is most delightful, for it resembles Darband in Shimiran [3.5s]

SFI06.017 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_06.pdf#page=17] SFI07.029 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_07.pdf#page=29]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @development of capacity and readiness, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00062

Some Answered Questions #082 The Unity of Existence

1340

Persian

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

AB00063

Some Answered Questions #084 The Station of Actions Performed without the Knowledge of God

1330

Persian

بدان که این اعمال و رفتار و گفتار ممدوح است و مقبول و شرف عالم انسانیست

Know that such ways, words and deeds are to be lauded and approved, and they redound to the glory of the human world.

MFD#84 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-212.html] OOL.C022.84 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-5-10-fa]

SAQ#84 [http://www.bahai.org/r/809498433]

@love of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @spiritual transformation, @unity in diversity, @race unity; racial issues, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @differences in human capacity

ABU0083

Words spoken at Clifton Guest House in Bristol, 1913-01-15

1330

Every age requires a central impetus or movement. In this age, the boundaries of terrestrial things have extended

BSC.274 #562 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v04#01 p.004-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_1] SW_v11#17 p.287 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17]

@education of children; moral education, @universal education, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @harmony of science and religion, @equality of men and women, @universal language, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @universal peace; world unity, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0085

Words spoken at Theosophical Society in Paris, 1913-02-13

1320

mixed

چون بنظر حقیقت در جمیع کائنات نظر میکنیم هر کائنی فی الحقیقه حیات دارد سابق

According to science, all forms of creation are endowed with life; this element of life and energy depending on environment and adaptations... Spirit in the human world is the discoverer.... The world of humanity has ever been in a state of anticipation of the coming of the divine Manifestations... We observe that today the means of unity are brought about. This in itself is an evidence

AVK1.113x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-138.html] KHF.139 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=142] KHAB.413 (416) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.057 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-59.html]

DAS.1913-02-13 SW_v09#01 p.007x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_1] SW_v11#17 p.291x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_17] SW_v14#01 p.011x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_1] DWN_v3#01 p.003x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] ADP.165-174 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA165]

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @the mind's power of discovery, @unity in diversity, @universal language, @infinity and eternity, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within

ABU0084

Words spoken on 1916-08-20 in Nazareth

1320

Persian

انشاء الله شمس راحت و آسایش بزودی از افق اینجهان طلوع خواهد نمود و مردم در

God willing, the sun of tranquility and repose will soon dawn above the horizon of this world and mankind will [3.5s]

NJB_v14#06 p.192 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_6]

@education of children; moral education, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @war and peace, @Christ; Christianity, @prayer for peace and unity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

ABU0086

Public address given on 1912-08-06

1310

Interview Between a Prominent Rabbi and 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Today we are enjoying temperate weather. As there are many strangers present, we will answer questions.

PUP#088 (p.247-252) [http://www.bahai.org/r/223487619] SW_v03#18 p.006-007+10 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_18] SW_v19#09 p.258 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_9] SW_v08#08 p.098-099 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8] PN_1912_heh p028 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912_heh.pdf#page=28] STAB#110 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=110]

@Christ; Christianity, @Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn], @Manifestation of God as divine physician, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @veiling [hijab], @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @oneness; unity of religion, @definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @conference of Badasht

ABU0087

Words spoken on 1915-06-17 in Haifa

1310

mixed

وقتی که جمال مبارک در بغداد بودند میرزا محیط مشهور شیخی آمد به دارالسلام

When the Blessed Beauty was in Baghdad, Mirza Muhit, the famous Shaykhi, arrived in that city for the purpose of visiting Kazimayn.

BRL_DAK#0719 [https://www.bahai.org/r/123300302] AHDA.077-078X [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=91] ZSM.1915-06-17 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

STAB#082x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=82]

@stories; anecdotes, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0088

Address given at the Hotel Iroquois, Buffalo, 1912-09-10

1300

MHMD1.253 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=278]

@prayer for spiritual recognition, @relationship of the soul to the body, @power of faith; power of the spirit, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU0089

Interview with a prominent Rabbi, New York, ca. Apr. 1912

1300

You are most welcome Rabbi. [Rabbi:] "I have long desired to meet you."

SW_v03#06 p.006-008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_6]

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @unity in diversity, @literal interpretation, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @idolatry, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @human reality created in the image of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Christ; Christianity

Interview with a prominent rabbi. Trans: SW_v03#06 p.006-008.

AB00064

1290

mixed

الهی الهی لا احصی ثناء علیک و کیف احصی الثناء و قد ذهلت عقول اولی العرفان عن

My God, my God! I cannot reckon my praise unto Thee. How can I recount Thy praise when the minds of them that are endued with understanding are astounded? [3.5s]

AYBY.417 #130 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-426.html] TRZ1.275 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf#page=1]

@Ottoman commissions of investigation, @call to action, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @martyrs and martyrdom, @obedience to and respect for government authority

ABU0090

Words spoken at Hotel Victoria in Ramleh, 1912-03-05

1290

Persian

مظاهر مقدسه الهیه هر یک عالم امکان را شمسی در نهایت اشراق بودند هر یک وقت

The sacred Manifestations of God were each, in the world of existence, even as a sun in its utmost splendor, each in its time [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0599 [https://www.bahai.org/r/946126073] KHF.001 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=4] KHAB.221 (231) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.001 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-3.html]

@Muhammad; Islam, @power of the Manifestation of God, @call to action, @banishments of Baha'u'llah, @suffering and imprisonment, @fewness of numbers not regarded in teaching the Cause, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @spiritual transformation, @growth of the Cause, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas

ABU0091

Words spoken at Theosophical Society in Paris, Nov. 1911

1280

Since my arrival in Paris, I have been told of the Theosophical Society, and I know that it is composed of

LOG#1076x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1076] PT#40 p.129 [http://www.bahai.org/r/526087403]

@independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity; oneness of humanity, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @religion as source of love and unity, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @The Holy Spirit, @oneness; unity of religion, @harmony of science and religion, @equality of men and women, @supreme tribunal, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @non-participation in politics

AB00101

1270

mixed

ایها المنادون باسم الله المهیمن القیوم در این ایام سهام بغضا از جمیع انحا... این ایام تازگی امت بیحیا خدعه‌ئی نموده‌اند و مکر و دسیسه‌ئی مجری داشته‌اند

O ye who call out in the name of God, the Protecting, the Self-Subsisting! In these days, the arrows of hatred from all directions [3.5s]... ...The martyr, Haji Mirza Jani, had written a few chapters, brief and incomplete, on the history of the Faith. These were in the possession of Aqa Muhammad-Rida, the nephew of Dhabih

BRL_DAK#0448 [http://www.bahai.org/r/702353523] RHQM1.450-454 (549x) (334-337x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=237] MSHR1.123-124x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-125.html] HBAB.044 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/377.pdf#page=57]

EGBBF.065x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/balyuzi_browne_bahai_faith.pdf]

@review of publications, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @rejection, opposition and persecution

AB00065

1270

mixed

الحمد لله الذی کشف الظلام و محی الغمام و کشف الحجاب و ازال النقاب فلاحت

Praise be to Him Who hath rent the dark asunder, hath blotted out the night, hath drawn aside the coverings and torn away the veils... O my Lord and my Hope! Help Thou Thy loved ones to be steadfast in Thy mighty Covenant... O God, my God! Praise be unto Thee for kindling the fire of divine love... Exert every effort in the fields of development and of civilization

MKT2.202 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-202.html] MMK1#206 p.245 [https://www.bahai.org/r/505311540] MILAN.163b [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/163.jpg] AKHA_135BE #01 p.02 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AHB.107BE #06 p.116 BCH.006x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=3] ADH2.102 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_2#19 p.128 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#015 p.013 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-16.html] NSR_1978.132x NSR_1993.145x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NR1/nr1-143.html] YHA1.115x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=117] YHA1.372x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=374]

SWAB#206 [http://www.bahai.org/r/544221866] BRL_SOCIAL#014x [http://www.bahai.org/r/958614197] BPRY.071-072x [http://www.bahai.org/r/079388679] BPRY.234-235x [http://www.bahai.org/r/555287893] DWN_v3#01 p.011ax [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925]

N. Chiang [https://natashachiangmusic.bandcamp.com/track/kindle] Soulrise Melodies [https://soulrisemelodies.bandcamp.com/track/to-be-steadfast] S. Toloui-Wallace [https://youtu.be/1W2flNAwGA0]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @universal peace; world unity, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @spiritual springtime

ABU0092

Words to Gabrielle Enthoven, spoken on 1913-01-16

1270

The Herald of the Kingdom stands before the people. Wonderful music swells from an unseen orchestra

DAS.1913-01-16 ABCC.497-502 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=527]

@literature; drama; humanities; the arts, @prophecy and fulfillment, @martyrs and martyrdom, @mystical themes, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation, @soul; spirit after death

AB00066

1260

O ye who are attracted toward the Kingdom and have drunk the Wine, the nature of which is cool and exhilarating! In these days that the Bestowals of the Kingdom of Abha

DAS.1914-06-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=119]

@methods of teaching the Cause, @wisdom [hikmat], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @stories; anecdotes

ABU0094

Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-11-09

1260

The address delivered last evening in the Jewish synagogue evidently disturbed some

PUP#122 (p.411-415) [http://www.bahai.org/r/194837331] SW_v06#02 p.011-013+016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_2]

@Christ; Christianity, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all

ABU0093

Address to the Baha'is at True home in Chicago, 1912-09-16

1260

Allah-u-Abha! Praise be to God! I have spent a number of days among you, associating with you in love

LOG#0629x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n629] PUP#104 (p.320-324) [http://www.bahai.org/r/313397830] BSC.279 #577x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#15 p.007+008-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_15] BSTW#052ox [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=5]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @The Holy Spirit, @suffering and imprisonment, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00067

1250

mixed

ای بنده حق صبح هدی چون از افق اعلی طلوع نمود پرتوش بشارت کبری بود و مژده اش

O servant of the one true God! When the Morn of divine guidance dawned above the Most Exalted Horizon, its rays brought tidings of great joy

BRL_DAK#0718 [https://www.bahai.org/r/515564971] NURA#05 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#143 p.145 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-148.html] MSHR1.123x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-125.html] MSHR4.053x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=49]

LOTW#05 [http://www.bahai.org/r/983727199]

@rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @rejection of Muhammad, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @literal interpretation

AB00068

1250

Persian

ای سرور هوشمندان آنچه بقلم مشکین نگاشتی خواندیم و باستان یزدان زبان ستایش

O thou who art the joy of the wise! That which thou didst write with thy fragrant pen hath been perused, and in praise of God the tongue hath been loosened [3.5s]... ...Thy second question was as follows: Is it necessary for every Messenger to have had knowledge of the Books and Scriptures of the Messengers Who preceded them?

INBA72:001 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=4] INBA59:280 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=282] INBA75:109 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=115]

BRL_DAK#0646 [https://www.bahai.org/r/603801812] MKT1.452 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-451.html] MKT2.064 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-64.html] MILAN.038 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/038.jpg] DUR3.140x DUR1.559x DUR1.531x ADH2_2#25 p.135x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.112x MMG2#396 p.443x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-446.html] YARP2.312 p.260 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-266.html] NVJ.024

ADMS#122x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00068_excerpt/] ADMS#255x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00068_excerpted_prayer/]

@relationship of the soul to the body, @the human soul, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction

AB00069

1250

mixed

لابتهلن الیک یا الهی و اتضرعن بین یدیک متذللا منکسرا الی ملکوتک الاعلی

I implore Thee, O my God, and beseech Thee with lowliness and contrition, before Thy Most Exalted Kingdom [3.5s]

INBA87:629 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=631] INBA52:673 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=675]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing

ABU0095

Public address given on 1912-05-26

1250

Persian

امشب در این سرود ذکری از قرُبیت الهی بود اعظم موهبت

As I neared this church this evening I heard the hymn, "Nearer, My God..." ... O thou forgiving God! These servants are turning to Thy kingdom

DWNP_v6#11 p.001x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] KHF.059 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=62] KHAB.285 (295) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.091 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-93.html] NJB_v04#06 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_6]

BPRY.090-092x [http://www.bahai.org/r/659403737] PUP#055 (p.147-150) [http://www.bahai.org/r/609026220] SW_v03#08 p.020-022 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_8] DWN_v6#10 p.002x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928]

@development of capacity and readiness, @symbolism, @martyrs and martyrdom, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @nearness to God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within

ABU0096

Public address given on 1912-07-24

1250

In the world of existence there is nothing so important as spirit, nothing so essential as the spirit of man

PUP#085 (p.239-243) [http://www.bahai.org/r/182970977] BSC.362 #690 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v04#07 p.115-117 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_7] SW_v08#08 p.085-088 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8]

@proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @man's distinction from the animal, @relationship of the soul to the body, @power of the mind over nature, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions

ABU0097

Words spoken on 1912-10-06 in Oakland

1250

Last year I went to Europe. After a few months I returned to Alexandria. When I was ready to start for America

ECN.103+964 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=103]

@proofs for the existence of God, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @composition and decomposition, @humor; jokes, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

AB00070

1240

Arabic

ترانی یا الهی معترفا بروحی و ذاتی و حقیقتی و کینونتی بعجزی و فقری و فناای

Thou seest me, O my God, with my spirit, my essence, my reality and my being, confessing my powerlessness, my poverty and my nothingness [3.5s]

INBA16:201 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=203]

BRL_DAK#0635 [https://www.bahai.org/r/023570007] MKT1.165 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-164.html]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant, @eulogies; reminiscences, @praise and encouragement, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

ABU0098

Public address given on 1912-05-20

1240

Today questions of the utmost importance are facing humanity, questions peculiar to this radiant century

LOG#2080x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2080] LOG#2082x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2082] LOG#2099x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2099] LOG#2103x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2103] LOG#2104x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2104] PUP#051 (p.133-137) [http://www.bahai.org/r/680974330] SW_v03#08 p.018-020 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_8] STAB#129 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=129] STAB#130 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=130]

@role and station of women, @universal peace; world unity, @the animal kingdom, @equality of men and women, @unity in diversity

AB00071

1230

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید و از مضمون حزن شدید حاصل گردید زیرا دلالت بر

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter hath arrived, and from its contents profound sorrow was produced, for it indicated [3.5s]

MKT3.146 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-146.html] PYB#160 p.15x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/160.PDF#page=15] MJMJ2.016bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-17.html] MMG2#165 p.188x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-191.html]

@prayer for martyrs, @prayer for peace and unity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @justice and wrath of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @martyrs and martyrdom

AB00072

1230

mixed

ای غلام حق بر مضمون شکایت مشحون مکتوب اطلاع حاصل گردید نهایت استغراب حاصل چه

O servant of Truth! The contents of thy plaint-laden letter have become known, and have occasioned the utmost astonishment [3.5s]

INBA17:205 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=207]

MMK5#273 p.208x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-211.html]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

AB00073

1230

mixed

صبح است و نور احدیت از مطلع غیب رحمانیت ساطع و لامع و فیض جلیل ملیک فردانیت

It is daybreak, and from the rising-point of the invisible realms of God, the light of unity is dawning... O Thou kind Lord! We are servants of Thy Threshold, taking shelter at Thy holy Door.

INBA88:324b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=358] INBA89:060 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=63]

MKT1.362 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-361.html] MNMK#091 p.163 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-161.html] MMK1#193 p.221 [https://www.bahai.org/r/406949919] AVK3.184.14x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-188.html] DWNP_v1#10-11 p.003-005x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] ADH2_1#30 p.048x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.118x MMG2#389 p.436x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-439.html] YHA1.101x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=103] GHA.307x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-316.html] HYB.175x MMJA.018x

SWAB#193 [http://www.bahai.org/r/001320574] BPRY.023-024x [http://www.bahai.org/r/378922639] LOG#0323x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n323]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @growth of the Cause, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @characteristics and conduct of true believers

AB00074

1230

O God! O God! Thou dost behold me, how my forehead is laid upon the dust of humility and submission and how my face is covered

DAS.1914-01-09 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=132] BSC.375 #709 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v07#14 p.127+130-132 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_14]

@service to others; to the Cause of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @prayer for spiritual recognition

ABU0100

Public address given on 1912-09-02

1230

I am exceedingly happy to meet you. Praise be to God! I see before me souls who have unusual capability

PUP#099 (p.302-306) [http://www.bahai.org/r/822392185] ABIC.001-003

@second birth, @The Holy Spirit, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @unity; oneness of humanity, @man's distinction from the animal, @the human soul

ABU0099

Words spoken on 1914-08-06

1230

The gathering storm is most portentous! Mankind is gripped in the paroxysm of a fearful alarm

DAS.1914-08-06 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=98] SW_v05#12 p.179-182 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_12]

@nationalism; love of country, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @spiritual transformation, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @war and peace, @power of love, @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion

AB00075

1210

Persian

ای منجذبه ملکوت الله نامه مفصل رسید از قرائتش نهایت سرور حاصل گردید زیرا دلیل

O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God! Thy detailed letter was received.... Evil spirits are deprived of eternal life…. That the Most Great Name exerciseth influence over both physical and spiritual matters is sure and certain

BRL_DAK#0225 [http://www.bahai.org/r/273259495] MKT3.184 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-184.html] AVK2.230.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-231.html] DWNP_v6#03 p.001-003x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] YHA1.015x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=17]

COC#1025x LOG#0925x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n925] LOG#1732x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1732] LOG#1762x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1762] SW_v02#15 p.005-007+016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_15] SW_v08#18 p.236 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18] SW_v14#07 p.210 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_7] DLA.077 [https://books.google.com/books?id=qk9OAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA77] BLO_PN#026 [https://bahai-library.com/goodall_cooper_daily_lessons]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection of Muhammad, @soul; spirit after death, @relationship of the soul to the body, @symbolism, @demons and evil spirits, @love of God

AB00076

1210

mixed

ای یاران عبدالبهاء حمد خدا را که این زندانرا بهر یاران ایوان فرمود و این سجن اعظم را گلشن

O Friends of ‘Abdu’l-Baha! Let us thank God that He has made from this prison a palace for the friends, and from this exalted dungeon, the garden of Baha’u’llah's bounties! …All that is revealed through divine inspiration is the evident truth

INBA75:063x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=69]

BRL_DAK#0638 [https://www.bahai.org/r/224767594] MKT2.105 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-105.html] MILAN.126 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/126.jpg] AKHA_106BE #07 p.07x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AMK.025-029 DWNP_v5#01 p.002-003x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] BCH.204x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=201] ADH2_1#48 p.073x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.063x MMG2#311 p.349x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-352.html] MJH.022x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-23.html] YHA1.430x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=432] VUJUD.140-141x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf]

BBBD.041-045 VUJUDE.155.14x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf]

@religion as source; stimulus of knowledge and science, @Muhammad; Islam, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @imagery in the Qur'an, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @consolation and comfort, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU0102

Public address given on 1912-11-10

1210

What is the reality of Divinity, or what do we understand by God? When we consider the world of existence

PUP#125 (p.421-425) [http://www.bahai.org/r/773872312] SW_v06#03 p.021-024 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_3] SAS.108x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/m/maud_sparks_among_stubble.pdf]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @creation of the world, @knowledge; recognition of God, @things are known by their opposites, @call to action, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ABU0101

Public address given on 1912-11-17

1210

This is a blessed meeting, for these revered souls have come together in complete unity

PUP#130 (p.437-442) [http://www.bahai.org/r/565043512] FWU.009 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU]

@progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @coming-of-age; maturity of mankind, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @spiritual transformation, @religion as reality; definitions of religion

AB00077

Some Answered Questions #047 The Evolution of the Universe and the Origin of Man

1210

Persian

بدان که یک مسئله از غوامض مسائل الهیه اینست که این عالم وجود یعنی این کون غیر متناهی بدایتی ندارد

Know that it is one of the most abstruse questions of divine philosophy that the world of existence—that is, this endless universe—has no beginning.

MFD#47 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-130.html] OOL.C022.47 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-02-fa]

SAQ#47 [http://www.bahai.org/r/740956664] BWF.297-300 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@evolution; human evolution, @names and attributes of God, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @creation of the world

AB00078

1200

Arabic

اللهم یا رب الملکوت المتجلل بالجبروت المقدس من النعوت تعلم و تری تذلل الضعفاء

O God, O Lord of the Kingdom, Who art clothed with majesty and sanctified above all attributes! Thou knowest and seest the abasement of these lowly ones [3.5s]... ...Know ye that the Torah is what was revealed in the Tablets unto Moses, may peace be upon Him

BRL_DAK#0232 [http://www.bahai.org/r/984335052] MKT3.167 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-167.html] AVK1.080x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-105.html] AVK2.101.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-102.html] MAS5.099 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-99.html] ADH2.009x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_1#02 p.009x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#067 p.073x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-76.html] MUH1.0342x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=44] NSR_1978.128ax NSR_1993.141ax [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NR1/nr1-139.html]

BRL_ATE#038x [http://www.bahai.org/r/392272996] KSHK#09x [https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2010/09/09/the-true-torah/]

R. Mostmand [https://youtu.be/BR5Q-holTA0]

@quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @free will and predestination; fate, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @prayer for firmness in the Covenant

AB00079

1200

mixed

الهی الهی هولاء عباد کشفت عن اعینهم الغطاء و جزلت لهم العطاء و نورت ابصارهم

O my God, my God! These are servants from whose eyes Thou hast lifted the veil, upon whom Thou hast bestowed abundant bounties, and whose vision Thou hast illumined [3.5s]... ...during His days in Iraq, the Blessed Beauty went into seclusion for two years. So concealed was the nominee of the Bab

MMK4#174 p.202 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-205.html] MMK6#566 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=414] ASAT5.356-361 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=183]

ADMS#160x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00079_excerpts/]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @rejection, opposition and persecution

AB00116

1200

mixed

سبحانک اللهم تقدس ادنی ایه من ایات ملکوتک عن المحامد و النعوت فی جمیع الشئون... درین ایام صنادید شیطانرا اسیر خذلان کرد و فسادشانرا واضح و عیان

Glorified art Thou, O God! The least of the signs of Thy Kingdom is, under all conditions, sanctified above all description and praise

UMich962.140-141x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.097-098x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

NURA#41 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#081 p.090x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-93.html] ASAT3.041-042x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=22] ASAT4.058x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=31] AVK1.009.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-34.html] AVK4.015.13x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-19.html] AVK4.308x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-312.html]

LOTW#41 [http://www.bahai.org/r/157456886]

@impossibility of true worship of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause, @firmness in the Covenant, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0104

Public address given on 1912-09-03

1200

Persian

ساعتی پیش جوانی اینجا آمد با او مذاکره کردیم که طبیعت کامل است یا ناقص روشن

Nature is the material world. When we look upon it, we see that it is dark and imperfect. For instance

BRL_DAK#0655 [https://www.bahai.org/r/212276411] KHF.014 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=17] KHAB.375 (381) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.233 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-235.html] NJB_v05#06 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_6]

LOG#0485x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n485] PUP#101 (p.308-312) [http://www.bahai.org/r/548146071] ABIC.008-010

@mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @universal education, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @perfection; imperfection of nature, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @station of the Manifestation of God

ABU0105

Words spoken at Goodall home in Oakland, 1912-10-03

1200

I am going to say "welcome," to you, instead of your welcoming me. I am most happy to be here with you.

SW_v04#11 p.190-191+194 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_11] MAB.038-039 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=63] ECN.081+929 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=081]

@love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @spiritual transformation, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @unity; oneness of humanity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love

ABU0108

Words spoken ca. 1913

1200

This is my second visit to Paris and I meet you with great joy. On a third visit to Europe I hope to see a brilliant flame

COC#2138x ADP.079-086 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA79]

@education of children; moral education, @growth of the Cause, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @equality of men and women, @universal language, @universal education, @universal peace; world unity, @oneness; unity of religion, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @Manifestation of God as divine physician

ABU0103

Words spoken on 1912-07-10 in New York

1200

Persian

امشب میخواهم از برای شما سبب احتجاب ناس را از مظاهر مقدسه الهی بیان کنم این

This evening I wish to explain to you the cause of the people's veiling from the sacred Manifestations of God [3.5s]

KHF.178 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=181] KHAB.338 (345) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.154 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-156.html] NJB_v04#01 p.007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_1]

@essential distinction of Manifestation of God from others, @Christ; Christianity, @outward and inward meanings, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @literal interpretation, @symbolism, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ

ABU0107

Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905

1200

These Supreme Holy Souls are Godlike in their attributes. The garments in which they appear are different, but the attributes are the same.

TDLA.031-037 [https://archive.org/stream/tendaysinlighta00illgoog#page/n37/mode/2up] BLO_PN#104 [https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka]

@the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @twin Manifestations, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @power of the Manifestation of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0106

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-24

1200

The parents must exert their utmost effort; thus their children may learn trades and professions... In this dispensation to study an art is prayer... When we were imprisoned in the barrack, one day, the Blessed Perfection spoke about the necessity of industrial education

DAS.1915-05-24

@education of children; moral education, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession, @work as worship, @begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth

AB00080

1190

mixed

ای دوستان راستان صبحست و دلبر امرالله در نهایت صباحت و ملاحت جلوه بافاق نموده

O ye true friends! Morn hath broken, and the beloved of God's Cause have appeared on the horizons in supreme grace and beauty [3.5s]

INBA16:091 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=93] INBA89:176 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=179]

BRL_DAK#0724 [https://www.bahai.org/r/669045892] MKT4.061 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-61.html] MILAN.091b [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/091.jpg] AVK2.239.07x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-240.html] YHA1.370 (2.743) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=372]

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity of thought and belief, @call to action, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @praise and encouragement, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @wisdom [hikmat], @obedience to and respect for government authority

AB00082

1190

mixed

لک الحمد یا الهی بما کشفت الغطاء و هتکت الحجاب و اوقدت سراج الهدی فی قلوب

Praise be unto Thee, O my God, for having rent asunder the veil, torn away the shroud and kindled the lamp of guidance within the hearts [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0063 [http://www.bahai.org/r/294133986] MKT1.347 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-346.html]

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @literal interpretation, @review of publications

ABU0109

Public address given on 1912-09-20

1190

The materialists hold to the opinion that the world of nature is complete. The divine philosophers declare

LOG#1000x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n1000] PUP#106 (p.329-333) [http://www.bahai.org/r/436099221]

@divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @spiritual transformation, @man's distinction from the animal, @second birth, @Manifestation of God as educator, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @education and the development of capacity, @power of the Manifestation of God, @perfection; imperfection of nature

AB00081

Some Answered Questions #003 The Need for an Educator

1190

Persian

چون ما نظر بوجود میکنیم ملاحظه مینمائیم که وجود جمادی و وجود نباتی

When we consider existence, we observe that the mineral, the vegetable, the animal

MFD#03 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-8.html] OOL.C022.03 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-03-fa]

SAQ#03 [http://www.bahai.org/r/870241797] LOG#0997x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n997]

@Manifestation of God as educator, @need for an educator, @unity of governments; political unity, @education of children; moral education, @power of the Manifestation of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

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

ABU0111

Words spoken at the Shrine of the Bab on 4 May 1910

1180

Meine Gäste kennen wohl die ruhmreiche Geschichte der göttlichen Geduld und der sehnsüchtigen Todesfreudigkeit seiner Heiligkeit des Propheten Báb

SDW v11#03 p.030-032 [https://file.bahai.media/4/44/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_03.pdf#page=8] BLO_PN#048x [https://bahai-library.com/grossmann_hermann_letter]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Shrines and Holy places, @law of pilgrimage, @House of Justice, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

AB00085

1170

Arabic

حمدا لمن اشرق و لاح و تجلی علی الوجود بانوار الشهود و اظهر المقام المحمود فی

Praise be unto Him Who hath shone forth and gleamed and been made manifest upon all existence through the lights of divine appearance, and hath revealed the glorious station [3.5s]

MMK6#069 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=54]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @outward and inward meanings, @rejection of Muhammad, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

AB00083

1170

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی اشرق بنوره الارض و السماء و اهتزت بنفحاته ریاض التقدیس المونقه

Praise be to Him through Whose splendours the earth and the heavens are aglow, through Whose fragrant breathings the gardens of holiness… O God, my God! This is Thy radiant servant, Thy spiritual thrall

MKT2.085 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-85.html] MNMK#010 p.071 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-69.html] MMK1#019 p.036 [https://www.bahai.org/r/815275841] MILAN.057 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/057.jpg] YMM.437x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=445]

SWAB#019 [http://www.bahai.org/r/458014350] BPRY.177-178x [http://www.bahai.org/r/402436337]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God

AB00084

1170

mixed

ای دوستان حقیقی شما آگاهید که در ایران حاسدان و علمای رسوم بهم پیوستند

O ye true friends! Ye well know that in Persia the jealous ones and the divines of empty ritual have joined together [3.5s]

INBA16:096 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=98]

BRL_DAK#0581 [https://www.bahai.org/r/711210784] MMK5#012 p.007 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-10.html] QT105.2.271x QT108.144-145x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=144]

@rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all

ABU0112

Public address given on 1912-07-06

1170

Persian

انسان در عالم وجود طی مراتب کرده است تا بعالم انسانی رسیده است در هر رتبه

In the world of existence man has traversed successive degrees until he has attained the human kingdom. In each degree of his progression

BRL_DAK#0550 [https://www.bahai.org/r/780325311] KHF.132 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=135] KHAB.329 (337) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.170 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-172.html] NJB_v03#17 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_17]

BRL_ATE#158x [https://www.bahai.org/r/755619432] PUP#081 (p.225-228) [http://www.bahai.org/r/884816656] BSC.324 #645 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] FWU.063 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#11 p.010-012 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_11] SW_v07#16 p.153-154 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16] SW_v14#02 p.041 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] BSTW#391x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=69]

@evolution; human evolution, @transcending the material condition, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

AB00086

Some Answered Questions #014 Material and Spiritual Cycles

1170

Persian

در این عالم جسمانی زمان را ادوار است و مکان را اطوار فصول را گردش است

In this material world, time has changing cycles and place is subject to varying conditions

MFD#14 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-58.html] OOL.C022.14 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-1-14-fa]

SAQ#14 [http://www.bahai.org/r/064129660]

@spiritual springtime, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @independent investigation of truth; reality

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

AB00087

1160

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی تجلی فی البقعه المبارکه الارض المقدسه طور الایمن وادی طوی جبل سیناء

Praise be unto Him Who hath manifested Himself in the blessed Spot, the Holy Land, the Mount of Faith, the Vale of Tuwa, Mount Sinai [3.5s]

INBA59:068 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=70] UMich962.050-055 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.015-022 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0630 [https://www.bahai.org/r/767919521] MKT1.102 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-101.html] MNMK#009 p.067 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-65.html] MILAN.032 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/032.jpg] RHQM2.1223-1228 (701) (433-436) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=306]

@meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @knowledge; recognition of God

AB00088

1160

mixed

یا سلیل الرجل الجلیل نامه مفصل شما ملاحظه گردید و از حوادث الیمه ایران

O scion of that noble soul! Thy detailed letter was considered, and the grievous events in Iran were noted [3.5s]

PYK.278 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=295] MSHR2.233x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-235.html]

@rejection by the people of the Bayan, @non-participation in politics, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

ABU0114

Discourse at “l’Alliance Spiritualiste”: Words spoken in Paris, 1911-11-09

1160

Persian

از فرمایشات رایس و احساسات قلبیه ایشان نهایت ممنونیت دارم و شکر میکنم... خداوند مهربانا کریما رحیما این جمع را بشمع محبتت روشن

I wish to express my gratitude for your hospitality, and my joy that you are spiritually minded.

INBA75:075x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=81] NLAI_BH_AB.015x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf#page=15]

BSHN.140.524x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-531.html] BSHN.144.512x ADH2.030x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_1#15 p.026x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.074x MMG2#162 p.184x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-187.html] MJH.027x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-28.html] MHT1a.166x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=167] MHT1b.124x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=124] BQA.031 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/226.pdf#page=16] KHF.163 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=166] KHAB.141 (152) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.130 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-132.html] NJB_v02#14-16 p.011 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14]

PT#28 p.081 [http://www.bahai.org/r/351391634] SW_v02#17 p.003-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_17] SW_v02#14 p.015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] SW_v08#08 p.0098 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8] SW_v14#01 p.011 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_1]

S. Tirandaz [https://tirandaz.bandcamp.com/track/gatherings-4]

@the human soul, @relationship of the soul to the body, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @origin of the soul; the soul as emanation, @soul is the essential reality of man

ABU0116

Words spoken at East Putney in London, 1912-12-29

1160

Are you all well? Are you all happy? Are you all joyous? You must be exceedingly joyous

DAS.1912-12-29x

@transcending the material condition, @man's distinction from the animal, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @unity in diversity, @critique of Western values; culture, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0115

Words to the first American pilgrims, spoken on 1900-01-09

1160

The field in America is now likened unto a field of land in which are planted small trees

PN_1900 p068 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=68]

@Mary Magdalene, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance

AB00089

1150

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لک الحمد بما اشرقت انوار الفلاح و النجاح و تبلج صباح

Glorified art Thou, O my God! All praise be unto Thee for causing the lights of success and prosperity to shine, and the dawn to break forth in splendor [3.5s]

MMK6#396 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=290] YMM.402x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=410]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @chastisement and requital, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @literal interpretation, @prayer for protection

ABU0118

Public address given on 1912-04-21

1150

Persian

آنچه قسیس فرمودند دلیل بر حسن اخلاق و خدمت بعالم انسانى است

What the Minister of the Church delineated before us just now testifies to his high sense of morality and his efforts to serve the world of humanity.

KHTB2.033 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-35.html] BDA1.041.07 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-41.html]

PUP#016 (p.039-042) [http://www.bahai.org/r/032421618] SW_v03#03 p.010-012 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3] SW_v19#03 p.087 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_3] MHMD1.050-054 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=75]

@love and unity, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @oneness; unity of religion, @contention and conflict, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God

AB00090

Some Answered Questions #077 The Punishment of Criminals

1150

Persian

عقوبات جزائیه بر دو قسم است یک قسم انتقام است

There are two kinds of retributive actions: One is revenge and retaliation

MFD#77 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-189.html] OOL.C022.77 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-5-03-fa]

SAQ#77 [http://www.bahai.org/r/424540396] ADJ.028bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/656762538]

@reward and punishment, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @education of children; moral education, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @universal education, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @justice and mercy

ABU0117

Words spoken on 1915-07-18 in Haifa

1150

Persian

اگر کسی برود به تخت جمشید می بیند چطور خانه ها بسته می شود. هیچ عمارتی نیست که خراب نشود

If someone goes to Takht Jamshíd [Persepolis], he will see how homes are shut. There is no building that has not been destroyed

RHQM2.1048-1051 (499-502) (305-307) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=219] ZSM.1915-07-18 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

RKS.151-157 [http://bahai-library.com/pdf/r/rabbani_reminiscences_khalil_shahidi.pdf#page=160]

@historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

AB00092

1140

Persian

ای بنده صادق جمال ابهی مکتوب آنجناب واصل و مضمون واضح گشت از فضل حق امید جدید

O faithful servant of the Blessed Beauty! Thy letter was received and its contents became evident. Through the grace of God, fresh hope has been awakened [3.5s]... ...Thou didst write as to the question of spiritual discoveries. The spirit of man is a circumambient power

INBA89:273 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=276]

MKT3.402 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-402.html] MNMK#149 p.277x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-275.html] MMK1#145 p.166x [https://www.bahai.org/r/210652326] AVK2.248.11x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-249.html]

SWAB#145x [http://www.bahai.org/r/603403312] BSC.492 #946x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] PN_1906 p097 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=97]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @soul; spirit after death, @power of the mind over nature, @symbolism, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

AB00093

1140

mixed

امروز ربّ الجنود حامی میثاق است و قوای ملکوت محافظ میثاق و نفوس آسمانی خادم میثاق و فرشته‌های ملکوتی

O ye two blessed souls! Your letter was received. Praise be to God… Today, the Lord of Hosts is the defender of the Covenant

MNMK#127 p.243x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-241.html] MMK1#192 p.221x [https://www.bahai.org/r/406949917] MAS9.150x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-151.html] BSMR.039 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1525.pdf#page=45] HMQ.085 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/706.pdf#page=88]

SWAB#192x [http://www.bahai.org/r/492995570] SW_v11#14 p.240-243 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_14]

@role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @firmness in the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00095

1140

Persian

ای یاران عبدالبهاء جناب میرزا عبدالحسین نامه ای نگاشته و ذکر آن یاران روحانی

O ye friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Jinab-i-Mírzá 'Abdu'l-Ḥusayn hath written a letter making mention of those spiritual friends [3.5s]

MKT4.132 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-132.html] MILAN.151 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/151.jpg] AKHA_134BE #13 p.512x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK3.229.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-233.html] YHA1.378x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=380]

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

ABU0119

Public address given on 1912-10-26

1140

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

AB00091

Some Answered Questions #012 Commentary on the Eleventh Chapter of Isaiah

1140

Persian

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

AB00096

Some Answered Questions #029 Sin and Atonement

1140

Persian

بدان که در انسان دو طبیعت است طبیعت جسمانیه و طبیعت روحانیه

Know that there are two natures in man: the material and the spiritual. The material nature is inherited from Adam

MFD#29 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-88.html] OOL.C022.29 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-14-fa]

SAQ#29 [http://www.bahai.org/r/059789780]

@Christ; Christianity, @original sin, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @symbolism, @The Holy Spirit, @transcendence; unknowability of God

AB00094

Tablet of the Divine Plan (U.S. and Canada IV)

1140

mixed

ای نفوس آسمانی و ابناء و بنات ملکوت خداوند در قرآن میفرماید و اعتصموا بحبل

O ye heavenly souls, sons and daughters of the Kingdom! God says in the Qur'an... O God! O God! Thou seest my weakness, lowliness and humility before Thy creatures

MKT3.058 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-58.html] RRT.148x? [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=148] RRT.155x? [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=155] ANDA#03 p.73 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-3] ADH2.113x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_3#06 p.147x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#209 p.237x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-240.html] FRTB.091 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=89]

TDP#14 [http://www.bahai.org/r/459274152] BPRY.207-209x [http://www.bahai.org/r/452880724] BWF.419-423 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] ADJ.070-071x [http://www.bahai.org/r/811127176] COF.017x [http://www.bahai.org/r/686315654] BSC.530 #983 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#15 p.283-285 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_15] SW_v11#12 p.215x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_12]

Seals and Crofts [https://youtu.be/tRLlaeHAUUo] Chicago Baha'i Community [https://chicagobahaicommunity.bandcamp.com/track/the-weakest-of-creatures] Heroes Teaching Conference [https://youtu.be/70MWxf0EdMY]

UDP.066

@oneness; unity of religion, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @growth of the Cause, @prayer for teaching

AB00098

Tahirih and the Conference of Badasht

1130

Persian

حقیقت این قضیه مختصراً اینست که در آن اوقات بدایت امر بود و هیچکس از تعالیم الهی خبر نداشت

In brief, what happened is the following. Those were the early days of the Cause and no one was informed of the divine teachings.

BRL_TTTP#09 [http://www.bahai.org/r/566464861] MMK4#018 p.017 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-20.html]

BRL_TTT#09 [http://www.bahai.org/r/638794850]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @conference of Badasht, @holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @stories; anecdotes

AB00097

The Declaration of Baha’u’llah

1130

Persian

جواب جمال مبارک از بدو طفولیت اطوار و آثار و گفتاری عجیب داشتند

From the beginning of His childhood Baha'u'llah was possessed of such astonishing qualities

BRL_TTTP#11 [http://www.bahai.org/r/090099904]

BRL_TTT#11 [http://www.bahai.org/r/891289628]

@banishment to; life in Baghdad, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @banishment to; life in Adrianople, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @banishment to; life in Constantinople

ABU0120

Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1912-05-11

1130

Persian

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

ABU0122

Public address given on 1912-05-02

1120

Abdu'l-Bahá's Address at Clark University

When we carefully investigate the kingdoms of existence and observe the phenomena of the universe

ABB.062 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol6/qubayn/qub062.gif]

PUP#035 (p.079-083) [http://www.bahai.org/r/877067263] SW_v03#04 p.015-017 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4]

@power of the mind over nature, @proofs for the existence of God, @man's distinction from the animal, @things are known by their opposites, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU0121

Public address given on 1912-05-23

1120

Persian

ای انجمن مبارک بینهایت مسرورم از اینکه در این جمعیت دارالفنون حاضر شده ام

Blessed audience, I am overjoyed to be with you here today. It had been my hope to visit this University, and now that hope has been fulfilled

KHF.062 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=65] KHAB.276 (286) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.077 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-79.html] NJB_v03#03-05 p.009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3]

BLO_PT#004 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_clark_university]

@high station of learning, @East and West; communication between East and West, @oneness; unity of religion, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @power of the mind over nature, @transcending the material condition

AB00099

Some Answered Questions #078 Strikes

1120

Persian

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

AB00100

Some Answered Questions #030 Adam and Eve

1110

Persian

در تورات مذکور که خداوند آدم را در جنت عدن نهاد تا عامل و حافظ باشد و فرمود

It is recorded in the Torah that God placed Adam in the garden of Eden to work and tend it, and said to Him

MFD#30 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-91.html] OOL.C022.30 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-15-fa]

SAQ#30 [http://www.bahai.org/r/001171118]

@crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @literal interpretation, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @original sin, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @symbolism, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

ABU0123

Words spoken on 1917-11-12 in Haifa

1110

Persian

Man of Courage, The

در یوم ثانی محرم سنه ١٢٣٣ در طهران در محله دروازه شمیران

On the second day of Muharram in the year 1233, in Tehran, in the district of the Shimran Gate [3.5s]... ...Ḥají Mírza Áqasí harbored the utmost enmity towards Mírza [ʻAbbas Núrí]

AHB.130BE #09-10 p.20 AYT.062-067 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-62.html] TZH2.012-015 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/arabic/vol4/2tzh/2tzh.htm] MHA.184-187x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/663.pdf#page=187]

BLO_courage.06a [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/m/masumian_nushabadi_man_courage.pdf#page=6]

@interpretation of dreams and visions, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God

AB00102

1100

Arabic

ایها النحریر الجلیل انی اشکر الله علی ما قدر و هدی و اشرق و تجلی و تلئلا نیر

O distinguished sage! I render thanks unto God for whatsoever He hath ordained and sent forth as guidance, and for all that hath shone forth, manifested and gleamed with radiant splendor [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0566 [https://www.bahai.org/r/043536742] MMK6#510 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=373] YMM.193 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=201] YMM.345 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=353]

@one universal law; attractive power of love, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @power of the mind over nature, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @human reality created in the image of God, @man's distinction from the animal

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

ABU0126

Public address given on 1912-04-12

1100

This is a most happy visit. I have crossed the sea from the land of the Orient

BDA1.030n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-30.html]

PUP#002 (p.004-007) [http://www.bahai.org/r/673558345] SW_v15#09 p.254-255x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_9] DWN_v5#11 p.001-004x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927]

MHMD1.039 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=64]

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @love and unity, @suffering and imprisonment, @Christ; Christianity, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @martyrdom of the Bab

ABU0124

Words spoken on 1912-07-09 in New York

1100

...Tell Mrs. D. there are only two ways of correcting the social conditions; it cannot be done by force.

PN_1912 p109x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=109] BSTW#351ax [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=2]

@the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @agriculture

ABU0130

Address to the Baha'is at 780 West End (Kinney home) in New York, 1912-12-02

1090

Persian

خوش آمدید خوب مجمعی است الحمد للّه وجوه منجذب بملکوت ابهی رویها متوجّه بآسمان است

You are all welcome. This is a goodly assemblage. Praise be to God! The hearts are directed

BRL_DAK#0651 [https://www.bahai.org/r/769585599]

BWF.245-248 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#0600x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n600] PUP#135 (p.453-457) [http://www.bahai.org/r/179168427] SW_v04#15 p.253-255+258 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_15] SW_v05#02 p.020-021 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_2] BSTW#052hx [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=5]

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @unity; oneness of humanity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @House of Justice, @religion as source of love and unity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @oneness; unity of religion, @harmony of science and religion, @equality of men and women

ABU0127

Address to the friends at Dreyfus home in Paris, 1913-05-23

1090

mixed

امروز چون مبعث حضرت اعلی بود لهذا جمیع شماها را تبریک میگویم امروز روزی بود

Today is the anniversary of the declaration of the Bab - Peace be upon thee! Today the Bab declared this cause in Shiraz

AMK.296-301 AYT.107 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-107.html] GHA.375 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-384.html] KHF.005 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=8] KHAB.436 (437) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.005 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-7.html]

ADP.051-054 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51]

@lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Declaration; advent of the Bab, @martyrdom of the Bab, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God

ABU0129

Public address given on 1912-06-16

1090

This is a Unitarian church, and in the Arabic tongue this day may well be called... What is real unity?... O God! Educate these children

BRL_CHILD#18x [https://www.bahai.org/r/972215586] BPRY.028x [http://www.bahai.org/r/579021329] BWF.257-260 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#069 (p.190-194) [http://www.bahai.org/r/380728487] FWU.066x [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#10 p.030-032 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10]

William Sears & the Ayyam-i-Ha Kids [track 1] [https://9starmedia.com/william-sears-happy-ayyamiha] Ine [https://ineh.bandcamp.com/track/shine] Nabil and Karim [https://youtu.be/_m-8-hxt4LQ] TaliaSafa [https://bahaimusic.taliasafa.com/track/educate-these-children] E. Peterson [https://youtu.be/PGkz3m5HgOA] MANA [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/educate-these-children] J. Crone [https://youtu.be/aUZSwpkJEls] C. McGrail [https://youtu.be/LUV1zFXTBAg] E. Mahony [https://music.elikamahony.com/track/o-god-educate-these-children]

@Manifestation of God as sun, @love and unity, @education of children; moral education, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @martyrs and martyrdom

ABU0128

Words spoken on 1914-01-15

1090

Persian

امروز من خیلی میل داشتم که بیایم بالا ولی احوالم طوری بود که مساعدت نکرد هوا

You are all welcome. How are you? It was my intense desire to come up today and see you... Tonight, I desire to speak to you on a most important subject, which you must engrave on the tablets of your hearts... The Holy, Divine Manifestations are unique and peerless. They are the archetypes of celestial and spiritual virtues in their own age and cycle.

AVK4.287cx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-291.html] MSBH3.476-479x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_3/?page=238] NJB_v05#09 p.003x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_9]

DAS.1914-01-17 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=2] BSC.283 #581x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v05#06 p.081-082x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_6] SW_v09#06 p.082-083x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_6]

@oneness; unity of religion, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @station of the Manifestation of God, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @firmness in the Covenant, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations

ABU0131

Words spoken on 1915-10-30 in Haifa

1090

Persian

هر مؤمن صادق و ثابت در صون حمایت جمال مبارک است. ایمان و ایقان یک رائحهٴ طیبه ای دارد، واقعاً نمی شود

Every faithful and steadfast believer abideth secure beneath the sheltering protection of the Blessed Beauty. True faith and certitude possesseth a sweet and heavenly fragrance that cannot be concealed [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-10-30 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@Shrines and Holy places, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @sacred remains; burial of the Bab, @degrees of faith; certitude

ABU0133

Words to some friends, spoken around 1914-11-15

1090

There are many militarists of the ancient, conservative school who hold the opinion that Alexander of Macedon was the greatest born leader

DAS.1914-11-15

@justice and mercy, @wisdom [hikmat], @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @war and peace, @stories; anecdotes

ABU0132

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-03-13

1090

Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

DAS.1915-03-13

@forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @universal peace; world unity, @unity in diversity, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00027

1080

Persian

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

ABU0134

Words to Ali Kuli Khan spoken in June 1906

1080

This is one of the conditions of the teachers of the Truth; he must possess pure severance, so that his words may produce such an effect on the hearers

PN_1906 p055 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=55] SUR.250-253 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=257] BLO_PN#001 [https://bahai-library.com/ali-khan_pilgrim-notes_1906]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @stories; anecdotes

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

AB00103

1070

Persian

Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; River of Life, The

ای حقیقتجو شخص محترم نامه که بتاریخ چهارم آپریل ۱۹۲۱ بود رسید و بکمال محبت

O thou distinguished personage, thou seeker after truth! Thy letter of 4 April 1921, hath been read with love. The existence of the Divine Being

MKT3.380 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-380.html] MNMK#146 p.269 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-267.html] MMK1#021 p.044 [https://www.bahai.org/r/217464034] DWNP_v1#02 p.003-005 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.008 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=11] KHAB.025? (034) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.008 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-10.html]

SWAB#021 [http://www.bahai.org/r/761825433]

@law of cause and effect, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @one universal law; attractive power of love, @higher encompasses the lower, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being

AB00104

1070

Persian

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

AB00106

1070

mixed

نامه مفصل شما که بتاریخ غره محرم بود رسید از قرائتش تاثرات قلبیه حاصل گردید

Your detailed letter, which was dated the first of Muharram, was received, and its perusal stirred the heart with deep emotion [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0546 [https://www.bahai.org/r/758970167] MKT3.154 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-154.html] TAH.242x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=246] DUR4.501 MAS5.277 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-277.html] MAS9.135 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-136.html] MSHR5.206x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=202] NNY.065-068 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=75]

@stories; anecdotes, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

ABU0137

Public address given on 1912-05-05

1070

The divine religions were founded for the purpose of unifying humanity and establishing universal peace.... O Thou kind Lord! Thou hast created all humanity from the same stock

BDA1.070n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-70.html]

BPRY.113-115x [http://www.bahai.org/r/452254361] PUP#041 (p.097-100) [http://www.bahai.org/r/369641392] SW_v03#04 p.024-027 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4] SW_v15#03 p.057 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_3] DWN_v6#11 p.002-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928]

Louis, Bahiyyih, Oisin & Danny [https://youtu.be/FuAKBTwSJWc]

MHMD1.079 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=104]

@changing and unchanging parts of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion, @universal peace; world unity, @war and peace, @prayer for peace and unity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

ABU0138

Public address given on 1912-11-09

1070

Every composition is necessarily subject to destruction or disintegration. For instance

PUP#123 (p.415-418) [http://www.bahai.org/r/808520374] SW_v05#19 p.291-293 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_19]

@meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @the human soul, @second birth, @relationship of the soul to the body, @composition and decomposition, @mind as intermediary between soul and body

AB00105

Some Answered Questions #037 The Connection between God and His Manifestations

1070

Persian

بدان که حقیقت الوهیت و کنه ذات احدیت تنزیه صرف و تقدیس بحت

Know that the reality of the Divinity and the nature of the divine Essence is ineffable sanctity and absolute holiness

MFD#37 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-106.html] DWNP_v2#01 p.015-018 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] OOL.C022.37 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-02-fa]

SAQ#37 [http://www.bahai.org/r/520106379]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction, @names and attributes of God, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God

ABU0136

Words spoken on 1915-04-30 in Haifa

1070

His life [Khalil's] was an example of honesty and activity... This man [Abdullah] lives in Baghdad and was notorious for his evil deeds... This man [Isma'il] was the well-known architect of Farrokh Khan in Tihran...

DAS.1915-04-30 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=31]

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @hospitality

AB00107

1060

Persian

یا امه البهاء نامه شما قرائت گردید ولی متحیر ماندم از مضمون آن زیرا میدانی

O handmaiden of Bahá! Your letter was read, but I was astonished at its contents, for you know [3.5s]... ...By God, I am not offended by Mírza Badí‘u’llah, or by the harm he inflicted on Me which caused My renewed incarceration and stirred up mischief against Me

MMK5#224 p.173 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-176.html]

LTDT.242x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LTDT.pdf#page=259]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world

ABU0139

Public address given on 1912-11-29

1060

This evening I wish to speak to you concerning the mystery of sacrifice. There are two kinds of sacrifice

PUP#133 (p.449-452) [http://www.bahai.org/r/750371067] SW_v07#12 p.109-111+115 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_12]

@original sin, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @spiritual transformation, @justice and mercy, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

ABU0140

Words to May Maxwell et al, spoken on 1898-02-22

1060

If your hearts are turned always towards God, and filled with the love of God, that love will separate them from all other things, that love will be the wall

PN_1899 p004 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1899.pdf#page=4] AEP.021-022 NRMM.163 [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=zPYdAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA163] BLO_PN#031 [https://bahai-library.com/maxwell_early_pilgrimage]

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prophecy and fulfillment, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0146

Address to Federation of Women's Clubs at Hotel La Salle in Chicago, 1912-05-02

1050

One of the functions of the sun is to quicken and reveal the hidden realities

BDA1.065n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-65.html]

LOG#0488x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n488] LOG#2077x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2077] LOG#2086x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2086] PUP#032 (p.074-077) [http://www.bahai.org/r/616905515] BSC.308 #629 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#04 p.012-014 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4] DWN_v5#05 p.005-008x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] PN_1912 p081 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=81]

MHMD1.073 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=98]

@equality of men and women, @Tahirih [Qurratu'l-'Ayn], @universal education, @unity in diversity, @Manifestation of God as sun

ABU0145

Public address given on 1912-04-19

1050

If we look with a perceiving eye upon the world of creation, we find that all existing things may be classified

BDA1.038n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-38.html]

BWF.242-245 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#012 (p.029-032) [http://www.bahai.org/r/760662050] FWU.049 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#08 p.008-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_8]

MHMD1.047-048 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=72]

@present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @man's distinction from the animal, @war and peace, @oneness; unity of religion, @high station of learning, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0147

Public address given on 1912-06-23

1050

Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; Tablet of Purity

You are always smiling. [Mr. Osborne:] Surely our faces should reflect happiness in this presence.

PUP#075 (p.210-213) [http://www.bahai.org/r/568558491]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @education of children; moral education, @Christ; Christianity, @oneness; unity of religion, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture

ABU0143

Words spoken ca. 1913-12-22 in Haifa

1050

Persian

خوش آمدید احوال شما چطور است از بس از صبح تا بحال من حرف زده ام دیگر قوت

Welcome! How are you! No strength is left in me because I have talked so much, from morning until now

KHF.194 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=197] KHTB3.079 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-81.html] NJB_v04#18 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_18]

DAS.1913-12-22x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=81] SW_v09#02 p.024x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_2]

@the Christian clergy, @stories; anecdotes, @Muhammad; Islam, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0148

Words spoken in the house of Abdu'l-Baha in Jan 1910

1050

The Blessed Beauty Bahá'u'lláh has set down in His Writings the oriental natural philosophy that we share with the Persian Súfís

SDW v12#04 p.040-042 [https://file.bahai.media/e/eb/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_12_Nr_04.pdf#page=6] BLO_PN#050 [https://bahai-library.com/fallscheer_schwarz_letter]

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @evolution; human evolution, @heat and motion, @Islamic laws and jurisprudence, @independent investigation of truth; reality

ABU0144

Words spoken on 1915-09-28 in Haifa

1050

Persian

لشگر تا در میدان حرب نباشد معلوم نیست که چقدر پادشاه به آن مهربانی و محبت دارد. عساکری که در اوطانشان هستند

Until an army enters the field of battle, the extent of the sovereign's loving-kindness and affection toward it remaineth unknown. Those soldiers who abide in their homelands [3.5s]

NJB_v14#02 p.063 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] ZSM.1915-09-28 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @the power of example, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0142

Words spoken on 1915-10-31 in Akka

1050

Persian

این سفر امریکا خیلی زحمت داد چند سال طول کشید هر روز در یک جائی در حرکت بودیم، لکن تأییدات

This journey to America entailed manifold hardships and extended over several years. Each day found us in a different place, yet divine confirmations [3.5s]

NJB_v14#10 p.320 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_10] ZSM.1915-10-31 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@suffering and imprisonment, @the power of example, @unity; oneness of humanity, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0141

Words to reporter from the San Francisco Examiner, spoken on 1912-10-03

1050

Persian

اقلیم امریکا اقلیم معموری است. اسباب تربیت موجود است. مدارس عالیه دارد و تلامذه تربیت می شوند و تحصیل می کنند

The continent of America is most progressive. The means of instructions are prepared.... Divine civilization is a symposium of the perfections... We do not look upon the dresses of women

NJB_v14#05 p.160 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5] ZSM.1915-09-26 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

DAS.1913-07-23 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=59] SW_v04#12 p.206-207 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_12] SW_v07#07 p.054 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_7] SW_v07#15 p.134 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] ABIE.099 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] VLAB.032x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt]

@equality of men and women, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @universal peace; world unity, @freedom of thought and action

AB00110

1040

Arabic

یا من هو سمیع لضجیجی و انینی و تاوهی و زفیری و بصیرا بتاسفی و تلهفی و تلبهی

O Thou Who heareth my lamentation, my sighs, my moaning and wailing, and Who beholdeth my grief, my yearning and my distress! [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0346 [http://www.bahai.org/r/952434835] MKT3.320 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-320.html] AYBY.383 #065 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-392.html]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for the departed, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00108

1040

mixed

الهی الهی تری و تشهد ذلی و هوانی و قله نصرتی و شده کربتی و عظیم بلائی و شدید

My God, my God! Thou dost witness and behold my lowliness and abasement, my lack of helpers, the intensity of my grief, the magnitude of my tribulation, and my severe affliction [3.5s]

INBA13:332x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=166]

MMK6#485 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=355] MSHR4.051x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=47]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Seal of the Prophets, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @thankfulness; gratitude

AB08225

1040

mixed

ای منادی پیمان نامه ها ملاحظه گردید الحمد لله حقیقت حال آن دو مظلوم بزرگوار بر

O Herald of the Covenant! The letters were perused. Praise be to God, the true state of those two wronged and noble souls hath been [3.5s]

INBA85:382b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=384]

BRL_DAK#0163 [http://www.bahai.org/r/687076964] MSHR1.042x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-44.html] YIA.289-292 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=285]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @oneness; unity of religion, @education of children; moral education, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @newspapers and the media; publications

AB00109

Lawh-i-Tanzih va Taqdis (=Lawh-i-Dukhan)

1040

mixed

Lawh-i-Tanzih va Taqdis (Tablet of Chastity and Purity)

ای یاران پاک یزدان تنزیه و تقدیس در جمیع شئون از خصائص پاکانست و از لوازم آزادگان

O Friends of the Pure and Omnipotent God! To be pure and holy in all things is an attribute of the consecrated soul

MKT1.324 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-323.html] MNMK#107 p.200 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-198.html] MMK1#129 p.142 [https://www.bahai.org/r/211678982] AKHA_104BE #07 p.01 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AHB.123BE #05 p.136x AVK3.039.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-43.html] AVK3.296.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-300.html] DWNP_v6#10 p.001-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] PYB#139 p.03 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/139.PDF#page=3] ADH2_1#34 p.051x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ2.020bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-21.html] MMG2#377 p.421x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-424.html] YHA1.340x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=342] KHAZ.111-114 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/khaz.pdf#page=111] HYB.168 OOL.C017 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw17-fa]

SWAB#129 [http://www.bahai.org/r/226238192] BRL_Aqdas.n170ax [https://www.bahai.org/r/303581037] TAB.581-585 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA581] BWF.333-336x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] COC#1414x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_music#1414] LOG#1186x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1186] LOG#1188x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1188] LOG#1192x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1192] LOG#1839x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1839]

@alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @excellence; distinction, @cleanliness and refinement

ABU0152

Public address given on 1912-05-19

1040

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

ABU0149

Public address given on 1912-05-28

1040

The Fatherhood of God, His loving-kindness and beneficence are apparent to all.... Praise be to God, the springtime of God

PUP#056 (p.150-153) [http://www.bahai.org/r/328773941] FWU.014 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#07 p.015+019-021 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_7] SW_v11#01 p.006-007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_1]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @universal peace; world unity, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity in diversity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

ABU0150

Public address given on 1912-09-20

1040

Praise be to God! This is a beautiful and radiant assemblage. It is a merciful gathering

PUP#105 (p.325-328) [http://www.bahai.org/r/539099905]

@divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @spiritual transformation, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @religion as source of love and unity, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @knowledge; recognition of God, @proofs for the existence of God

ABU0151

Words spoken on 1912-08-02 in Dublin, NH

1040

mixed

خوش آمدید خیلی خوش آمدید از این احساسات که در عالم انسانی پیدا شده است باید

Welcome, most welcome! From these sentiments that have emerged in the world of humanity, it is incumbent [3.5s]

AMK.304-309 KHTB2.197 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-199.html] NJB_v04#11 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_11]

@passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @existence; immortality of the human soul, @elementary matter cannot be annihilated, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00111

1030

mixed

ای یاران الهی و دوستان حقیقی پروردگار عالمیان جمیع کائنات را بفیض رحمانیت از

O ye divine friends and true companions of the Lord of the worlds! Through His all-embracing bounty He hath brought forth all created things [3.5s]

INBA55:295 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=297] INBA88:063 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=97]

MMK2#122 p.094 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-96.html] MMK3#154 p.107 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-109.html]

@obedience to and respect for government authority, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @creation of the world

ABU0154

Address given in Woking Mosque on 1913-01-17

1030

Persian

نه ماه بود که من در ممالک امریکا سیر میکنم و در بسیار از کنائس و مجامع و کلوبها صحبت میداشتم

For nine months, I traveled through the states of America and spoke at many churches, gatherings, and clubs. Even in the synagogues of the Jews

NJB_v12#10 p.176 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_10]

DAS.1913-01-17 ADMS#164 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0154/]

@oneness; unity of religion, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @harmony of science and religion, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social)

ABU0153

Public address given on 1912-08-26

1030

Among the teachings of Baha'u'llah is the principle of equality of man and woman

LOG#2091x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2091] LOG#2100x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=5#n2100] PUP#095 (p.280-284) [http://www.bahai.org/r/539186255]

@role and station of women, @equality of men and women, @unity in diversity

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

AB00112

1020

mixed

ای متوجهین بمنظر اعلی در لیل و نهار و صباح و مساء و عشی و ضحی در عوالم قلب

O ye who have turned your faces toward the Exalted Beauty! By night, by day, at morningtide and sunset

INBA88:098 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=132]

MKT1.368 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-367.html] MNMK#098 p.179 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-177.html] MMK1#207 p.250 [https://www.bahai.org/r/861557670] YHA1.373-374x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=375] DLS.319 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/675.pdf#page=329]

SWAB#207 [http://www.bahai.org/r/318825899] BWF.401-402x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] DAS.1915-04-01 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=59] BSC.359 #686 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v07#05 p.036-038x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_5] SW_v08#13 p.179x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

M. Sparrow (1) [https://munirihsparrow.bandcamp.com/track/mighty-sea] M. Sparrow (2) [https://munirihsparrow.bandcamp.com/track/mighty-sea-2] Heroes Teaching Conference [https://youtu.be/5tOAH2zMumw] K. Porray [https://soundcloud.com/katyporray/10-by-night-by-day]

@rejection by the people of the Bayan, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @unity in diversity

ABU0157

Public address given on 1912-04-23

1020

As I stand here tonight and look upon this assembly, I am reminded curiously of a beautiful bouquet of violets

BDA1.048n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-48.html]

PUP#020 (p.049-052) [http://www.bahai.org/r/706175546] FWU.060 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#03 p.016-018 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3]

MHMD1.056 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=81]

@man's distinction from the animal, @unity in diversity, @race unity; racial issues, @high station of learning, @power of the mind over nature, @true liberty; freedom

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

AB00113

1010

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید و انقلابات مشهد و اطراف خراسان معلوم گردید و

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received and the upheavals in Mashhad and throughout Khurasan became known [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0583 [https://www.bahai.org/r/495108424] MSBH4.552-556 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=274] MUH3.197-200 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=213]

@past, present and future of Iran, @predictions and prophecies, @martyrs and martyrdom, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @relationship between government and people, @parliaments; constitutional government

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

ABU0158

Public address given on 1912-09-24

1010

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

ABU0160

Words spoken at 97 Cadogan Gardens, 1911-09-23

1010

At nine years of age, I accompanied my father, Baha'u'llah, in his journey of exile to Baghdad, seventy of his disciples going with us.... The confirmations of the spirit are all those power... Freedom is not a matter of place

BSC.438 #797x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] AIL.115-121 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] ADP.018-023 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18] CHH.166-167x [https://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway] VLAB.009-010x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] VLAB.149x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] BLO_PN#022

@suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @Ottoman commissions of investigation

ABU0159

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-19

1010

The above verses are very clear and explicit that we are living in the time of their fulfillment. The globe is encircled with the fire of God's wrath

DAS.1915-04-19 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=1]

@materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @critique of Western values; culture, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @predictions and prophecies, @martyrdom of the Bab, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion

AB00115

1000

mixed

جهانبانا مظلوم پناها داد پرورا عدالت گسترا عرض بینوایان به پیشگاه حضور

O Sovereign of the World, O Shelter of the Oppressed, O Upholder of Justice! We humbly present the supplications of the destitute in the court of Thy presence [3.5s]

ASNS.283-284x

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @justice and mercy, @petitions to authorities

ABU0163

Public address given on 1913-01-24

1000

Welcome! Welcome! I have come again to Paris so that I may see if the seed I have sown last year has sprung up. Praise be to God, I can see that they have taken root

DAS.1913-01-24

@mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit, @power of the mind over nature, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @spiritual transformation, @transcending the material condition

ABU0161

Words spoken at Unitarian conference in Boston, 1912-05-22

1000

Persian

امشب من تازه از راه رسیده ام خسته ام با وجود این مختصری صحبت میدارم زیرا جمع

Creation is the expression of motion. Motion is life. A moving object is a living object

KHF.175 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=178] KHAB.272 (282) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.071 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-73.html] NJB_v03#06-08 p.004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_6] NJB_v04#13 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_13]

BWF.224-228 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#053 (p.140-143) [http://www.bahai.org/r/074141337] FWU.083 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v13#05 p.099-101 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_5]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @relativity of religious truth

ABU0162

Words spoken on 1912-08-20 in Green Acre

1000

...When a man is thirsty he drinks water. When he is hungry he eats food. But if a man be not thirsty

SW_v07#16 p.155+161x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16]

@man's distinction from the animal, @power of the mind over nature, @spiritual transformation, @human reality created in the image of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU0166

Words spoken on 1914-06-22 in Haifa

1000

When I was a small boy in Teheran, I remember whenever two of the believers

DAS.1914-06-22 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=124] SW_v08#13 p.162x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

@spiritual transformation, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0167

Words to Lua Getsinger

1000

Ios was a shepherd boy who tended his flocks in the valleys and on the sloping hills of Persia. He was poor and simple

SW_v13#07 p.182-184 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_7] STAB#018 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=18] STAB#020 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=20] STAB#021 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=21]

@humility; meekness; lowliness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @love of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @stories; anecdotes

ABU0165

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-16

1000

Because the children are truthful one would love them even if they did something mischievous. The father may punish them for their misdeeds

DAS.1915-03-16

@stories; anecdotes, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam

ABU0164

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-06-03

1000

In this glorious Tablet to the King of Persia Bahá'u'lláh has perfected His proof from every standpoint. There has been left for him no loophole... When his holiness Badi' reached Tihran he found the Shah was not in the city

DAS.1915-06-03

@martyrs and martyrdom, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment

AB00118

990

Arabic

الهی الهی انت البصیر بحالی و السمیع لندائی و الطبیب لدائی و الدواء لشفائی لک الحمد

My God, my God! Thou art the One Who beholdeth my condition, Who hearkeneth unto my call, Who art the Physician for my malady and the Remedy for my healing. Unto Thee be all praise [3.5s]

INBA17:058 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=60] INBA59:091x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=93]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00119

990

Persian

ای ندیم قدیم همدم عبدالبهاء نامه های مفصل شما رسید و بدقت قرائت گردید

O friend of old and confidant of 'Abdu'l-Baha! Thy detailed letters were received and perused with the utmost care [3.5s]

YIK.092-095 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=101]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

AB00120

990

mixed

ای یاران باوفای جمال مبارک هر چند مصائبی که در نیریز بر یاران عزیز وارد رستخیز بود

O ye faithful companions of the Blessed Beauty! Although the tribulations which befell the dear friends in Nayríz are recent

LMA2.413-417 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/360.pdf#page=421] MSHR4.321-322x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=317] MSHR5.319x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=315] NANU_AB#33 [https://www.bahai.org/r/719197766] MLK.089 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/403.pdf#page=89] TAN.137-139 NYMG.177 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/460.pdf#page=182]

NYR#123 [https://www.nayriz.org/template.php?pageName=illuminatedTablets]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00121

990

mixed

و انک انت یا الهی قد خلقت الاکوان و برئت الانسان و ذرئت الموجودات و اوجدت

O my God! Verily, Thou hast created the universe and fashioned the human soul. Thou hast brought forth the entire creation

INBA89:085 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=88]

NURA#63 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#158 p.170x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-173.html] AKHA_117BE #01-04 p.48x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_120BE #08-09 p.414x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/]

GPB.238x [http://www.bahai.org/r/178395478] GPB.238-239x [http://www.bahai.org/r/178395478] LOTW#63 [http://www.bahai.org/r/645068371]

@suffering and imprisonment, @creation of the world, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @primordial Covenant; the day of alast, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB07452

990

Persian

ای سمی و حفید شخص جلیل مقبول درگاه جمال کبریاء جد بزرگوار را نظر عنایت جمال

O namesake and descendant of that illustrious personage, who was accepted at the threshold of the Most Great Beauty - your noble grandfather was the recipient of His gracious favors [3.5s]... ...Wherefore thou shouldst seek to impart the Message to influential person and become a cause of guidance to the learned and distinguished

BRL_DAK#0582 [https://www.bahai.org/r/583827465]

BRL_ATE#161x [https://www.bahai.org/r/571128902] COC#1823x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_teaching_prominent_people#1823]

@parliaments; constitutional government, @relationship between government and people, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @justice and mercy, @non-participation in politics, @obedience to and respect for government authority

ABU0169

Pilgrim notes of Anton Haddad, Jan. 1900

990

Let no seditious rumors prevent you from coming into the kingdom of God and receiving the spirit of confirmation.

PN_1900 p073 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=73]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @unity in diversity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @contention and conflict, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @suffering; rejection of Christ

AB00117

Some Answered Questions #057 The Causes of the Differences in Human Character

990

Persian

اخلاق فطری و اخلاق ارثی و اخلاق اکتسابی که بتربیت حاصل گردد

There is the innate character, the inherited character, and the acquired character, which is gained through education.

MFD#57 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-153.html] OOL.C022.57 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-12-fa]

SAQ#57 [http://www.bahai.org/r/555562300] BWF.318-321 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@differences in human capacity, @lying and deceit, @education of children; moral education, @nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil

ABU0170

Words spoken ca. 1909-1910

990

other/unknown lang

ای دختر من اگر چه در ظاهر در مطالب به این شده شما اختلافی بنظر میرسد ولی در حقیقت

O, meine Tochter, in deinen Aussagen, so widersprechend sie auch erscheinen mögen, liegt nichts Gegensätzliches!

MSBH10.185-188 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf#page=185]

SDW v11#10 p.110-112 [https://file.bahai.media/1/1b/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_10.pdf#page=4]

@materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @evolution; human evolution, @teleology; goal-directed motion, @The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @spiritual transformation, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @soul; spirit after death, @harmony of science and religion

ABU0168

Words spoken on 1911-08-27 in Thonon-les-Bains

990

Arabic

ایها الحاضرون الی متی هذا الهجوع و السبات و الی متی هذا الرجوع القهقری و الی

O ye who are present! How long this drowsiness and sleep! How long this ignorance and blindness!

AMK.162-170 KKD2.225 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/kavakib-ad-durriyyah-vol-2-complete.pdf#page=113] KHF.082 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=85] KHAB.044 (052) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.010 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-12.html] NJB_v05#10 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_10]

AIF.1911-08-28 SW_v05#10 p.154x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_10] ABS#10 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/08/27/the-oneness-of-humanity-and-of-religions/]

@chastisement and requital, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Muhammad; Islam, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @Christ; Christianity, @call to action, @Moses, @prophecy and fulfillment

AB12108

980

Arabic

اللهم یا الهی و ربی و رجائی کیف اذکرک و قد اخذتنی دهشه کبری و احاطتنی وحشه

O my God, my Lord and my Hope! How can I make mention of Thee when I am overwhelmed by bewilderment and encompassed by desolation? [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0584 [https://www.bahai.org/r/659412483]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @justice and wrath of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for protection, @call to action, @prayer for martyrs, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00124

980

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان الان که در ارض مصر هجرتگاه یوسف کنعانی مدینه اسکندریه در

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Now that thou art in the land of Egypt, the place of exile of Joseph of Canaan, in Alexandria [3.5s]

MMK6#104x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=79] TZH8.0841 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol12/tzh8b/TZHVol8b.pdf#page=186] ANDA#73 p.46 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-73] MAS5.129 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-129.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @Ottoman commissions of investigation

AB00127

980

mixed

و انی یا الهی اتقرب الیک بنفوس اضطرمت فی قلوبهم نار محبتک و انسجمت دموعهم فی

O my God! I draw nigh unto Thee through souls in whose hearts the fire of Thy love hath blazed forth and whose tears have streamed down [3.5s]

MMK5#232 p.180 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-183.html]

@prayer for spiritual recognition, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

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

AB00125

980

mixed

ای ناظر بملکوت الهی در ایامیکه جمال قدم و اسم اعظم بانوار اشراق افق عراقرا

O thou who gazest upon the Kingdom of God! In the days when the Ancient Beauty and the Most Great Name illumined the horizon of Iraq with effulgent rays [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0306 [http://www.bahai.org/r/872531724] MKT2.116 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-116.html] MILAN.170 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/170.jpg] YMM.190x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=198]

@proofs of the Manifestations of God, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution

AB00123

980

Arabic

الهی الهی لک الحمد بما ایدتنا علی الایمان بک و بایاتک و الاستماع لندائک

My God! My God! Praise be unto Thee for that Thou hast strengthened us to firmly believe in Thee and Thy signs, to hear Thy Voice. and to respond to Tby Call,

UMich962.126-129 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.073-079 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

MKT1.145 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-144.html]

TRBP.004-008 [https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_abdul-baha_tablets_1900]

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @Manifestation of God as sun, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @return of the Manifestations of God, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @praise and encouragement

AB00122

980

mixed

الهی الهی انک لتعلم ان قلبی ممتلا بحب احبائک و روحی متعلق بروح اصفیائک و صدری

O my God! O my God! Thou knowest, verily, that my heart is replete… O ye friends of God and assistants of Abdu'l-Baha: When the Sun of Truth was concealed... I ask one favor of all the friends of God: It is the wish of my soul

MKT1.259 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-258.html] MMK5#205 p.157 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-160.html] YHA1.015x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=17]

SW_v08#15 p.210x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_15] SW_v08#13 p.180x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Ascension of Baha'u'llah, @growth of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]

ABU0171

Address to Free Religious Association of Boston, Ford Hall, 1912-05-25

980

Persian

ادیان الهیه بجهت محبت بین بشر نازل شده بجهت الفت نازل شده بجهه وحدت عالم

The divine religions have been revealed for the purpose of fostering love among humankind, to engender fellowship, and to achieve the unity of the world [4o]

KHF.085 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=88] KHF.238 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=241] KHAB.281 (291) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.086 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-88.html] NJB_v03#06-08 p.008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_6] NJB_v04#04 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_4]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @harmony of science and religion, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @knowledge; recognition of God, @oneness; unity of religion, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah

ABU0174

Public address given on 1912-05-05

980

I offer thanks to God for the privilege of being present in an assemblage which is commemorating Him

BDA1.068n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-68.html]

BWF.254-257 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#040 (p.093-096) [http://www.bahai.org/r/542011355] FWU.011 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#04 p.022-024 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4]

MHMD1.077 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=102]

@oneness; unity of religion, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @Manifestation of God as sun, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

ABU0173

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-28

980

If we could appreciate more the bounties of this age, and the marvels of this century, we would be more thankful to God than ever.

DAS.1913-04-28

@progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @Baha'u'llah, @thankfulness; gratitude, @critique of Western values; culture, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU0175

970

Persian

در ایام دقیانوس امپراطور رومان بعد از حضرت مسیح واقع شد دقیانوس بغض و عداوت زیادی

In the days of Decius, Emperor of Rome, who arose after Christ, there transpired events stemming from intense hatred and enmity [3.5s]

AVK2.208.10 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-209.html]

@Christ; Christianity, @early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees, @symbolism, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @outward and inward meanings

AB00128

970

mixed

ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء و اماء رحمن صبح است و نسیم جانپرور جنت ابهی بجمیع

O ye beloved of Abdu'l-Baha and ye handmaids of the Merciful! It is early morning, and the reviving winds of the Abha Paradise... O God, my God! These are Thy feeble servants

INBA85:270 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=272]

MKT8.239b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-239.html] MNMK#095 p.175 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-173.html] MMK1#008 p.020 [https://www.bahai.org/r/881366437] AKHA_133BE #14 p.396 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/]

SWAB#008 [http://www.bahai.org/r/749817158] BPRY.178-179x [http://www.bahai.org/r/026188612] TAB.387-390 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA387] BSC.492 #949x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] DWN_v5#05 p.003-005 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] TEW.025-027 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EK1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false]

E. Mahony [https://music.elikamahony.com/track/sweeten-their-souls-feat-ali-youssefi] The Bird & The Butterfly [https://thebirdandthebutterfly.bandcamp.com/track/vouchsafe] Sophie, Siria & Ashkan [https://youtu.be/B8p_cL8MHZQ]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion

ABU0178

Public address given on 1912-05-19

970

Religions are many, but the reality of religion is one. The days are many, but the sun is one

PUP#049 (p.126-129) [http://www.bahai.org/r/612399519] SW_v03#09 p.010-012 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_9]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @religion as source of love and unity, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0177

Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-29

970

No, but some souls, by their good morals and deeds do. For instance, a son by his good deeds may be the cause of the redemption of his father if he does good deeds.... There is a kind of mathematics where they take the name of a person according to 'Abjad'

PN_1919 p048 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=48]

@Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @astrology and numerology, @differences in human capacity, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria)

ABU0176

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-11-24

970

Persian

مصطفی افندی نامی بود مدیر تحریرات لاینقطع اذیت میکرد ومردم را بر علیه ما میشوراند بطوری متصرف " کرده "

There was a certain Mustafa Effendi in charge of the newspaper, who persistently caused us difficulties and incited people against us, including the Mutasarrif Kurdih

KHH1.298-301 (1.415-419) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=329]

KHHE.429-433 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @bribery and corruption, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance

AB00129

960

mixed

الهی الهی تری حالی و ضری و بلائی و ذلی و ابتلائی و توجعی و تفجعی و تزعزعی

My God, My God! Thou seest my state, my distress, my tribulation, my abasement, my affliction, my anguish, my grief and my dismay [3.5s]

INBA16:048 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=50] INBA84:543 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=546]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for protection

AB00130

960

mixed

ای حضرت شهید و ایادی امرالله نامه ایکه بتاریخ ۱۹ ربیع الاول ۱۳۳۷ مرقوم نموده

O illustrious martyr and Hand of the Cause of God! Thy letter dated the nineteenth of Rabi'u'l-Avval 1337 [3.5s]

MMK6#344x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=253] AVK4.479ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-483.html] AVK4.479bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-483.html] PYK.282 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=299] MSHR2.162x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-164.html]

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @growth of the Cause, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men

AB00131

960

Persian

Abdu'l-Bahá in the Holy Land answers questions of Dr. Edward C. Getsinger in 1915

ای عزیز دانا نامه ای که بتاریخ ۲۷ ماه می ۱۹۰۶ مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گردید

O thou who art dear, and wise! Thy letter dated 27 May 1906 hath been received and its contents are most pleasing and have brought great joy. Thou didst ask whether this Cause

MNMK#147 p.272 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-270.html] MMK1#031 p.059 [https://www.bahai.org/r/994100300]

SWAB#031 [http://www.bahai.org/r/481506932] TAB.540-545 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA540] LOG#0690x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n690] BSC.485 #930-931x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] DWN_v5#01 p.002-003x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927]

@Manifestation of God as mediator, @power of the Manifestation of God, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @oneness; unity of religion

AB00132

960

mixed

ای یاران رحمانی عبدالبهاء نامه شما که بتاریخ سنبله ۱۳۰۰ نمرو ۱۲۳۳ مورخ بود

O ye loving friends of Abdu'l-Baha! Your letter, dated Sunbulih 1300, number 1233, was received [3.5s]... ...In short, O ye beloved of the Lord! Regard ye not the tyranny and iniquity of the ignorant

BRL_DAK#0580 [https://www.bahai.org/r/068209761] MMK6#203 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=151] PYM.114bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-114.html] MSHR4.398x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=394] MUH1.0526x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=62] MJDF.122 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=122]

BRL_ATE#157x [https://www.bahai.org/r/011676074] ADMS#065i11x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/passages-on-iran/]

@historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00133

960

mixed

تعالیت یا الهی بعلو تقدیسک عن محامد الکائنات و تسامیت بسمو تنزیهک عن نعوت

Exalted art Thou, O my God, in the transcendence of Thy sanctity above the praise of all created things, and sublime art Thou in the loftiness of Thy detachment from the attributes [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0564 [https://www.bahai.org/r/994762021] ASAT2.167-168x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=85] KHAF.118-122 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=118] TISH.585x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=580] MATA.070x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/mansuban-i-astan-i-talat-i-ala.pdf]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @eulogies; reminiscences, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for the departed, @Shrines and Holy places, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00134

960

Arabic

حمدا لمن انار الافق الاعلی بنور الهدی و ازال ظلام الضلال بتبلج نور الصباح

Praise be unto Him Who hath illumined the Supreme Horizon with the light of guidance and hath dispelled the darkness of error through the dawning light of morn [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0554 [https://www.bahai.org/r/879680272] MKT1.121 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-120.html] MNMK#011 p.074 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-72.html] YMM.155x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=163]

@infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @Adam; Adam and Eve, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @station of the Manifestation of God, @prayer for forgiveness, @outward and inward meanings, @humility; meekness; lowliness

ABU0179

Words spoken on 1911-11-02 in Paris

960

Persian

من باروپا بپاریس آمدم ملاحظه کردم اروپا در مادیات نهایت ترقی را کرده ولکن

When I arrived in Paris from Europe, I observed that while Europe had achieved the utmost progress in material civilization, yet [3.5s]

AMK.243-246 BSHN.140.521x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-528.html] BSHN.144.509x MHT1a.164x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=165] MHT1b.122x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=122] KHF.160 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=163] KHAB.115 (125) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.100 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-102.html] KHTP.074

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @attaining the life of the spirit, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @human reality created in the image of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation, @critique of Western values; culture

ABU0180

Words to Edward Getsinger et al, spoken around 1915-01-26

960

No obstacle should be placed before any soul which might prevent it from finding the truth.... The ones in real authority are known by their humility... In this day every one must be tested

LOG#0120x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n120] LOG#0235x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n235] LOG#0322x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n322] SW_v06#06 p.043-045 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_6] SW_v08#17 p.223 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_17] SW_v08#18 p.234 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18] PN_1915 p002 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1915.pdf#page=2] PN_1915 p006 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1915.pdf#page=6]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @importance of authoritative interpretation, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @spirit and form in the administration, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00135

950

mixed

ای دوستان الهی و مشتعلان بنار محبت رحمانی در این خاکدان ترابی آشیانه نمودن

O friends of God and ye who are enkindled with the fire of divine love! Ye have made your nest in this dusty realm of clay [3.5s]

INBA88:084 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=118]

MKT4.054 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-54.html] MILAN.159 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/159.jpg] BSHN.140.208 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-215.html] BSHN.140.356 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-363.html] BSHN.144.208 BSHN.144.354 DUR4.814 MHT1a.171x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=172] MHT1b.129x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=129] MHT2.156 QALAM.011-012 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/mishkin-qalam_calligraphy_book.pdf]

@progress only takes place within its own degree, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0181

On Calumny: Words spoken on 1911-11-20 in Paris

950

mixed

از بدایت عالم تا امروز هر وقت ندای الهی بلند شد ندای شیطان هم بلند شد زیرا

From the beginning of the world until the present time each 'Manifestation' sent from God has been opposed by an embodiment of the 'Powers of Darkness'.

AMK.200-204 DWNP_v1#06 p.004-006 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.203 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=206] KHAB.184 (195) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.186 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-188.html] KHTP.131

PT#33 p.101 [http://www.bahai.org/r/281918729] ABS#01 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/11/19/opposition-has-beneficial-effects/]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @rejection of Muhammad, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @growth of the Cause, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ABU0182

Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-07-07

950

Persian

خوش آمدید خوش آمدید انسان دو حیات دارد یک حیات جسمانی یک حیات روحانی حیات

Welcome, welcome! Man possesseth two lives: one life physical, one life spiritual [3.5s]

BSHN.140.530x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-537.html] BSHN.144.518x MHT1a.126x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=127] MHT1b.084x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=84] BQA.054 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/226.pdf#page=27] KHF.036 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=39] KHAB.334 (341) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.176 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-178.html] NJB_v03#18 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_18]

MHMD1.162 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=187]

@stories; anecdotes, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual transformation, @transcending the material condition, @the human soul

AB00136

940

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی خلق حقائق مزدوجه من تقابل الاسماء و الصفات و مرکبه من الوجود

All praise be unto God, Who hath created realities that are paired through the mutual encounter of the divine names and attributes… O Lord, make Thou this marriage to be blessed, prosperous, and happy. Bind these two souls together, and gladden Thou every eye

UMich962.137-139x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.092-094x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0783 [https://www.bahai.org/r/615883192] BRL_SWOP#006x [https://adibmasumian.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/originals_to_set_the_world_in_order.pdf] BRL_SWOP#103x [https://adibmasumian.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/originals_to_set_the_world_in_order.pdf] MKT1.209 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-208.html] AVK4.159.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-163.html]

BRL_SWO#006x [https://www.bahai.org/r/675699819] BRL_SWO#103x [https://www.bahai.org/r/633536219]

@pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @suffering and imprisonment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for married couples

AB00141

940

Arabic

یا من تحمل کل مشقة فى سبیل الله حضرت اسم اعظم

O thou who bearest every hardship in the path of God, O thou bearer of the Most Great Name [3.5s]

INBA13:286 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=143]

@critique of Eastern values; culture, @education of children; moral education, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @growth of the Cause, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love

AB00140

940

mixed

و انت تعلم یا الهی مبلغ حبی و فرط هیامی و عظیم ودادی و شده تعلقی بافنان سدره

Thou knowest, O my God, the extent of my love, the intensity of my yearning, the magnitude of my affection, and the depth of my attachment to the boughs of the Divine Lote-Tree [4o]

INBA87:293 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=295] INBA52:297 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=299]

@praise and encouragement, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @prayer for pilgrims, @review of publications, @call to action, @exhortations and counsels

AB00138

940

Persian

ای میر وفا در عالم وجود صفتی بهتر و خوشتر و شیرینتر از وفا نیست این منقبت از

O faithful one! In all the world of existence there is no attribute more excellent, more pleasing and sweeter than faithfulness. This virtue [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0709 [https://www.bahai.org/r/281168914] AKHB.258x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/436.pdf#page=134] YARP2.567 p.402 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-408.html]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @critique of Western values; culture, @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @unity; oneness of humanity, @harmony of science and religion, @independent investigation of truth; reality

AB00137

940

mixed

الهی الهی لک الحمد بما رفعت رایه فردانیتک و اریت الکل ایات رحمانیتک و هدیت هولاء

O God! O God! Praise be unto Thee for Thou hast unfurled the Flag of Thy Singleness, caused everyone to witness the signs of Thy Mercifulness

INBA87:135 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=137] INBA52:132 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=134]

SFI17.014-015 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_17.pdf#page=14]

DAS.1913-11-22x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=18]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @praise of Western values; culture, @rejection, opposition and persecution

AB00139

940

mixed

در این وقت که بلبل گلزار بقا قصد آشیان وفا نموده و شاهد انجمن عاشقین عزم دیار

At this hour, when the nightingale of the eternal rose garden hath taken wing toward the nest of faithfulness, and the Beloved of the gathering of lovers hath departed for His realm [3.5s]... ...Such hath been the interposition of God that the joy evinced by them hath been turned to chagrin and sorrow, so much so that the Persian consul-general in Baghdad regrets exceedingly

BRL_DAK#0787 [https://www.bahai.org/r/690142276] MMK4#035 p.035 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-38.html] AHB.121BE #07 p.226 TZH4.299 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/arabic/vol2/tzh4/tzh4.htm] HHA.015-020 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=24] MSHR2.169x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-171.html]

GPB.150x [http://www.bahai.org/r/188877262] ABCC.016-017x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=46]

@banishment to; life in Constantinople, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU0186

Address at New York Peace Society reception, spoken on 1912-05-13

940

Although I felt indisposed this afternoon, yet because I attach great importance to this assembly

BWF.231-235 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#048 (p.123-126) [http://www.bahai.org/r/225619379] FWU.020 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#08 p.014-015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_8]

@predictions and prophecies, @universal peace; world unity, @unity in diversity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @suffering and imprisonment, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

ABU0184

Address to the Baha'is and others at Parsons home in Dublin, 1912-08-07

940

Persian

اول باید ثابت کنیم که از برای وجود فنائی نیست زیرا فنا عبارت از تفریق اجزاء مرکبه است

We must first prove that there is no annihilation in creation.

BSHN.140.336 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-343.html] BSHN.144.334 MAS5.058 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-58.html] MHT1b.044 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=44] KHTB2.207 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-209.html] BDA1.179.10 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-179.html]

SW_v19#10 p.306-308 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_10] MHMD1.195-198 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=220] PN_1912_heh p039 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912_heh.pdf#page=39]

@proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @intelligible vs. perceptible realities, @relationship of the soul to the body, @martyrs and martyrdom

ABU0185

Words to Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Feb. 1914

940

Thou hast asked concerning the spirit and its immortality after its departure.... As to the question concerning the soul... Be it known that to know the reality or essence of the soul of man is impossible

DAS.1914-02-?? BSC.403 #740 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v14#01 p.011-012x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_1] SW_v07#19 p.189-191 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_19] BSTW#381 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=52]

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @relationship of the soul to the body, @soul; spirit after death, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @existence; immortality of the human soul, @the human soul, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @soul is the essential reality of man, @second birth

ABU0183

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-12-01

940

Persian

امروز جمعی آمده بودند و میگفتند چرا از شهر بیرون نمیروید بمن اعتراض میکنند که با اینهمه اضطراب و اغتشاش

Today a number of people came to Me and asked, “Why do You not leave the city?”... Sulayman Khan and Mírza Fathu'llah were candle-pierced, that is, they were pierced with bayonets

KHH1.277-280 (1.386-389) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=308]

KHHE.400-403 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00144

930

Persian

ای یاران پارسیان جناب جمشید نامه مرقوم نموده و ذکر آن یاران روحانی را کرده

O Persian friends! Jinab-i-Jamshid hath written a letter and made mention of those spiritual companions [3.5s]... ...To be a Baha’í is to be the embodiment of all human virtues.

INBA89:078 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=81]

BRL_DAK#0626 [https://www.bahai.org/r/677775079] YHA1.382x#1 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=384] YARP2.109 p.130 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-136.html]

SW_v13#04 p.090x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_4] BNE.071x [https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/publications-individual-authors/bahaullah-new-era/1#773046298]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @thankfulness; gratitude

AB00145

930

Arabic

ترانی یا الهی فی هذا الجبل الرفیع و المقام الباذخ المنیع ماوی کل رجل عظیم و

Thou seest me, O my God, on this lofty mountain; the sublime and supreme threshold

INBA16:069 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=71]

MNMK#003 p.009 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-7.html] MJAI.002

BSC.406 #744 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v08#14 p.194-196 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14] CHH.188x [https://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway] CHU.194-196 [https://archive.org/stream/compilationofhol00bahrich#page/194/mode/2up] BLO_PN#022 BSTW#215 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_201-250.pdf#page=19]

@forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for peace and unity, @Shrines and Holy places, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @war and peace

AB00146

930

mixed

خداوندیرا ستاایم و پرستش نماایم که جهان هستی را بپرتو بخشایش زینت و آرایش

All praise and worship be unto God, Who hath adorned the world of being with the resplendent rays of His grace [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0572 [https://www.bahai.org/r/169823948] MMK3#152 p.104 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-106.html] PYB#112-113 p.05 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/112-113.PDF#page=5]

@material and spiritual existence; two books, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @man's distinction from the animal, @praise of Eastern values; culture, @unity of governments; political unity, @human reality created in the image of God

AB00147

930

mixed

ایها الابتهاج کن کالسراج الوهاج فی زجاج محبت الله با ابتهاج روحانیان گردی

O thou who art radiant! Be thou even as a resplendent lamp within the glass of the love of God, that thou mayest be among those who are spiritually joyous [3.5s]

MKT5.222 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-223.html] BSHN.140.472ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-479.html] BSHN.144.465ax DUR4.805x MHT1a.085x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=86]

AB00148

930

mixed

بکمال ثبوت و رسوخ در حفظ و صیانت حصن حصین امر اللّه بکوشید و در ثبوت و استقامت بر عهد و پیمان الهی

With the utmost steadfastness and constancy strive ye to preserve and protect the impregnable fortress of the Cause of God, and remain firm and immovable in your faithfulness to the divine Covenant [3.5s]

MMK5#214 p.164x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-167.html]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @business; financial; property matters, @power of prayer, @growth of the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00143

Lawh-i-Haft Sham' (Seven Candles)

930

Persian

ای منجذبه محبت الله مکتوبی که هنگام رفتن مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه گردید از

O captive of the love of God! The letter which thou didst write at the time of thy departure hath been received. It brought me joy

MKT1.354 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-353.html] MNMK#121 p.231 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-229.html] MMK1#015 p.027 [https://www.bahai.org/r/966640672] AKHA_119BE #11 p.j [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK3.098.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-102.html] AVK3.491.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-495.html] OOL.C011 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw11-fa]

SWAB#015 [http://www.bahai.org/r/055287726] PDC.197x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/513040759] WOB.038-039x [http://www.bahai.org/r/736579644] COC#1584x BSC.444 #810 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] PN_1903 p002 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1903.pdf#page=2] ABCC.360-362x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=390] BSTW#185 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=63] BSTW#359 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=15] BSTW#407 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_401-450.pdf#page=7]

@mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @unity in diversity, @composition and decomposition, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @unity of governments; political unity, @unity of thought and belief, @oneness; unity of religion, @universal language, @race unity; racial issues

AB00142

Lawh-i-Tarbiyyat (Tablet of Education)

930

mixed

ای احبای الهی و اماء رحمن جمهور عقلاء بر آنند که تفاوت عقول و آراء از تفاوت

O ye beloved of God and maidservants of the Merciful! The republic of wise men believes that the difference in minds and opinions is due to the difference of education

INBA16:026 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=28]

MKT1.330 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-329.html] MNMK#110 p.207 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-205.html] MMK1#098 p.123x [https://www.bahai.org/r/142468888] MMK1#104 p.127x [https://www.bahai.org/r/609625949] MILAN.084 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/084.jpg] AKHA_104BE #06 p.15 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHB.210x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/436.pdf#page=110] AVK1.250x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-275.html] AVK3.326.17x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-330.html] DWNP_v6#05 p.004-006 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] PYM.218 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-218.html] MJTB.035 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] DUR1.574x YHA1.329-330x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=331] YHA1.382x#7 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=384] YHA1.382x#8 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=384] NJB_v05#02 p.005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_2] OOL.C018 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw18-fa]

SWAB#098x [http://www.bahai.org/r/565142503] SWAB#104x [http://www.bahai.org/r/133069456] TAB.576-580 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA576] BWF.396-399x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#0482x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n482] LOG#0484x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n484] LOG#0486x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n486] BSC.486 #935x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] TEW.003-006 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EK1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false]

MANA (1) [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/no-difference] MANA (2) [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/maid-servants-part-2]

@education of children; moral education, @differences in human capacity, @education and the development of capacity, @equality of men and women, @work as worship

ABU0192

Public address given on 1912-05-06

930

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

ABU0188

Public address given on 1912-05-25

930

I am going away from your city, but I leave my heart with you. My spirit will be here... O my God! O my God! Verily, these servants are turning to Thee

BPRY.089-090x [http://www.bahai.org/r/845551300] BWF.228-231 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#0731x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n731] PUP#054 (p.143-146) [http://www.bahai.org/r/706004641] FWU.018 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU]

@present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @unity in diversity, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @suffering and imprisonment, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0187

Public address given on 1912-05-31

930

Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Functioning of the Universal House of Justice; Universal House of Justice and the Principles of Jurisprudence

The material world is subject to change and transformation. The Cause of the Kingdom is eternal

PUP#059 (p.161-163) [http://www.bahai.org/r/400041062] SW_v05#11 p.169-170 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_11]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0189

Words spoken on 1911-01-21

930

Persian

مثل ایران مثل حاصل سبز و خرم خوبی است که گرفتار برودت شده و برف فراوان بروی آن فرود آمده باشد... وقتی که کاروان مکه وارد بریه الشام

The likeness of Iran is as a verdant and fertile field that hath been seized by bitter cold, and upon which abundant snow hath descended [3.5s]... ...Once a trading caravan from Mecca was passing through Syrian lands. The Egyptian king ordered that the leader of the expedition

NJB_v02#06-07 p.008-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_6] YFY.266-267 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/yfy.pdf#page=264]

STAB#065 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=65]

@divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @past, present and future of Iran, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0190

Words to Laura Clifford Barney (?) spoken around 1906

930

Science is systemized Truth. The laws of spiritual science are as exact as those of mathematics... There are invisible threads which connect us with every object which makes up our environment.

PN_1906 p013 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=13]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity in diversity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @harmony of science and religion, @spiritual transformation, @power of love, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @unity; oneness of humanity

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

AB00151

920

mixed

Universal House of Justice and the Principles of Jurisprudence

ای متشبث بذیل المیثاق منشور مسطور منظور آمد و سوالات مفصله ملاحظه گردید ولو

O thou who hast clung to the hem of the Covenant! Thy detailed letter was received and thy questions were noted [3.5s]... ...Those matters of major importance which constitute the foundation of the Law of God are explicitly recorded in the Text, but subsidiary laws are left to the House of Justice

INBA72:012 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=15] INBA59:275b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=277] INBA89:156 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=159]

BRL_DAK#0710 [https://www.bahai.org/r/280964152] BRL_CUHJP#19x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] AHB.120BE #03-06 p.05 DWNP_v3#05 p.033-035 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] RHQM1.302-304 (370) (222-223x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=163]

BRL_CUHJ#19x [http://www.bahai.org/r/318979410] COC#0728x COC#0763x LOG#1068x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1068] SW_v13#12 p.323-324x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] PN_1906 p047 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=47] LOIR08.257 BLO_PT#006 [https://bahai-library.com/momen_abdul-baha_functioning_uhj] BLO_PT#209 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_uhj_principles_jurisprudence]

@House of Justice, @laws of marriage and dowry, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @importance of authoritative interpretation

AB00154

920

mixed

یا الهی الحنون ترانی من ملکوت تقدیسک و جبروت توحیدک بین یدی عصبه ذاب کاسره

O my Compassionate God! From Thy Kingdom of holiness and the Realm of Thy oneness Thou beholdest me before a fierce and predatory band [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0781 [https://www.bahai.org/r/758480603] MKT1.267 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-266.html] DUR3.076 YHA1.377x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=379] MSBR.160-164x [https://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

AB00152

920

Persian

Tablet on the Unity of Existence (Sharh Wahdat al-Wujúd); Abdu'l-Bahá's Response to the Doctrine of the Unity of Existence

ای منجذبه ملکوت الله آنچه بتاریخ ۱۹ آگست سنه ۱۹۰۵ مرقوم نموده بودی ملاحظه

O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom of God: Thy writing of August 19, 1905, was considered, and the contents were a source of joy.... The prayers which were written for the purpose of healing

BRL_DAK#0227 [http://www.bahai.org/r/934748703] MNMK#156 p.290x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-288.html] MMK1#139 p.156x [https://www.bahai.org/r/841270544] MMK5#144 p.112x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-115.html]

SWAB#139x [http://www.bahai.org/r/846515598] LOG#0924x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n924] LOG#1761x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1761] SW_v08#08 p.097x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8] SW_v08#18 p.230x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18] DLA.084 [https://books.google.com/books?id=qk9OAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA84] MAB.008b [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=33] BLO_PN#026 [https://bahai-library.com/goodall_cooper_daily_lessons] BSTW#369a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=32]

@divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @The Holy Spirit, @prayer for healing, @birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures

AB00150

920

mixed

ای حضرت امین علیک بهاء الله و ثنائه خدمات آنجناب در آستان الهی چه در ایام ظهور

O thou Trusted One! Upon thee be the Glory of God and His praise! Thy services at the Divine Threshold, in the days of His Manifestation [3.5s]

INBA88:214 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=248] INBA89:036 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=39]

MMK4#144 p.150 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-153.html] RHQM1.616 (750bx) (460x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=320] MAS5.222x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-222.html]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00149

920

mixed

الهی الهی ترانی خائضا فی غمار البلاء و غریقا فی بحار الباساء و الضراء هدفا للنصال مطعونا

My God, my God! Thou beholdest me plunged in an ocean of tribulation, drowned in the seas of hardship and suffering, a target for arrows, pierced through [3.5s]

INBA87:372 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=374] INBA52:381 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=383]

MMK5#011 p.005 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-8.html] ASAT4.298 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=151] QT108.145-146 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=145]

@love and unity, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

AB00153

Commentary on the Unity of Existence

920

mixed

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

ABU0193

Words spoken in the house of Abdu'l-Baha ca. 1909-1910

920

O Tochter des Abendlandes, Wir schätzen deine Offenheit, Wir kennen deine Bedenken, Wir klären dich, du Sucherin der Wahrheit, gerne auf.

SDW v11#08 p.087-089 [https://file.bahai.media/4/41/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_08.pdf#page=5]

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @universality of the Cause, @Word of God and human limitations, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Christian doctrine and practice, @oneness; unity of religion

AB00155

910

mixed

ایها الفرع الرفیع من السدره المبارکه آنچه از قلم تحریر تسطیر شد ببصر دقیق

O exalted branch of the Blessed Tree! That which was written by the pen of communication passed before these eyes with keen attention [3.5s]... ...In this day, should a person pay attention to the insinuations of the doubters by a needle’s eye, of a certainty he would fall, in such wise that there would be no remedy

INBA87:297 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=299] INBA52:301 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=303]

AFNAN.138x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/r/rabbani_habibullah_afnan_memories.pdf#page=140]

@firmness in the Covenant, @importance of authoritative interpretation, @business; financial; property matters, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @suffering and imprisonment

AB00156

910

mixed

ترانی یا الهی خاضعا خاشعا متصدعا بما امرت من عندک متذللا الی ملکوتک مضطربا من

Thou seest me, O my God, bowed down in lowliness, humbling myself before Thy commandments, submitting to Thy sovereignty

MNMK#134 p.249 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-247.html] MMK1#190 p.218 [https://www.bahai.org/r/384736395] MJMJ2.090x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-91.html] MMG2#402 p.448x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-451.html]

SWAB#190 [http://www.bahai.org/r/956133875] BPRY.201-203x [http://www.bahai.org/r/800260824]

@prayer for sacrifice, @spiritual transformation, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power of prayer, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment

ABU0196

Public address given on 1912-04-26

910

Persian

Tablet on the Struggle for Survival (Lawh-i-Tanázu'-i Baqá); Universal Education

در این انجمن محترم میخواهم در خصوص وحدانیت الهیه تکلم کنم بدیهی است که حقیقت

I wish to speak upon the subject of divine unity, the oneness of God, before this revered assemblage… O Thou kind Lord! O Thou Who art generous and merciful!

BRL_DAK#0573 [https://www.bahai.org/r/927017756] KHF.114 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=117] KHAB.260 (270) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.049 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-51.html] KHTB3.045 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-47.html] NJB_v05#04 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_4] BDA1.054n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-54.html]

BPRY.112-113x [http://www.bahai.org/r/730314950] PUP#046 (p.113-116) [http://www.bahai.org/r/389147076] SW_v03#07 p.013-014 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_7]

D. Djalili [https://youtu.be/nNdRABRVhgI] Stevie & Tory [https://youtu.be/o-TVy6lUnRk] M. Levine [track 6] [https://9starmedia.com/matthew-levine-with-the-hands-of-power] A. Youssefi [https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/one-tree]

MHMD1.062 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=87]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @unity; oneness of humanity, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0200

Words spoken ca. 1910

910

Die "Heilige Vollkommenheit Bahá'u'lláh" hat in den Tagen ihrer Leiblichkeit (d. h. bei seinen Lebzeiten) verordnet, daß das Heilige Buch des Rechtes und des Gesetzes

SDW v11#02 p.018-020 [https://file.bahai.media/b/b1/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_02.pdf#page=8]

@House of Justice, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @law of obligatory prayer

ABU0198

Words spoken ca. 1916 in Abu Sinan

910

One day in Baghdad He called all His friends together and spoke to them of God. Then He departed from them alone. Nobody knew just where He was.

CHH.256-260 [https://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway] BLO_PN#022

@Manifestation of God as educator, @predictions and prophecies, @power of the Manifestation of God, @banishments of Baha'u'llah, @suffering and imprisonment, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @growth of the Cause

ABU0194

Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909

910

Persian

بلی در این امر شمشیر نفحات الهیه است آن شمشیر میکشت این جان می دهد

Verily, in this Cause, the sword is the divine breezes of God; the physical sword took life, whereas this one bestows life eternal [4o]

KHH2.256-261 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/355.pdf#page=277]

@holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @House of Justice, @contention and conflict, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @growth of the Cause

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

ABU0195

Words spoken on 1920-01-05

910

Persian

جمال مبارک ما را از جمیع قیود نجات داده... شخصی بود مصطفی بیک مدیر تحریرات مفتی شهر عکا

The Blessed Beauty has freed us from all restraints. He teaches that we must be kind to all, even to our enemies. There was a certain Mustafa Bayk

ISA.018-021 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/G-L/G/guftar/isa018.jpg]

ISAE.1920-01-05 [http://bahai-library.com/isfahani_rabbani_with_abdul-baha] STAB#097x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=97]

@stories; anecdotes, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @station of the Manifestation of God, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love

ABU0201

Words to several women in the house of Abdu'l-Baha on 20 Jan 1910, spoken on 1910-01-20

910

Oh, meine Schwester, aus deinem Munde spricht der gewaltige Stolz des Briten. Überlege dir einmal, liebt nicht jeder Mensch

SDW v10#11 p.157-159 [https://file.bahai.media/a/a9/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_10_Nr_11.pdf#page=7]

@past, present and future of Iran, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @language and the structure of reality, @universal language, @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster

ABU0197

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-17

910

During the reign of Kaliph Abdol Malek Mervan there lived in Damascus a merchant. At first everyone trusted him and deposited in his safe large amounts of money.

DAS.1915-01-17

@honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @spiritual transformation, @stories; anecdotes

ABU0207

900

In former times men either became believers, or else they became enemies of the cause of God. For instance, in the time of Moses

DWN_v3#03-4 p.024 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] ADP.041-046 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41]

@love and unity, @teachings as spirit of the age, @knowledge; recognition of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @words vs deeds, @suffering and imprisonment, @Christ; Christianity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @suffering; rejection of Christ

AB12109

900

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما واصل و آنچه مرقوم حقیقت واقع یاران الهی باید عدالت

O steadfast one in the Covenant! Your letter was received, and that which was written reflected the truth. The friends of God must [display] justice [3.5s]

AMIN.067-073 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00157

900

Arabic

الهی الهی تشاهد حالی و تنظر بلائی و تسمع نداای و ضجیجی و زفرات اجیج نیران

O my God, my God! Thou beholdest my condition, and witnesseth my tribulations, and hearkeneth unto my call and my lamentation, and the sighs of my burning heart [3.5s]

INBA21:186 (237) [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=94]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @suffering and imprisonment, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @prayer for protection, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00159

900

Persian

ای یار مهربان آوارگان نامه نامى که اثر کلک عنبرین بود

O thou affectionate friend of the wanderers! A letter hath arrived, a missive traced by a musk-scented pen [3.5s]

MKT2.186 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-186.html]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @firmness in the Covenant, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00160

900

mixed

حمدا لمن اشرق و طلع و لاح من الافق الاعلی و بشر بطلوع نیر الافاق من مطلع

Praise be unto Him Who hath shone forth, arisen, and gleamed from the Most Exalted Horizon, and Who hath heralded the dawning of the Day-Star of the horizons from the Dayspring [3.5s]

INBA85:129 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=131]

MMK6#192 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=143]

@rejection by the people of the Bayan, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love

AB00158

Lawh-i-Tanazu'-i Baqa

900

mixed

Lawh-i-Tanázu'-i Baqá (Tablet on the Struggle for Survival)

ای انجمن محترم عالم انسانی از این نیت خیریه و علویت مقاصد که دارید باید مورد شکرانیت

O honored society [for the advancement] of humanity! All mankind should be grateful on account of your noble purpose and lofty intentions…. One day I was standing by a creek and observed that a swarm of small locusts

BRL_DAK#0585 [https://www.bahai.org/r/305564793] MKT4.018 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-18.html] KHF.066 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=69] KHTB3.035 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-37.html]

DAS.1914-09-14 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_12.pdf#page=60] BLO_PT#166 [https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_hall_commemoration_birth] STAB#099x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=99]

@The Holy Spirit, @nationalism; love of country, @unity; oneness of humanity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @love and unity, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence

ABU0205

Public address given on 1912-05-26

900

Persian

مسئله بقای روح را نقلا در کتب مقدسه خوانده اید دیگر لازم نیست که من مجددا

As regards the matter of the immortality of the spirit, you have already studied this in the Holy Books, and there is no need for me to expound upon it anew [3.5s]

KHF.129 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=132] KHAB.346 (353) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.185 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-187.html] NJB_v04#19 p.004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_19]

@proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @relationship of the soul to the body, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @existence; immortality of the human soul

ABU0204

Public address given on 1912-06-20

900

I am about to leave the city for a few days rest at Montclair. When I

PUP#074 (p.206-209) [http://www.bahai.org/r/755215534] SW_v03#10 p.023-024 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10]

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @unity in diversity, @composition and decomposition

ABU0206

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-07

900

Last night a Hindu professor of music came to see me. He brought with him a musical instrument called the vina

DAS.1913-02-07 ADP.076-078x [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76] PN_1913 p002 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1913.pdf#page=2]

@music and singing, @symbolism, @spiritual transformation, @Manifestation of God as sun, @spiritual springtime, @oneness; unity of religion, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

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

ABU0208

Words to Mr. Reed, at dinner, spoken on 1912-10-08

900

There we do not have any Sunday. Whenever we get tired we simply withdraw…. When we were in Rumelia, in the Jewish quarter there was one of the grandees among the Jews, a very wealthy man

ECN.614+1030 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=614]

@charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth, @day of rest, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU0203

Words to Mrs Lesch, Buikema et al, spoken on 1912-10-31

900

Persian

بکلیفورنیا رفتیم هیجان شدیدی در نفوس افتاد در یونیورستی دارالفنون و کنائس و مجامع خلق بحرکت آمدند

Welcome, exceedingly welcome! We went to California and a great commotion was set up in the souls....

BDA1.342.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-342.html]

MHMD1.360x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=385] BSTW#132 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=61] BSTW#308 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=12]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @growth of the Cause

ABU0213

890

In reality the geographical position of the Central States has great importance.... Likewise, great importance must be given to the development of the Star of the West

BSC.546 #986 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#07 p.126-127+138 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_7] SW_v10#04 p.081 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_4] SW_v11#01 p.016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_1]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @review of publications, @The Holy Spirit, @newspapers and the media; publications, @universality of the Cause

AB00164

890

mixed

یا من ادخره الله لخدمه امره و اعلاء کلمته آنچه مرقوم فرموده بودید قرائت

O thou whom God hath reserved for the service of His Cause and the exaltation of His Word! That which thou hadst written was read [3.5s]

MMK2#039 p.029 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-31.html]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @suffering and imprisonment, @unity; oneness of humanity, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

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

AB00161

890

mixed

ای ثابت عهد و راسخ پیمان نامه شما در بهترین زمانی وارد زیرا سالهای چند بود که

O thou who art firm in the Covenant and steadfast in the Testament! Your letter has been received in the best of time.

INBA84:377 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=380]

BRL_DAK#0547 [https://www.bahai.org/r/238743287] MSHR3.365x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-367.html] NJB_v10#02 p.025 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_2]

SW_v10#02 p.024-027 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_2]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @predictions and prophecies, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00162

890

Persian

ای منجذب بنفحات الهیه مکتوب مفصل که بمسیس گتسنر لوا مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه

O thou who art attracted to the fragrant breathings of God! I have read thy letter addressed to Mrs. Lua Getsinger

MKT2.097 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-97.html] MMK1#134 p.149 [https://www.bahai.org/r/417669279] MILAN.066 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/066.jpg] AVK3.021 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-25.html]

SWAB#134 [http://www.bahai.org/r/537170371] LOG#0996x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n996] LOG#1008x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n1008]

@consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @idle fancies; lust and passion

ABU0212

Public address given on 1913-04-06

890

Many meetings are organized and established in all parts of the world; societies and organizations for the extension of general intercourse

SW_v04#09 p.156-157 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_9]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @unity; oneness of humanity, @equality of men and women, @teachings as spirit of the age, @unity in diversity, @fanaticism and hatred, @martyrs and martyrdom

ABU0214

Words spoken on 1912-10-04 in San Francisco

890

All phenomena excepting man, whether major or minor, are possessed of one aspect. For example, consider the vegetable kingdom.

ECN.087+935 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=087]

@fulfillment of true potential, @arcs of ascent and descent, @spiritual transformation, @second birth, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world

ABU0210

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-23

890

It will progress to such a degree that anyone can travel with them. The danger will become less and less... Had it not been for steamers, America would not have entered the war.

PN_1919 p032 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=32] PN_1919 p173 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=173] LAT.112-117 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @universal peace; world unity

ABU0211

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-24

890

Bahá'u'lláh lived in ‘Akká nine years. Two years were passed in the barracks and seven years in a house in the city. There was a mobilization at that time

PN_1919 p178 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=178] LAT.118-123 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@suffering and imprisonment, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals

ABU0217

880

To begin, let it be understood that the Prophets or Messengers of God are holy souls sent by Him to lead us to a knowledge of God and establish laws

BSTW#138 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=73]

@evolution; human evolution, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @Manifestation of God as tree of life; sadratu'l-muntaha, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @symbolism, @imagery in the Qur'an, @material and spiritual existence; two books

AB00166

880

Persian

ای یادگار ابوالفضائل چند ماه پیش جواب نامه مفصل قدیم مرقوم گردید و ارسال شد

O thou cherished remembrance of Abul-Fadl! Some months ago a detailed reply to thy previous letter was written and dispatched [3.5s]

MKT3.277 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-277.html] AVK2.165.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-166.html]

@criticism and its limits, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @rational arguments, @literal interpretation, @the mind's power of discovery, @newspapers and the media; publications

AB00165

880

mixed

ای منادی میثاق نامه های محرر چون جامهای مکرر نشئه صهباء داشت و نفحه حدیقه

O herald of the Covenant! Thy letters, like chalices filled repeatedly, carried the exhilaration of heavenly wine and the fragrance of the garden [3.5s]... ...This is my firm, my unshakable conviction, the essence of my unconcealed and explicit belief -- a conviction and belief which the denizens of the Abha Kingdom fully share… Therefore, in this day the doors of contention must be barred and the causes of strife prevented

INBA21:160b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=81] INBA72:059 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=62] INBA88:076 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=110]

BRL_DAK#0060 [http://www.bahai.org/r/829169500] MKT2.247 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-247.html] AVK4.291bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-295.html] YHA1.014x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=16]

BRL_ATE#094x [http://www.bahai.org/r/939227252] WOB.133x [http://www.bahai.org/r/170941032]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @firmness in the Covenant, @importance of authoritative interpretation, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity

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

AB00168

Some Answered Questions #044 The Rebukes Addressed by God to the Prophets

880

Persian

هر خطاب الهی که از روی عتابست ولو بظاهر بانبیاست ولی بحقیقت آن خطاب

Every divine utterance that takes the form of a rebuke, though it be outwardly addressed to the Prophets of God

MFD#44 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-121.html] OOL.C022.44 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-09-fa]

SAQ#44 [http://www.bahai.org/r/505548271]

@quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @Moses, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB00167

Some Answered Questions #049 The Evolution of Species

880

Persian

در این مسئله روزی دیگر مذاکره شد باز مجدداً نیز صحبتی میشود خلاصهء اینمسئله

We discussed this matter the other day but we will speak of it again. Briefly, this question comes down to

MFD#49 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-138.html] OOL.C022.49 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-04-fa]

SAQ#49 [http://www.bahai.org/r/453035044] BWF.307-310 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@evolution; human evolution, @need for an educator

AB00169

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Canada and Greenland II)

880

mixed

یاران مهربانا و اماء رحمانا لن تری فی خلق الرحمن من تفاوت در قرآن عظیم

O ye kind friends and the maidservants of the Merciful: In the great Qur'an God says... ...Be not concerned with the smallness of your numbers, neither be oppressed by the multitude... Praise be to Thee, O my God! These are Thy servants who are attracted by the fragrances... O God, my God! Thou beholdest this weak one begging for celestial strength

MKT3.054 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-54.html] RRT.148x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=148] ANDA#03 p.71 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-3] ADH2.108x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_3#03 p.143x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.015x MJH.064ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-65.html] NSR_1978.115x NSR_1993.128x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/NR1/nr1-126.html] FRTB.087 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=85]

TDP#13 [http://www.bahai.org/r/289052699] BPRY.217-218x [http://www.bahai.org/r/226472489] BPRY.218-219x [http://www.bahai.org/r/980076565] ADJ.055x [http://www.bahai.org/r/138409678] ADJ.058x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/481194216] ADJ.062x [http://www.bahai.org/r/003703323] COF.012bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/737291398] GPB.397x [http://www.bahai.org/r/552193552] TDH#158.17x [http://www.bahai.org/r/679994757] WOB.077-078x [http://www.bahai.org/r/648750949] LOG#1985x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1985] BSC.524 #981 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#12 p.227-229 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_12]

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 9] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan] almunajat.com [item 3, 14] [https://almunajat.com/chanting_collection_3.htm]

UDP.038

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prayer for teaching

ABU0218

Words spoken in the house of Abdu'l-Baha ca. 1909-1910

880

Im ganzen Morgenlande ist die Auffassung über die Natur eines Propheten dieselbe, gleichviel, ob es sidı um die Religion des Islams

SDW v11#07 p.076-077 [https://file.bahai.media/e/e4/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_07.pdf#page=6]

@station of the Manifestation of God, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as sun, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0215

Words spoken on 1911-11-16 in Paris

880

mixed

آفتاب جهانتاب آسمانیرا طلوع و غروبی و از این جهه کیهانرا شب و روزی موسم ربیع

The celestial Sun hath both its rising and its setting, and thus doth the universe know both night and day, and the season of spring [3.5s]

DWNP_v2#07 p.058-060 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] DWNP_v5#07-8 p.003-006x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] KHTB1.254 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-256.html] NJB_v02#14-16 p.017 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @spiritual springtime, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @literal interpretation

ABU0219

Words spoken on 1912-10-23 in Oakland

880

I am very grateful that this meeting has been made possible, for it is extraordinary that after forty years' imprisonment, and the consequent infirmity

ECN.207+499x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=207]

@praise of Western values; culture, @religion as source of love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @oneness; unity of religion, @war and peace, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @Christ; Christianity, @East and West; communication between East and West

ABU0216

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-03

880

On this journey many souls were set aglow with the fire of the love of God and they became exceedingly attracted to the Cause.

DAS.1913-05-03

@empty learning; false spirituality, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @perfection; imperfection of nature, @man's distinction from the animal, @the mind's power of discovery, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU0225

870

...These twelve basic Bahá'í principles were laid down by Baha'o'llah over sixty years ago

SW_v11#01 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_1] SW_v12#01 p.012-013 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_1]

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @universal language, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @equality of men and women, @education of children; moral education, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @supreme tribunal, @harmony of science and religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @universal education

AB00170

870

mixed

اللهم یا هادی الامم الی ظل اسمک الاعظم و رافع رایه نور القدم فی قطب العالم

O God! O Thou Who guideth the nations beneath the shadow of Thy Most Great Name and Who hath raised the banner of the ancient Light in the midmost heart of the world [3.5s]... ...There are two Books: one is the Book of Creation and the other is the Written Book

BRL_DAK#0658 [https://www.bahai.org/r/484483819] MKT1.433 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-432.html]

BRL_ATE#199x [https://www.bahai.org/r/767481380] RESP.013x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RESP.pdf#page=14]

@material and spiritual existence; two books, @prayer for peace and unity, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00171

870

mixed

ای جنود حیات شرق و غرب پرستش نجوم آفله نمایند و عبادت آفاق مظلمه از اس اساس

O Army of Life! East and West have joined to worship stars of faded splendor and have turned in prayer unto darkened horizons.... The essential purpose of Faith and Belief is to ennoble the inner being of man with the outpourings of grace from on high.... He is a true Baha'i who strives by day and by night

BRL_DAK#0788 [https://www.bahai.org/r/485871278] COMP_TRUSTP#65x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trustworthiness_compilation_originals.pdf] MKT4.050 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-50.html] AVK3.005 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-9.html] MMG2#013 p.011x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-14.html] YMM.067 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=75]

BRL_TRUST#64x [http://www.bahai.org/r/456233584] COC#0784x COC#2076x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_trustworthiness#2076] LOG#0245x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=1#n245] SW_v16#06 p.053x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_6] DWN_v4#08-9 p.113-114x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-4-burma-1926] DWN_v5#06 p.002-003x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] BW_v01p012 [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/bahai-year-book-vol01-1925-1926.pdf#page=12]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @creation of the world, @spiritual transformation, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others

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

AB00174

870

mixed

یا من عتبتک السامیه ملجای و ملاذی و ساحت قدسک مرجعی و معاذی اتضرع بقلب مضطرم

O Thou Whose exalted Threshold is my haven and my refuge, Whose hallowed Sanctuary is my shelter and my abode

NURA#39 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#078 p.083 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-86.html]

LOTW#39 [http://www.bahai.org/r/044922638]

@prayer for spiritual recognition, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0223

Public address given on 1912-04-18

870

Persian

Commentary on Verses of John (Tafsír-i-Áyát-i-Yuhanná)

در این محفل میخواهم از حیات حضرت بهاءالله قدری صحبت نمایم از بدایت

Tonight I wish to tell you something of the history of the Bahai Revelation. The Blessed Perfection, Baha'u'llah, belonged to the nobility of Persia

BRL_DAK#0641 [https://www.bahai.org/r/410960426] SFI07.026-027 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_07.pdf#page=26] BDA1.037n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-37.html]

BWF.220-224 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] GPB.124x [http://www.bahai.org/r/022452764] PUP#011 (p.025-029) [http://www.bahai.org/r/175255254] BSC.285 #586 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#09 p.003-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_9] SW_v08#13 p.159-160 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13] SW_v08#13 p.171 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

MANA [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/the-blessed-perfection]

MHMD1.046-047 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=71]

@early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @suffering and imprisonment, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @the Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace, @human reality created in the image of God, @banishments of Baha'u'llah

AB00173

Tafsír-i-Áyat-i-Yuhanna (Commentary on Verses of John)

870

mixed

Tafsir-i-Ayat-i-Yuhanna (Commentary on Verses of John)

بشیر اشارات پر بشارات که از مصر وفا عزم کری جهانان نموده از محفل دوستان

The herald of joyous tidings, who from the Egypt of faithfulness hath set forth to traverse the world, hath reached the gathering of the friends [3.5s]... ...The concourse of the Gospel have presently fallen lost in the wilderness of error and purblindness and thus have considered as naught these assertions of the Gospel

MKT2.057 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-57.html] PYM.423x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-423.html]

BLO_PT#026 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_tafsir_ayat_yuhanna]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @Christ; Christianity, @The Holy Spirit, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible

ABU0220

Words spoken at Hotel Victoria in Ramleh, 1912-03-21

870

Persian

از عادت قدیمه است که هر ملتی از ملل را ایام سرور عمومی که جمیع ملت در آن روز

According to ancient custom, every nation has general holidays when all the people rejoice and are glad… In all the prophetic Dispensations, philanthropic affairs were confined to their respective peoples only

BRL_DAK#0394 [http://www.bahai.org/r/766909553] AYT.349-353 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-349.html] DWNP_v1#07 p.005-007 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] KHF.275 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=278] KHAB.226 (236) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.101 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-103.html]

BRL_ATE#135 [http://www.bahai.org/r/079242990] BRL_SOCIAL#085x [http://www.bahai.org/r/916370218] LOG#1030x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1030] SW_v09#01 p.008-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_1]

@Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar, @past, present and future of Iran, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @universality of the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0222

Words spoken at Saint George church, 1911-09-17

870

Arabic

ایها المحترمون اعلموا ان الانبیاء مرایاء تنبی عن الفیض الالهی و التجلی الرحمانی

O respected persons! Know that prophethood is a mirror that reflects the divine effluence and the celestial effulgence

DUR2.296 KHF.292 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=295] KHAB.059 (068) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.003 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-5.html] NJB_v05#18 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_18]

ADMS#318 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0222/]

@progress only takes place within its own degree, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation, @station of the Manifestation of God, @power of the mind over nature, @Manifestation of God as mirror

ABU0226

Words spoken in the house of Abdu'l-Baha in Feb 1910

870

Al-Aschari (873--935) war Arzt, Naturforscher und Religionsphilosoph. Ursprünglich selbst Mutazilite, wie sein berühmter Zeitgenosse und Kollege Razi

SDW v12#05 p.052-054 [https://file.bahai.media/8/88/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_12_Nr_05.pdf#page=6]

@passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @matter; essence; substance and form, @creation of the world, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU0221

Words spoken on 1914-02-04

870

Persian

انبار طهران جائی نبود که کسی بتواند یک ماه زیست کند واقعا محل عجیبی بود زیر زمینی بود

The prison storehouse of Tehran was no place where any soul could survive for even a month. Verily, it was a strange place, situated underground [3.5s]

ASAT1.232-236 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/427.pdf#page=122]

@suffering and imprisonment, @martyrs and martyrdom, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0227

Words spoken to Miss St. of Southampton on 7 Feb 1910

870

Meine lieben Gäste! Die Lehre vom "abdschad" ist die Lehre von der mystischen Verwandtschaft von Worten, deren Zahlenwerte ihrer Buchstaben zusammenaddiert übereinstimmen

SDW v11#04 p.039-041 [https://file.bahai.media/a/a9/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_04.pdf#page=5]

@Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @transcendence; unknowability of God, @language and the structure of reality, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

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

AB06137

860

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه اخیر رسید و بر مضمون مفصل اطلاع حاصل گردید

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy recent letter was received and its detailed contents were noted [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0588 [https://www.bahai.org/r/867735479] AVK4.442bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-446.html] RAHA.108x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/raha.pdf#page=112]

@constitutional revolution in Iran, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @non-participation in politics

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

AB00180

860

mixed

یا من استبشر ببشارات الله در این قرن اعظم مبارک که آفتاب روشن قرون اولی

O thou who art rejoiced by the glad-tidings of God in this most great and blessed century wherein shineth the resplendent Sun of former ages [3.5s]

MKT1.342 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-341.html] MNMK#122 p.233 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-231.html] QT105.2.164 AVK1.008.13x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-33.html] YHA1.016x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=18] YHA1.017x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=19] YHA1.381x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=383] NJB_v05#14 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_14]

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @suffering and imprisonment, @firmness in the Covenant, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity of thought and belief, @rejection, opposition and persecution

AB00179

860

mixed

یا اباالفضائل و امة و اخیه چندیست که بوی خوش معانی از ریاض قلب آن معین عرفان

O thou father, mother and brother of Faza'il! It has been a long time since

INBA13:024 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=12] INBA55:240 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=242]

MKT1.276 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-275.html] AHB.119BE #03 p.96 DWNP_v1#09 p.001-003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923] TZH8.1134 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol12/tzh8b/TZHVol8b.pdf#page=479] MSBH2.323 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/248.pdf#page=160] SAAF.234-237 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/saaf.pdf#page=234] NJB_v04#19 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_19] NJB_v13#05 p.00128 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_5]

SW_v13#05 p.107-109 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_5]

@call to action, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech

AB00178

860

mixed

ای یاران روحانی عبدالبهاء نامه شما رسید الحمد لله بشارت صحت و سلامت دوستان حقیقی

O ye spiritual friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Your letter was received. Praise be to God that it brought tidings of the health and well-being of the true friends [3.5s]

MKT3.283 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-283.html] AVK4.202.08x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-206.html] AVK4.325ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-329.html]

@supreme tribunal, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @war and peace, @law of burial and cremation

AB00176

860

mixed

ای قاصر از مخاطبت هر عبارتی نامه نامی در بهترین وقتی واصل و مدار تسلی خاطر

O thou who falleth short in thy correspondence! Thy gracious letter arrived at a most propitious time and brought solace to my heart [3.5s]

CMB_F66#20

BRL_DAK#0633 [https://www.bahai.org/r/201251071] MAS9.109 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-110.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @suffering and imprisonment

AB00175

860

Persian

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

AB01242

860

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه آنجناب رسید و مضمون معلوم گردید این مکتوب در پانزدهم

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter was received and its contents became known. This letter on the fifteenth [3.5s]... ...As regards the holy verse, the intention of the reference to ‘male, not female’, is the first-born son… In all the Divine Dispensations the eldest son hath been given extraordinary distinctions… Such laws as are not mentioned in the Book must all be referred to the House of Justice and not to Abdu'l-Baha

BRL_DAK#0277 [http://www.bahai.org/r/384337915] AHB.120BE #03-06 p.00 AVK4.216.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-220.html] AVK4.219.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-223.html] BSHI.079-082 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/alvah_bih_bashir-i-ilahi.pdf#page=79]

BRL_UHJ1996-07-01#3x [https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice/messages/19960701_001/1#472008705] BRL_SOCIAL#20x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] WOB.148x [http://www.bahai.org/r/339657224]

@House of Justice, @law of inheritance, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0233

Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-04-25

860

In the world of existence the greatest bestowals of God are His teachings. The other bounties of God

BDA1.051n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-51.html]

PUP#026 (p.061-064) [http://www.bahai.org/r/702341833] SW_v03#05 p.007-008 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_5] BSTW#336c [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=52]

MHMD1.059 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=84]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity; oneness of humanity, @harmony of science and religion, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @the mind's power of discovery, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas

ABU0231

Words spoken on 1913-06-19 in Port Said

860

mixed

خیلی امر عجیبی است در پورت سعید چنین مجلس عظیمی عقد شد خوب است ملوک سر از

It is wonderful indeed that a gathering as grand as this one has been convened in Port Sa‘íd…. One night, Shaykh 'Abdu'l-Husayn the mujtahid told his cohorts about a dream he had…. No talk is there in town save of the loved one’s rippling hair; No spell abroad except her eyebrow’s curve—exquisite snare!

BRL_DAK#0822 [https://www.bahai.org/r/787690806] AYT.379 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-379.html] KHF.189 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=192] KHAB.441 (441) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.076 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-78.html] NJB_v04#08 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_8] BDA2.357x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-365.html]

BRL_ATE#209x [https://www.bahai.org/r/876898189] MHMD2.475x STAB#080x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=80] ADMS#175 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0231/]

@stories; anecdotes, @power of the Manifestation of God, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @growth of the Cause

ABU0229

Words spoken on 1915-09-10 in Haifa

860

Persian

امسال سال امتحان و افتنان است از هر جهت. در قرآن می فرماید:" أم حسبتم ان تدخلوا الجنة و لا یأتیکم

This year is a year of tests and trials from every direction. In the Qur'án He saith: "Did ye suppose ye should enter Paradise ere there come unto you..." [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-09-10 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection by the people of the Bayan

ABU0230

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1913-11-14

860

Persian

خوش آمدید از وقتیکه از این سفر مراجعت نمودم تا دیروز هیجان شدیدی در اعصاب من... ظلّ‌السّلطان از برای من در پاریس حکایت کرد

Before my arrival in Denver, I read in the newspapers that there was held in that city a great religious revival

Majlis210461.003-006 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/majlis_210461.pdf]

NNY.114-116x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=124]

DAS.1913-11-14 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=126]

@service to others; to the Cause of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @martyrs and martyrdom

ABU0232

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-20

860

His real name was Mirza Muhammad Qa'ini. He was a man of great spirituality and wit. Long before the appearance of the Báb from Shiraz

DAS.1915-05-20

@humor; jokes, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @stories; anecdotes, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

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

AB00181

850

mixed

ای منادی پیمان مدتی بود مدیده که از یاران الهی مکاتیب عدیده رسید ولی از موانع

O herald of the Covenant! For some time now numerous letters have been received from the friends of God, but due to impediments [3.5s]

MSHR3.357-359 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-359.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @contention and conflict, @the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00182

850

mixed

ای یاران و اماء رحمن چون پادشاه مخلوع عثمانیان عبدالحمید بظلم و طغیان قیام

O ye friends and the maidservants of the Merciful! When the deposed Sultan

QT105.2.206 AVK3.185.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-189.html] RHQM1.437-438 (534) (326x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=230] ANDA#43-44 p.87 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] YHA1.099-100 (1.202) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=101] MLK.056 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/403.pdf#page=56] QT108.071 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=71] DLH2.190 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/729.pdf#page=97] NJB_v02#03 p.001-002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_3]

SW_v02#04 p.006-007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_4] BSTW#052lx [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=5]

@idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @unity; oneness of humanity

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

ABU0238

Reaction to pilgrims prostrating at 'Abdu'l-Baha's feet, spoken on 1914-02-17

850

No, it is unlawful.... All the people of the world will become believers.... The friends of Yezd suffered great calamities

SW_v09#03 p.031-032+034-045 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_3]

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @contention and conflict, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @growth of the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0236

Words spoken at Assembly Rooms in San Francisco, 1912-10-05

850

I have the utmost joy to find in the distant West such an established Baha'i center

BSC.372 #701 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#13 p.243-245 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_13] ECN.096+955 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=096]

@service to others; to the Cause of God, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @growth of the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @banishment to; life in Baghdad, @banishments of Baha'u'llah, @call to action

ABU0235

Words spoken on 1911-10-21 in Paris

850

mixed

در جمیع کتب الهیه از جمیع ملل روزی موعود است که آنروز روزی است که جمیع بشر در

In all the divine Books of every people there is promised a Day, a Day wherein all humanity [3.5s]

DWNP_v4#08-9 p.025-027 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-4-burma-1926] DWNP_v5#09 p.006-007x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] KHAB.088 (098) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.064 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-66.html] KHTP.044

@prayer for unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @differences in human capacity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @oneness; unity of religion, @religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU0234

Words spoken on 1913-01-22 in Paris

850

There are two schools which believe in the rebirth of the soul - the reincarnation and metempsychosis. The first school believes that the spirit of man

DAS.1913-01-22

@cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @return of the Manifestations of God, @reincarnation, @John the Baptist, @elementary matter cannot be annihilated

AB00185

840

Persian

ای دو منادی محبت الله نامه ثالث که بتاریخ ۹ جمادی الاول ۱۳۲۶ مرقوم بود رسید

O ye two heralds of the love of God! The third letter, which was dated the ninth of Jamádí'l-Avval 1326, hath arrived [3.5s]

AVK3.338.07x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-342.html] AVK3.339.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-343.html] TAH.311 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=315] MSBH4.035-036 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=16]

@education of children; moral education, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @importance of community building, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0241

Public address given on 1912-09-02

840

The subject of immortality has been suggested. Life is the expression of composition; and death, the expression of decomposition. In the world or kingdom

PUP#100 (p.306-308) [http://www.bahai.org/r/275655907] ABIC.006-008

AB00184

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Central states II)

840

mixed

ای احبای قدیم و یاران ندیم در قرآن عظیم میفرماید یختص برحمه من یشاء این

O ye old believers and intimate friends! God says in the great Qur'an... These twelve Central states of the United States... O Lord, my God! Praise and thanksgiving be unto Thee for Thou hast guided me to the highway

MKT3.045 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-45.html] AHB.110BE #06-07 p.102 RRT.146x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=146] ADH2.110x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_3#04 p.144x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MMG2#208 p.236x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-239.html] MJH.063x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-64.html] FRTB.078 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=76]

TDP#11 [http://www.bahai.org/r/944283356] BPRY.215-216x [http://www.bahai.org/r/375318536] TDH#158.5x [http://www.bahai.org/r/755603488] COF.031x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/641079708] COF.069x [http://www.bahai.org/r/097876207] COF.121x [http://www.bahai.org/r/172483142] GPB.254-255x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647760190] GPB.351x [http://www.bahai.org/r/030748783] GPB.397x [http://www.bahai.org/r/552193552] BSC.515 #977 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#07 p.124-126 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_7]

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 6] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan]

UDP.023

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0240

Words spoken at Parsons home in Dublin, 1912-08-15

840

Persian

سه هفته است که من در دوبلین هستم در حقیقت دوبلین جای بسیار خوشیست جای بسیار

For three weeks have I dwelt in Dublin, which is, in truth, a most delightful place, a place most pleasing [3.5s]

AVK4.325bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-329.html] AVK4.331bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-335.html] AVK4.332x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-336.html] AVK4.340ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-344.html] KHF.088 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=91] KHAB.365 (371) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.202 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-204.html] NJB_v03#15 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_15]

@spiritual transformation, @praise and encouragement, @connection between material and spiritual worlds, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @proofs for the existence of God, @the ephemeral and the eternal

ABU0239

Words spoken on 1919-09-19

840

Persian

بعد از ظهور امر الله و ظهور مظهر کلی و اعلاء کلمة الله و انتشار ندای الهی

After the appearance of God's Cause, and the manifestation of His universal Manifestation, and the exaltation of the Word of God, and the diffusion of the divine Call [3.5s]

SFI06.020 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_06.pdf#page=20] SFI07.032 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_07.pdf#page=32]

@banishment to; life in Constantinople, @banishment to; life in Baghdad, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @stories; anecdotes

ABU0243

830

Persian

خلیل پاشا والی بیروت عبدالرحمن الحوت را بوکالت از خود بعکا فرستاد

Khalil Pasha, the Governor of Beirut, dispatched 'Abdu'r-Rahman al-Hut to 'Akka as his deputy [3.5s]... ...Upon their arrival, the Commission of Inquiry invited me to meet with them but I declined. They sent a certain official by the name of Hikmat Big

ASAT4.360-363 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=182]

CHC.217-218x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CHC.pdf#page=226]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @Ottoman commissions of investigation, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha

AB00194

830

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لک الحمد و لک الشکر علی ما انعمت و آتیت و والیت و اعطیت

Praise be unto Thee, O my God! Thanks be unto Thee O my Beloved!... O ye friends of God! The joy and happiness of the people of faithfulness

BRL_DAK#0587 [https://www.bahai.org/r/015205731] MKT1.288 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-287.html] AMK.073-076 AMK.079-082 HHA.109x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/634.pdf#page=118] RHQM2.0700 (090x) (056-057x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=45] LMA2.409 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/360.pdf#page=417] MAS5.186 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-186.html] MJMJ2.050 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-51.html] MMG2#085 p.093 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-96.html] YHA1.341x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=343] YHA1.348x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=350] YHA1.380x (2.689) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=382] MLK.087 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/403.pdf#page=87] QT108.045x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=45] NYMG.142x? [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/460.pdf#page=147] NYMG.175x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/460.pdf#page=180]

SW_v01#03 p.001-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_3] SW_v08#18 p.235-236 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18] NYR#124x and 202 [https://www.nayriz.org/template.php?pageName=illuminatedTablets] BSTW#031 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=40] BSTW#373 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=39]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @sacred remains; burial of the Bab, @praise and encouragement, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @unity; oneness of humanity, @call to action, @firmness in the Covenant

AB00193

830

mixed

حضرتش از فروع سدره منتهی و منتسب آستانه حضرت اعلی روحی له الفداء بود از بدو

His honour the Muvaqqaru'd-Dawlih was of the Afnan of the Divine Lote-Tree and one that was related to the Threshold of His Holiness

MKT3.238 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-238.html] KHAF.267 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=267]

GEN.349-352 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/a/afnan_rabbani_genesis_faiths.pdf]

@spiritual transformation, @eulogies; reminiscences, @soul; spirit after death, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00192

830

Arabic

ایها المطلع باسرار الکتاب المقدس انی قرئت مکتوبک المسهب و اطلعت بالمحاوره

O thou who art versed in the mysteries of the Holy Book! I have perused thy detailed letter and taken note of its discourse [3.5s]... ...Follow thou the way of thy Lord, and say not that which the ears cannot bear to hear, for such speech is like luscious food given to small children

MNMK#012 p.077 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-75.html] MMK1#214 p.258x [https://www.bahai.org/r/136833012] KKD2.066 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/kavakib-ad-durriyyah-vol-2-complete.pdf#page=34]

SWAB#214x [http://www.bahai.org/r/037174450]

@the power of words; of speech, @Christ; Christianity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @wisdom [hikmat], @critique of Eastern values; culture

AB00191

830

Arabic

ایها المخلص فی محبه الله قد وصلنی تحریران الناطقان بالثناء علی الله بما انعم

O thou who art sincere in thy love of God! Two letters have reached me, both eloquently voicing praise unto God for His bestowals [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0545 [https://www.bahai.org/r/920786521] MNMK#022 p.101 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-99.html] MAS9.083x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-84.html] KKD2.061 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/kavakib-ad-durriyyah-vol-2-complete.pdf#page=31]

@justice and mercy, @East and West; communication between East and West, @diversity an attribute; requirement of existence, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @exhortations and counsels, @growth of the Cause

AB00190

830

Persian

ایها الفرع الکریم من السدرة المبارکه آنچه مرقوم نموده

O noble Branch sprung from the Blessed Tree! That which thou hadst written [3.5s]

INBA13:277 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=138]

@prayer for purity; chastity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @unity; oneness of humanity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity

AB00188

830

mixed

ای بنده حق نامه مفصل رسید و از روایات مذکوره نهایت استغراب حاصل گردید و معلوم شد

O servant of Truth! Thy detailed letter hath arrived, and from the account mentioned therein the utmost astonishment was occasioned, and it became evident [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0542 [https://www.bahai.org/r/936893548] MKT1.337 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-336.html] MNMK#152 p.283 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-281.html] MILAN.118 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/118.jpg] AKHA_104BE #08 p.01 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK1.200 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-225.html] BSHN.140.481 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-488.html] BSHN.144.474 DWNP_v4#02-3 p.014-016 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-4-burma-1926] MHT1a.117 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=118] MHT1b.075 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=75] YHA1.375-376x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=377]

@higher encompasses the lower, @purpose; goal of creation, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @soul; spirit after death

AB00187

830

Persian

ای بندگان جمال ابهی بکرات و مرات بجمیع اطراف حتی بافراد احباء مرقوم گردید که ما

O ye servants of the Most Glorious Beauty! Time and again missives have been dispatched to every region, even to individual believers, that We [3.5s]... ...The teaching work should under all conditions be actively pursued by the believers because divine confirmations are dependent upon it.

INBA16:212 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=214]

MMK1#213 p.258x [https://www.bahai.org/r/488304920] MMK2#283 p.204 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-206.html]

SWAB#213x [http://www.bahai.org/r/670298378]

@non-participation in politics, @importance of authoritative interpretation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @relationship between government and people, @obedience to and respect for government authority

AB00186

830

Arabic

الهی تسمع زفیر ناری و صریخ فوادی و حنین روحی و انین قلبی و تاوهی و تلهفی

O my God! Thou hearest the fire that blazeth within me, and the cry of my heart, and the lamentation of my spirit, and the sighing of my soul, and mine anguish and longing [3.5s]

INBA59:095 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=97]

BRL_DAK#0569 [https://www.bahai.org/r/667542706] MKT1.201 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-200.html] KHSH13.043 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_13] TISH.280-283 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=275] MSBH1.489 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/247.pdf#page=242]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @visitation Tablets, @prayer for martyrs, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00189

830

mixed

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

ABU0244

Words spoken ca. 1914

830

Persian

قائم مقام حیفا در نهایت عداوت مانع ساختمان مقام اعلی شد بمامور طاپو دستور داده بودند

With the utmost enmity, Haifa's Qa'im-maqam rose to prevent the construction of the Shrine of the Bab. The official in charge of the Land Registry received instructions

QT108.067-069 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=67] KHH1.314-317 (1.437-441) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=345]

KHHE.450-454 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf]

@Shrines and Holy places, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @sacred remains; burial of the Bab, @prayer for assistance; intercession

ABU0242

Words spoken on 1913-04-30 in Stuttgart

830

Persian

بلی کمالات این قرن همه نزد عقلای قرون سابقه محال بود آیا از پیش کسی گمان مینمود که زنها

Indeed, the hallmarks of this age were all deemed impossible by the wise ones of former times

BDA2.272-275 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-280.html]

DAS.1913-04-30 MHMD2.357-360

@means of establishment of future civilization, @war and peace, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @unity in diversity, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @equality of men and women

ABU0248

Words spoken on 1914-02-20

830

If a person is confirmed in the accomplishment of the services of the Kingdom... Indeed the most enduring and imperishable work was performed by the disciples

DAS.1914-02-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=96] SW_v07#16 p.154-155x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_16]

@apostles; early disciples of Christ, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @Mary Magdalene, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0246

Words spoken on 1914-03-23

830

You are all welcomed…. For nine consecutive years the Blessed Perfection did not put his feet outside the gate

DAS.1914-03-23 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=75] SW_v08#13 p.175-176 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

@banishment to; life in 'Akka, @Ascension of Baha'u'llah

ABU0247

Words to Juliet Thompson et al, spoken on 1909-07-11

830

In the days of the former Manifestations of God no addresses were given for the kings and no clear warnings were given.

PN_1909 p019 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=19] PN_1909 p053 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=53] PN_1909C p100 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=100] DJT.099-103 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary]

@predictions and prophecies, @prophecy and fulfillment, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0245

Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-09-15

830

Persian

من از ملاقات شما خیلی مسرورم شکر می کنم خدارا که

I rejoice exceedingly at meeting you and render thanksgiving unto God that [3.5s]

KHTB2.240 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-242.html] NJB_v03#17 p.004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_17]

@suffering and imprisonment, @unity; oneness of humanity, @East and West; communication between East and West, @martyrs and martyrdom, @Christ; Christianity

AB00195

820

mixed

Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; Letter to Martha Root

الهی الهی تسمع ضجیجی و صریخی و انینی و حنینی فی جنح اللیالی و تری ذلی

O God, my God! Thou hearest my sighs and bitter wailing, my cry and the voice of my lamentation...The Revelation of the Bab may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac - the sign Aries… Pure souls, such as Mirza Abu'l-Fadl, upon him be the Glory of God, spend their nights and days in demonstrating the truth of the Revelation

BRL_DAK#0950 [https://www.bahai.org/r/202471507] NURA#40 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#080 p.087 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-90.html]

BRL_SCHOLAR#30x [http://www.bahai.org/r/080743651] GPB.099-100x [http://www.bahai.org/r/756163672] WOB.127x [http://www.bahai.org/r/180065536] WOB.167-168x [http://www.bahai.org/r/738626229] COC#2219x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_writers_writing#2219] LOTW#40 [http://www.bahai.org/r/005165897]

@growth of the Cause, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @false claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

AB00196

820

mixed

ای سلیل حضرت شهید عزیز عبدالبهاء نامه ۲۹ ربیع الثانی رسید و از تفاصیل اطلاع

O descendant of His Holiness the martyr! Thy letter of the 29th of Rabi'u'th-Thani was received, and from its contents I have learned [3.5s]... ...The Teachings of Baha'o'llah, the laws of this Cause and the principles of this Manifestation have no deniers. The world is like unto a thirsty fish

INBA85:495 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=497]

BRL_DAK#0590 [https://www.bahai.org/r/618863254] MKT2.257 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-257.html] AMK.155-159 AHB.127BE #05-06 p.154 PYM.112ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-112.html] MAS5.090 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-90.html] YHA1.380-381x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=382] YHA1.417x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=419]

DAS.1913-12-30x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=106] ADMS#065i05x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/passages-on-iran/]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual transformation, @The Holy Spirit, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration

AB00197

820

mixed

ای عاشقان حقیقت و خادمان عالم انسانی چون از گلشن افکار و نوایای شما بوی خوشی

O ye lovers of truth! O ye servants of mankind! Out of the flowering of your thoughts and hopes, fragrant emanations

MKT3.065 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-65.html] MNMK#114 p.219 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-217.html] MMK1#202 p.238 [https://www.bahai.org/r/125180657] AHB.124BE #06-09 p.35 DWNP_v2#06 p.050-052 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] PYB#047 p.23

SWAB#202 [http://www.bahai.org/r/823260795] ADJ.088-089x [http://www.bahai.org/r/454490552] PDC.186x [http://www.bahai.org/r/833757548] WOB.030x [http://www.bahai.org/r/569585639] SW_v14#12 p.355-356 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_12] BLO_PT#051 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_martha_root_1920]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @war and peace, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @predictions and prophecies, @supreme tribunal, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @unity; oneness of humanity, @religion as source of love and unity, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @equality of men and women

AB00198

820

mixed

ای فرع رفیع سدره مبارکه جناب آقا سید میرزا چون در اینجا تشریف داشتند

O thou exalted bough of the divine Lote-Tree! ...When thou art disdained and rejected by the wicked doers be not cast down

INBA55:395 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=397]

BRL_DAK#1203 [https://www.bahai.org/r/659626616] MNMK#133 p.246 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-244.html] MMK1#195 p.227 [https://www.bahai.org/r/380085239] MAS5.105 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-105.html]

SWAB#195 [http://www.bahai.org/r/403516768]

Alex, Asha, Renya, and Alia [https://youtu.be/hG58lUqmED0] B. Weber [https://bryanweberdevotions.bandcamp.com/track/let-us]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @growth of the Cause, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00199

820

mixed

ای مظلوم علماء سوء و اسیر طلاب جهل و نادانی تفصیل اردبیل و صدمات ضرب شدید

O Thou Who art oppressed by the ill-intentioned divines and held captive by students of ignorance and folly! The account of Ardibil and the grievous blows inflicted therein [3.5s]

INBA88:185b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=219]

AB00200

820

Persian

ای یاران عزیزان هر فردی از افراد انسانی چون از خاور زندگانی در جهان هستی

O beloved friends, every member of the human race, as they emerge from the dawning-place of life into the realm of existence [4o]

INBA75:132 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=138]

AMK.086-089 DWNP_v3#06 p.042-044 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] YARP2.310 p.256 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-262.html]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @past, present and future of Iran, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @unity; oneness of humanity, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @love and unity

AB00201

820

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی لم تزل کنت بارء الوجود بادع الاکوان بدیع الانسان متجلیا

Glorified art Thou, O my God! From time immemorial Thou hast been the Creator of existence, the Originator of all beings, the Fashioner of humankind, resplendent in Thy manifestation [3.5s]

AMK.101-105

@high station of the true believer, @call to action, @spiritual transformation, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00202

820

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی هولاء عباد مکرمون و اماء قانتات سرعوا الی معین رحمانیتک

Glory be unto Thee, O my God! These are honoured servants and devoted handmaidens who have hastened to the Wellspring of Thy mercy [3.5s]

INBA85:067 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=69]

MMK6#062 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=48]

@prayer for praise and gratitude, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @spiritual transformation, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]

ABU0702

Address at Nineteen-day Feast, home of Mrs Robinson in London, 1912-12-29

820

These delegates who have gathered in the Peace Conference are like merchants. Each strives to compete for victory with his rival…. The Nineteen Day Feast was inaugurated by the Báb and ratified by Bahá'u'lláh, in His holy Book, the Akdas

BDA2.049n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-57.html]

COC#0934 DAS.1912-12-30n BNEW#33 pp.1-2 Jul 1929 [https://bahai.works/Baha%27i_News_Letter/Issue_33] BSTW#032x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=42]

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0251

Words to Alma Albertson et al, spoken on 1900-11-30

820

All the nations of the world who believe in God are divided into two classes: the agnostics and the true believers... The agnostics are divided into two classes

PN_1900_heh p011 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=11] PN_1900 p024 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=24] BSTW#169f [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=34]

@multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @return of Christ; second coming of Christ, @limits of the intellect, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @rejection of Muhammad, @knowledge; recognition of God, @four methods of acquiring knowledge

ABU0249

Words to departing pilgrims, spoken on 1914-03-13

820

Praise be to God that you have attained... The believers of God must ever be ready to sacrifice their lives in the path of each other. This is one of the conditions of faith.

DAS.1914-03-13 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=47]

@consolation and comfort, @being a source of light; guidance, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart

ABU0252

Words to E.C. Getsinger, spoken on 1900-10-05

820

Revelation 22, verse 1: The river of water is the Truth, new, pure and clear teachings

PN_1900 p043 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=43]

@quotation from or interpretation of the Bible, @the human soul, @predictions and prophecies, @symbolism, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @station of the Manifestation of God, @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction

ABU0250

Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-09-29

820

Persian

چون من وارد این شهر شدم دیدم همهمه است پرسیدم چه خبر است گفتند کنگرهٴ زراعت تشکیل میشود

When I entered this city, I saw there was quite a stir. I asked the reason and was told that an agricultural convention was being held.

BDA1.277.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-277.html]

MHMD1.295x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=320]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @suffering and imprisonment, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @banishment to; life in 'Akka

AB00204

810

mixed

ای یاران باوفا ای بندگان صادق حضرت بهاء الله نیمه شب است و جمیع چشمها آسوده

O ye faithful friends, O ye sincere servants of Baha'u'llah! Now, in the midwatches of the night... O Thou kind and loving Providence! The east is astir and the west surgeth... Study the Tablet of the Holy Mariner that ye may know the truth… Pitiful are we, grant us Thy succour; homeless and wanderers...

INBA16:064 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=66]

MKT3.423 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-423.html] MNMK#099 p.182 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-180.html] MMK1#233 p.302 [https://www.bahai.org/r/444051035] AYT.522x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-522.html] HDQI.207 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-212.html] ANDA#02 p.54x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-2] ANDA#14 p.04x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-14] ADH2.086x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_1#31 p.049x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_2#13 p.114x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.109x MMG2#277 p.310x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-313.html] MMG2#347 p.386x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-389.html] MUH1.0532 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=63] YHA1.101-102x (1.207) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=103]

SWAB#233 [http://www.bahai.org/r/816927999] BPRY.155-157x [http://www.bahai.org/r/375442376] BPRY.319x [http://www.bahai.org/r/408671348] BSC.548 #993 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v12#14 p.229-231 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_14] BSTW#103 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=6]

M.C. Kennedy [https://youtu.be/mLjkUmAaU_4]

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for firmness in the Covenant, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers

AB00205

810

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ترانی مکبا بوجهی علی تراب الذل و الانکسار و اتذلل الی

Glory be unto Thee, O my God! Thou seest me rolling my face in the dust of humility and contrition, supplicating toward the Kingdom of Thy Might

INBA16:073 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=75] INBA84:529 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=532]

BRL_DAK#0559 [https://www.bahai.org/r/816124163] MKT4.156 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-156.html] MILAN.100 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/100.jpg] DUR3.258x MJMJ2.027 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-28.html] MMG2#237 p.265 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-268.html]

TAB.570-574 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA570]

@call to action, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @prayer for praise and gratitude, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @growth of the Cause, @being a source of light; guidance

AB00203

810

mixed

ای منادی پیمان ایامی میگذرد که در مخابره و مکاتبه فتور حاصل سبب اینست که آتش

O Herald of the Covenant! Days have passed wherein there occurred a pause in correspondence and communication. The cause of this is that the fire [3.5s]... ...At whatever time all the beloved of God in each country appoint their delegates, and these in turn elect their representatives, and these representatives elect a body, that body shall be regarded as the Supreme Baytu'l-'Adl… The Bab, the Exalted One, is the Morn of Truth, the splendor of Whose light shineth throughout all regions

BRL_CUHJP#17x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] BRL_CUHJP#57x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] MKT3.498 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-498.html] AKHA_119BE #08 p.jx [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_116BE #10 p.336x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK4.296x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-300.html] YHA1.100 (1.203) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=102]

BRL_CUHJ#17x [http://www.bahai.org/r/318979400] BRL_CUHJ#57x [http://www.bahai.org/r/519655386] BADM.084x [http://www.bahai.org/r/275919488] GPB.057x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/242445030] WOB.127x [http://www.bahai.org/r/180065536] COC#0763x LOG#1058x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1058]

@House of Justice, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB11806

810

Persian

بهائیان بجان و دل خدمت بجمعیت اتحاد و ترقی مینمایند و هم مسلک و هم مشربند و

The Bahá'ís are serving the cause of unity and progress with heart and soul, and they share the same path and principles [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0179 [http://www.bahai.org/r/637027259]

@East and West; communication between East and West, @non-participation in politics, @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha

AB00206

Some Answered Questions #041 Universal Cycles

810

Persian

همچنان که این اجرام نورانیه در این فضای نامتناهی هر یک را دوری زمانیست

Each of the luminous bodies of this limitless firmament has its cycle of revolution

MFD#41 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-116.html] DWNP_v2#08 p.068-069 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] OOL.C022.41 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-06-fa]

SAQ#41 [http://www.bahai.org/r/544017997]

@the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

ABU0253

The Ninth Principle—The Noninterference of Religion with Politics: Words spoken at Dreyfus home in Paris, 1911-11-17

810

mixed

Provisional Translations of Selected Writings of the Báb, Baháʼuʼlláh, and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá; Tablet on the Inmost Heart

انسان باید در عالم وجود امید بمکافات و خوف از مجازات داشته باشد علی الخصوص

In the conduct of life, man is actuated by two main motives: 'The Hope for Reward' and 'The Fear of Punishment'.... Oh, friends of God, be living examples of justice! ... Justice is not limited, it is a universal quality.

BRL_DAK#0957 [https://www.bahai.org/r/141325430] KHF.286 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=289] KHAB.175 (186) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.174 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-176.html]

ADJ.028bx [http://www.bahai.org/r/656762538] PT#49 p.163 [http://www.bahai.org/r/795924103] BSC.425 #768.3x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#02 p.007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_2] SW_v07#15 p.139 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] ABS#02 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/11/18/involvement-of-the-faithful-in-political-life-and-showing-justice-in-all-walks-of-life/]

@reward and punishment, @relationship between government and people, @justice and mercy, @non-participation in politics, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization

ABU0254

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-22

810

At the time that His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh was in the mountains of Suleymanieh one of the young rugged, illiterate Kurds living in the valley came to see Him... His name was Mullah Ali Mardan.

DAS.1913-02-22

@Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @stories; anecdotes, @love of God, @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00207

800

Arabic

Tablet on the Inmost Heart

الحمد لله الذی اشرق علی الفواد بنور الرشاد و نور القلوب بسطوع ایات القدس بکل

All praise be to God Who hath shone forth upon the heart with the light of Divine guidance

INBA21:143b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=73] INBA55:178 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=180] INBA59:075 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=77] INBA88:041 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=75] INBA90:143 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v090/?page=145] UMich962.065-069 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.038-043 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0578 [https://www.bahai.org/r/519493405] MKT1.109 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-108.html] MNMK#014 p.083 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-81.html]

BLO_PT#213 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_mccants_inmost_heart] BLO_sazedj#25 [https://bahai-library.com/sazedj_provisional_translations] HURQ.AB01 [https://hurqalya.ucmerced.edu/node/189/]

@four methods of acquiring knowledge, @purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity, @intuition; inspiration, @inmost heart [fu'Ã¡d]

AB00208

800

Persian

ای احباء و اماء الرحمن نامه ای از محفل روحانی لازانجلیز رسید دلیل بر آن بود که

O ye friends and maidservants of the Merciful! From the Spiritual Assembly of Los Angeles a letter hath been received... ...In accordance with the explicit text of the Kitab-i-Aqdas Baha'u'llah hath made the Center of the Covenant

MKT3.084 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-84.html] MNMK#124 p.239 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-237.html] MMK1#185 p.204 [https://www.bahai.org/r/791381682] AKHA_126BE #03p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_117BE #05-06 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] HMQ.090 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/706.pdf#page=93]

SWAB#185 [http://www.bahai.org/r/329025704] GPB.238x [http://www.bahai.org/r/178395478] WOB.136x [http://www.bahai.org/r/553653426] COC#0223x SW_v10#14 p.265-267 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_14] BSTW#030 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=39] BSTW#042 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=55] ECN.509 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=509] ACOA.058-061

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Judas, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00212

800

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی انی اتوجه الیک بوجه ناظر الی ملکوت رحمانیتک و قلب خافق

Glorified art Thou, O my God! I turn my face unto Thee with a countenance fixed upon the Kingdom of Thy mercy and a throbbing heart [3.5s]

INBA16:141 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=143]

BRL_DAK#0515 [https://www.bahai.org/r/522339017] PYK.288 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=305]

@suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @prayer for the departed, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00213

800

mixed

یا من اشتعل من نار محبه الله و هاجر من الله الی الله وفقنی الله و ایاک علی

O thou who art set ablaze with the fire of the love of God and who hast migrated from God unto God! May God make both thee and me steadfast [3.5s]

MMK6#036 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=30]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @love of God, @fire and light; fire and water, @spiritual transformation

AB00214

800

mixed

یا من ثبت الله قلبه علی المیثاق عند ما تجلل نیر الافاق بحجاب الغیاب یا ابن

O thou whose heart God hath made firm in the Covenant when the Luminary of the horizons was veiled by the clouds of concealment, O son [3.5s]... ...As to goodly deeds and charitable donations, these will certainly diminish the misdeeds of the departed and add to their good works... ...Thou hast asked about the general criterion with regard to heresy

BRL_DAK#0691 [https://www.bahai.org/r/224249739] BRL_CUHJP#18x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] MMK6#308x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=227] AVK3.371.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-375.html] AVK3.448.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-452.html] MAS2.104-108 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-105.html] YMM.342x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=350] ABDA.089-091 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=97]

BRL_CUHJ#18x [http://www.bahai.org/r/318979407] ADMS#081x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-charitable-donations/]

@call to action, @Shrines and Holy places, @spiritual transformation, @development of capacity and readiness, @prayer for the departed, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @thankfulness; gratitude, @justice and wrath of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0259

Address to the Baha'is at MacNutt home in New York, 1912-06-16

800

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

ABU0260

Address to the Baha'is at Rauscher's Hall in Washington, 1912-11-09

800

I feel a keen sense of joy in being present at this banquet this evening, for -- praise be to God!

PUP#124 (p.418-421) [http://www.bahai.org/r/857292265] SW_v06#13 p.097-099 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_13]

@serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @prayer for praise and gratitude, @praise and encouragement, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @universal peace; world unity, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness

ABU0262

Public address given on 1912-04-25

800

The greatest power in the realm and range of human existence is spirit -- the divine breath

BDA1.051n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-51.html]

BWF.260-263 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#024 (p.058-060) [http://www.bahai.org/r/135595732] SW_v03#03 p.022-023 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3] BSTW#336e [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=52]

MHMD1.059 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=84]

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @The Holy Spirit, @the human soul, @spiritual transformation, @realms of being; three realms; five realms

ABU0256

Public address given on 1912-11-10

800

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

AB00211

Some Answered Questions #020 Baptism and the Changing Law of God

800

Persian

تغیر احوال و تبدل و انقلاب زمان از لوازم ذاتیهء ممکنات است و لزوم ذاتی از حقیقت اشیاء

The change and transformation of conditions and the succession and revolution of ages are among the essential requirements

MFD#20 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-71.html] OOL.C022.20 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-05-fa]

SAQ#20 [http://www.bahai.org/r/332904480]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @Manifestation of God as divine physician, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @changing and unchanging parts of religion

AB00209

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Southern states II)

800

mixed

ای نفوس مبارکه محترمه فلاسفه قرون اولی و علماء قرون وسطی و فلاسفه قرون اخیره

O ye blessed, respected souls! The philosophers of the ancients, the thinkers... O my God! O my God! Thou seest me in my lowliness and weakness

MKT3.041 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-41.html] DUR1.577x RRT.146x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=146] ADH2.112x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_3#05 p.145x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.017x MMG2#062 p.066x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-69.html] MJH.064bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-65.html] FRTB.074 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=72]

TDP#10 [http://www.bahai.org/r/464482325] BPRY.214-215x [http://www.bahai.org/r/783753738] BSC.511 #975 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#06 p.100-102 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_6]

K. Key [https://katkeymusic.bandcamp.com/track/lights-and-suns] T. Nosrat [https://taraznosrat.bandcamp.com/track/southern-states-prayer] Heroes Teaching Conference [https://youtu.be/IcoP3TtF9NA] Y. Mesbah [https://youtu.be/pKCZdp36ZEA] Sasha, Saeon and Sam [https://youtu.be/8HRKTkX4qzc]

UDP.013

@prayer for teaching, @growth of the Cause, @love and unity, @call to action, @station of the Manifestation of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00210

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Western states II)

800

mixed

ای یاران و اماء رحمن مختارین ملکوت خطه مبارکه کالیفورنیا نهایت مشابهت بارض

O ye friends and the maidservants of the Merciful, the chosen ones of the Kingdom! The blessed state of California... O God! O God! This is a broken-winged bird and his flight is very slow

MKT3.049 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-49.html] RRT.147 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/310.pdf#page=147] ADH2.105x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] ADH2_3#01 p.140x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/i/ishraq-khavari_adhkar_muqarrabin_2.pdf] MJMJ1.014x MMG2#060 p.064x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-67.html] MJH.062x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-63.html] FRTB.082 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=80]

TDP#12 [http://www.bahai.org/r/397076212] BPRY.216-217x [http://www.bahai.org/r/186814289] BSC.520 #979 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#10 p.198-200 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_10] BSTW#012x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=16]

W. Heath [https://walterheath.bandcamp.com/track/broken-winged-bird] G. Sky [https://badasht.bandcamp.com/track/broken-winged-bird] Nabil and Karim [https://youtu.be/PqcOGFaUJAI] D. Stollar [https://youtu.be/vkVjqUyD6Hk] D. E. Walker [https://davidedwardwalker.bandcamp.com/track/prayer-for-the-western-states] Strong Steep [https://strongsteep.bandcamp.com/track/broken-winged-bird-3] C. Zein [https://youtu.be/DywU0RQoSgY] R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 7] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan] A. & M. Zemke [track 2] [https://9starmedia.com/anthony-and-michael-zemke-strive]

UDP.031

@prayer for teaching, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @call to action

ABU0255

Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Cincinnati, 1912-11-04

800

Persian

امروز در جمیع جهان افکار مادیه انتشار یافته و احساسات روحانیه بکلی منقطع

Today throughout all the world have material thoughts spread abroad, and spiritual sentiments been wholly severed [3.5s]

KHF.011 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=14] KHTB2.321 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-323.html] KHTB3.011 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-13.html]

BDA1.354 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-354.html] MHMD1.372 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=397]

@power of the mind over nature, @human reality created in the image of God, @man's distinction from the animal, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

ABU0257

Words spoken at Theosophical Society in London, 1911-10-03

800

mixed

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

ABU0258

Words spoken on 1915-09-20 in Haifa

800

Persian

ایادی امر الله علیهم نفحات الرحمن که در ایام مبارک بودند اکثرشان بافق اعلی صعود کردند

The Hands of the Cause of God, upon whom be wafted the fragrances of the All-Merciful, who lived in those blessed days, have, for the most part, ascended unto the All-Highest Horizon [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-09-20 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0261

Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-31

800

In the world of existence it is possible that the truth should not become known? No, e.g., if we were not faithful towards the government they certainly would find out.

PN_1919 p056 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=56]

@connection between material and spiritual worlds, @free will and predestination; fate, @justice and wrath of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB00215

790

mixed

ادعوک یا الهی بقلبی و لسانی و روحی و جنانی و اناجیک فی بهره ظلام سابل الاذیال

I call upon Thee, O my God, with my heart and my tongue, my spirit and my innermost being, and I commune with Thee in the depths of this darkness that hath descended [3.5s]... ...O ye My faithful loved ones! Should at any time afflicting events come to pass in the Holy Land, never feel disturbed or agitated

AMK.003-008 AVK4.446x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-450.html] AYT.524x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-524.html] DWNP_v3#03-4 p.023-024x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] MAS5.145bx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-145.html] HYB.153x

GPB.309x [http://www.bahai.org/r/366481740] PAB.025x [https://bahai-library.com/shoghieffendi_blomfield_passing_abdulbaha]

@firmness in the Covenant, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @prayer for nearness to God, @petitions to authorities, @non-participation in politics, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

AB00216

790

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی انشا فی عالم الکیان غیب الاکوان حقیقه ثابته نورانیه فائضه علی

Praise be unto Him Who hath brought forth, in the realm of being, from the unseen worlds, a luminous and steadfast Reality that doth overflow with grace [3.5s]

INBA89:258 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=261]

BRL_DAK#0565 [https://www.bahai.org/r/118864522] MKT2.130 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-130.html] MNMK#013 p.080 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-78.html] MILAN.195 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/195.jpg] AVK2.158.12 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-159.html] AVK2.192.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-193.html] AVK2.206.16x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-207.html] AVK4.119.13x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-123.html]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @imagery in the Qur'an, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

AB00217

790

O thou attracted Maid servant of God, Mrs Brittingham. Convey the following- To Susan Isabel Moody: The greeting of the Kingdom from Abdul-Baha.

BSTW#503 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_500-507.pdf#page=3]

@praise and encouragement

AB00219

790

mixed

یا من انجذب الی الملکوت و شرب الکاس التی مزاجها کافور در این ایام که فیوضات

O thou who art attracted to the Kingdom and hast quaffed from the cup whose essence is of camphor! In these days when the outpourings [3.5s]... ...Indifference breeds deterioration. Silence is the cause of retrogression. Thoughtlessness leads to forgetfulness. Passivity, inaction, produce oblivion.... Consider the story of Simon the Rock [Peter]: Two of the Apostles of His Holiness, the Spirit [Jesus], went to the city of Antioch to teach the Cause of God

INBA72:041 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=44] INBA88:116 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=150]

BRL_DAK#0570 [https://www.bahai.org/r/481623339] MKT1.471 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-470.html]

BSC.439 #798x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v13#07 p.180-181x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_7] BSTW#271d [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=38] BTO#05x [https://bahaiteachings.org/peter-antioch-wisdom-first-christians/]

@methods of teaching the Cause, @call to action, @the power of words; of speech, @wisdom [hikmat], @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00220

790

mixed

یار عزیز مهربان تحریر بلیغ که بتاریخ چهارم مارت سنه ۱۹۰۱ مورخ بود رسید از

O beloved and kind friend! Your eloquent letter dated March 4th, 1901, was received and [3.5s]... ...From its heading sweet scent arose and brought fragrance to the soul…. The captivating and winsome figure of amity and concord will one day appear in the assemblage of the world

CMB_F66#19b

BRL_DAK#0567 [https://www.bahai.org/r/929985432] MMK4#186 p.227 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-230.html] MSHR3.036 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-38.html]

EGBBF.105-106x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/balyuzi_browne_bahai_faith.pdf]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @universal peace; world unity, @war and peace, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

ABU0268

Address to the Baha'is at Bahá'í Temple Unity in Chicago, 1912-04-30

790

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

AB00218

Tablet of the Divine Plan (U.S. and Canada I)

790

mixed

ای نفوس مبارکه من از برای شماها فوز و فلاح ابدی میخواهم و موفقیت تامه در جهان

O ye blessed souls! I desire for you eternal success and prosperity... O Thou incomparable God! O Thou Lord of the Kingdom! These souls are Thy heavenly army.

MKT3.015 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-15.html] AKHA_122BE #05 p.383x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AHB.121BE #02 p.000x PYB#176 p.25x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/176.PDF#page=25] DUR3.075x DUR1.301x ANDA#58 p.19x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-58] ANDA#64 p.12x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-64-hi] MJMJ1.095x MMG2#071 p.078x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-81.html] MJH.039ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-40.html] FRTB.048 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=46] MMJA.027x

TDP#06 [http://www.bahai.org/r/610648648] BPRY.205-206x [http://www.bahai.org/r/379011399] ADJ.049-050x [http://www.bahai.org/r/874184899] ADJ.055x [http://www.bahai.org/r/138409678] ADJ.070x [http://www.bahai.org/r/811127176] COF.010x [http://www.bahai.org/r/739999574] COF.016x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/591553684] COF.017x [http://www.bahai.org/r/686315654] COF.029x [http://www.bahai.org/r/627098777] BSC.527 #982 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#15 p.280-282 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_15]

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 1] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan]

UDP.046

@prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @call to action

ABU0264

Words spoken on 1912-07-12 in Brooklyn

790

Persian

عالم امکان نظیر انسان است انسان مقام نطفه مقام شیرخواری اوقات نشو و نما وقت

The contingent world is like unto the life of man: as man traverseth from the station of the embryo unto infancy and thence through the periods of growth and maturity [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0782 [https://www.bahai.org/r/615883198] KHF.031 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=34] KHAB.343 (350) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.181 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-183.html] NJB_v04#03 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_3]

@coming-of-age; maturity of mankind, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @universal peace; world unity, @power of the mind over nature, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

ABU0263

Words spoken on 1915-09-06 in Haifa

790

Persian

انسان باید به همه چیز معتاد باشد و از سردی و گرمی و خوشی و حزن عالم بچشد و از سیری و گرسنگی رو برنگرداند

Man must become accustomed unto all things, and taste of the cold and heat and joy and sorrow of the world, and turn not away from fullness nor from hunger [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-09-06 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@mind as intermediary between soul and body, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @effort; striving, @knowledge of self

ABU0267

Words to Fugeta, Dr. Esslemont et al, spoken on 1920-01-04

790

When one is quiet the thing is forgotten. When discussion is forbidden the matter will be dropped... You cannot go according to an individual's conscience... It is the explicitly text that no one should disagree... The purpose of this is that no one may say that the House of Justice has made a mistake.

PN_1919 p064 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=64] PN_1920 p014 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=14] PN_1920 p024 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=24]

@contention and conflict, @unity; oneness of humanity, @consultation, @House of Justice

ABU0266

Words to Hannen, Latimer et al, spoken on 1912-07-31

790

Anyone whom I send to a place is confirmed; anyone. One of them is Miss Alma Knobloch... Answer the questioner: What is the use of your creation? What benefit have you given to the world?

COC#0422x [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_importance_deepening#422] SW_v03#11 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_11] PN_1912 p007 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=7] PN_1912 p156 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=156]

@purpose; goal of creation, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness

ABU0265

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-13

790

When I was in Alexandria, Ahmad Aniss, the minister of [...] of the Khedivial court called upon me and proposed to me that he would like to arrange a meeting between his Highness the Khedive and myself.

DAS.1914-11-13

@status of kings; future of monarchy, @means of establishment of future civilization, @universal peace; world unity, @unity of governments; political unity, @war and peace, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB00221

780

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه مفصل شما را با وجود آنکه بجان عزیزت فرصت قرائت یکسطر

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Though I have not the time to read even a single line, thy detailed letter [3.5s]

INBA85:353 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=355]

AVK3.319.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-323.html] SFI06.015bx [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_06.pdf#page=15] ANDA#67-68 p.36 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-67-68-hi] YMM.042-044 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=50]

@constitutional revolution in Iran, @critique of Eastern values; culture, @past, present and future of Iran

AB00222

780

mixed

ای یاران رحمانی از ایران حوادثی متتابع میرسد که سبب تاسف و احزانست و یاران

O ye friends of the All-Merciful! From Iran come successive calamities that cause sorrow and lamentation among the friends [3.5s]

INBA16:031 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=33]

MKT4.118 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-118.html] MILAN.097 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/097.jpg] AVK3.228.15x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-232.html] MAS9.133x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-134.html]

@Imam Husayn, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @martyrs and martyrdom, @petitions to authorities, @love of God

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

AB11807

780

Arabic

اللهم کیف احصی الثناء علیک و انطق بالمحامد و النعوت تبتلا الیک و استغرق فی بحر مناجاتی الیک

O God! How can I recount Thy praise, or voice thine attributes and glorification in my communion with Thee, or become immersed in the ocean of my supplications unto Thee? [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0452 [http://www.bahai.org/r/231560678]

@prayer for the departed, @proclamation of the Cause (general or uncategorized), @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @apocalyptic imagery, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @banishments of Baha'u'llah, @eulogies; reminiscences

ABU0269

Words spoken on 1916-06-06 in Haifa

780

Persian

اگر یک سیلی به تو بزنم به عالم دیگر پرواز می کنی. به این مناسبت ذکر اجراء حدود الهیه شد که چقدر تأثیر دارد

Shouldst thou receive from Me but a single blow, thou wouldst take flight unto the other world. Thus hath mention been made of the execution of divine ordinances, and how potent is their influence [3.5s]

ZSM.1916-06-06 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@stories; anecdotes, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0271

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-02-17

780

I have certain things that attract the confirmations of God. They are so wonderful and extraordinary that if I tell them, some people may not accept them as facts.

DAS.1913-02-17

@power of prayer, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @Shrines and Holy places, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @rejection, opposition and persecution, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha

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

ABU0270

Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-12-05

780

Persian

این روز آخر و ملاقات آخری است حالا دیگر سوار واپور شده

This is our last day and my last meeting with you. In a few minutes our steamer will leave these shores

ANDA#43-44 p.165 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-43-44] KHF.263 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=266] KHAB.390 (395) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.343 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-345.html] BDA1.412.11 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-412.html]

PUP#140 (p.468-470) [http://www.bahai.org/r/903815494] DAS.1912-12-05 SW_v03#18 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_18] SW_v13#04 p.079 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_4] MHMD1.429-432 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=454] DJT.391-392x [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027x [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BSTW#117 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=33]

@mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @call to action, @love and unity, @unity; oneness of humanity, @war and peace, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction

AB00223

770

mixed

الحمد لله الذی انشا حقیقه نورانیه و کینونیه رحمانیه و هویه ربانیه و کلمه

Praise be unto God Who hath brought into being the luminous Reality, the merciful Essence, the divine Identity, and the Word [3.5s]

UMich962.135-137 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.086-091 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

MKT1.151 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-150.html] AKHA_120BE #08-09.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/]

@limits of the intellect, @spiritual transformation, @intuition; inspiration, @four methods of acquiring knowledge, @empty learning; false spirituality, @literal interpretation, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge

AB00224

770

mixed

ای کنیز الهی نامه شما رسید مضامین دلالت بر ثبوت بر میثاق داشت لهذا امید چنان

O thou maidservant of God! Thy letter was received, and its contents testified to thy firmness in the Covenant… Now one must either say that the Blessed Beauty erred and led the people astray

NURA#58 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] BRL_CUHJP#86x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] MMK4#148 p.156 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-159.html]

BRL_ATE#068x [http://www.bahai.org/r/256173251] BRL_CUHJ#86x [http://www.bahai.org/r/692132066] LOTW#58 [http://www.bahai.org/r/774821855] SW_v10#14 p.268-270 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_14] BSTW#013 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=17] BSTW#269 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=34]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @interpretation of dreams and visions, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @soul; spirit after death

AB00225

770

mixed

ای منادی پیمان نامه مفصل رسید مضمون مورث روح و ریحان بود و اخبار دلیل بر

O herald of the Covenant! Thy detailed letter was received and its contents brought forth spirit and sweet fragrance, whilst its tidings gave evidence of [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0173 [http://www.bahai.org/r/700118232] MKT4.091 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-91.html] AKHA_133BE #09 p.202 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AMK.117-120 MSBH7.078-082 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/253.pdf#page=40] YIA.279-281 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=275]

@education of children; moral education, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @high station of learning

AB00226

770

mixed

در ایّام نور هدی و سراج ملأ اعلی حضرت رسول محمّد بن عبداللّه علیه آلاف من التّحیّة و الثّنآء

In the days of the Light of Guidance and the Lamp of the Concourse on High, His Holiness Muhammad, the Messenger, Son of 'Abdu'llah—upon Him be a myriad greetings and praise [3.5s]

PYM.383-386x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-383.html]

@suffering and imprisonment, @episodes from the early history of Islam, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @rejection of Muhammad

AB00229

770

mixed

رب و رجائی انی امرغ جبینی بتراب عتبتک العلیا و اضعه علی الثری راکعا ساجدا

O my Lord and my Hope! I press my brow to the dust of Thy most exalted threshold, and lay it upon the earth in humble prostration [3.5s]

MKT5.113b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-114.html] MSHR2.130x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-132.html]

@business; financial; property matters, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @permission for visit; pilgrimage

AB00230

770

Arabic

رب و رجائی و ملجای و منائی و مهربی و ملاذی و مامنی و معاذی انی ابتهل الیک

O Lord, my Hope, my Refuge, my Desire, my Sanctuary, my Shelter, my Haven, and my protecting Guardian! Verily, I turn in earnest supplication unto Thee [4o]

BRL_DAK#0473 [http://www.bahai.org/r/826437263] TSHA3.579 [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/tsha3.pdf#page=587]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for justice and fairmindedness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @prayer for opponents; enemies of the Faith

AB00231

770

Arabic

سبحان من اشرق عن افق التوحید سبحان من لاح عن مطلع التفرید سبحان من نطق بالحق

Glorified be He Who hath shone forth from the horizon of unity! Glorified be He Who hath dawned from the dayspring of oneness! Glorified be He Who hath spoken forth with truth! [3.5s]

TZH8.0507-511 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol5/tzh8a/TZHVol8a.pdf#page=509]

@praise and encouragement, @call to action, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

AB00232

770

Your last letter was received and I was informed of all its contents. You had written concerning the beloved of God and the slight difference of opinions.

CUPAB.012x [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_compilation_utterances_station] BSTW#164 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=25] BSTW#199 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=88] BSTW#309 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=13] BSTW#448 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_401-450.pdf#page=48]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @twin Manifestations, @martyrs and martyrdom, @love and unity, @words vs deeds

AB00233

770

mixed

یا من یسمع یناحی و صیاحی و نوحی و حنینی الیه فی جنح اللیالی و صباحی و اسحاری

O Thou Who hearest my lamentation and my cry, my weeping and my yearning toward Thee in the depths of night, at daybreak and in the morning hours [3.5s]... ...You wrote that the renovation of the House [of the Bab] might produce a great tumult. Indeed, the illustrious Áqa Mírza Aqay-i-Afnan, upon him be the Glory of God

INBA87:287 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=289] INBA52:291 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=293]

MMK6#549x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=401] MSHR3.052x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-54.html]

AFNAN.178-180x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/r/rabbani_habibullah_afnan_memories.pdf#page=180]

@prayer for tests and difficulties, @firmness in the Covenant, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @wisdom [hikmat], @business; financial; property matters, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU0275

Public address given on 1912-04-14

770

Persian

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

ABU0280

Public address given on 1912-11-07

770

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

AB00227

Some Answered Questions #045 The Most Great Infallibility

770

Persian

بدان که عصمت بر دو قسم است عصمت ذاتیه و عصمت صفاتیه

Know that infallibility is of two kinds: infallibility in essence and infallibility as an attribute.

MFD#45 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-124.html] OOL.C022.45 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-10-fa]

SAQ#45 [http://www.bahai.org/r/982518737] LOG#1065x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=2#n1065]

@infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @station of the Manifestation of God, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @House of Justice

AB00228

Some Answered Questions #061 The Immortality of the Spirit (2)

770

Persian

دیروز در بحث بقای روح بودیم بدان که تصرف و ادراک روح انسانی بر دو نوع است

Yesterday we were discussing the immortality of the spirit. Know that the influence and perception of the human spirit is of two kinds

MFD#61 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-162.html] BSHN.140.509x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-516.html] BSHN.144.497x MHT1a.152x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=153] MHT1b.110x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=110] OOL.C022.61 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-16-fa]

SAQ#61 [http://www.bahai.org/r/812611389] BWF.326-328 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @existence; immortality of the human soul, @relationship of the soul to the body, @mind as intermediary between soul and body

ABU0281

The Universal Love: Words spoken on 1911-10-24 in Paris

770

The Message of Krishna is the message of love. All God's prophets have brought the message of love.... The power of the Holy Spirit enlightening man's intelligence has enabled him to discover

PT#09 p.025 [http://www.bahai.org/r/225333425] SW_v08#08 p.097x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8] SAS.108x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/m/maud_sparks_among_stubble.pdf] CHH.153x [https://bahai-library.com/blomfield_chosen_highway]

E. Mahony [https://music.elikamahony.com/track/we-must-look-higher-feat-cheng-lin] E. Mahony [https://youtu.be/CFWsLFc0cvs] Shay & Camila [https://youtu.be/ZEcKNTpPkzo] S. Peyman [https://youtu.be/cvwS-IRf2tQ]

@consorting with all; being kind; loving to all, @words vs deeds, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @The Holy Spirit, @love of God, @unity in diversity, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East, @oneness; unity of religion, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0276

There Can Be No True Happiness and Progress without Spirituality: Words spoken on 1911-11-21 in Paris

770

Persian

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

ABU0274

Words spoken on 1913-12-20 in Haifa

770

Persian

امروز رفتم یک قدری تا این پائین ها راه رفتم خوب بود عجب است انسان اگر توی

Today I came down here. It was a pleasant walk. Praise be to God, that, through the favor

NJB_v05#11 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_11]

SW_v09#02 p.019+023 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_2]

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @Shrines and Holy places, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0278

Words spoken on 1914-03-07

770

The greatest proof of the Blessed Perfection - may my life be a ransom to him! - consists in the fact that he was always manifest and evident under all conditions

DAS.1914-03-07 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=31] SW_v07#04 p.026-027x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_4] SW_v08#13 p.178x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @station of the Manifestation of God, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @love of God, @suffering and imprisonment

ABU0273

Words spoken on 1916-02-16 in Haifa

770

Persian

اگر نفی جمال مبارک نبود این بشارات تحقق نمی یافت ولی عظمت امر در این است که اعدا مسبب این ارتقاع شدند

Had it not been for the deniers of the Blessed Beauty, these glad-tidings would not have been fulfilled; yet the greatness of the Cause lieth in this, that the adversaries became themselves the cause of its exaltation [3.5s]

ZSM.1916-02-16 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

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

ABU0279

Words to pilgrims in June 1906

770

This was a place for dirt and refuse and loathsome to look upon. During the days when Akka was in confusion and the whirlwind of tests was violent, and a rumor persisted

PN_1906 p066 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=66] SUR.256-258 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=263] BLO_PN#001 [https://bahai-library.com/ali-khan_pilgrim-notes_1906]

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @need for an educator

AB00234

760

mixed

الحمد لله الذی ذرء دره بیضاء و فریده نوراء و جوهره غراء و یتیمه عصماء متلئلئه

Praise be unto Him Who hath brought forth a lustrous pearl, a radiant gem, a brilliant jewel, and a singular and immaculate treasure, resplendent in its light [3.5s]

INBA21:053 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=27]

@power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @growth of the Cause, @praise and encouragement, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00240

760

mixed

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

AB00239

760

mixed

ای یادگار سه بزرگوار عموی بزرگوارت حضرت حاجی حسن با رخی چون ماه روشن در انجمن

O remnant of three great souls! Thy distinguished uncle, the honorable Ḥají Ḥasan, burned fervently day and night

INBA88:231 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=265]

AKHA_117BE #11-12 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/]

ADMS#272 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00239/]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @love of God

AB00238

760

...Mr. Mountfort Mills, Mrs. Alice Breed... displayed selfless effort... Mrs. Rohanna Bogislav and her daughter, Elfrida Martin, sang such a melody

BSTW#086x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=91]

@praise and encouragement, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @naming of children; of individuals

AB00237

760

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه ۱۹ ربیع الثانی ۱۳۳۷ وصول یافت از مضامین کام مشتاقان

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter of 19 Rabi'u'th-Thani 1337 was received, and from its contents the hearts of the yearning ones were made glad [3.5s]... ...As to the handmaids of the Merciful in Yazd, it can truly be said that they have done whatever is within the power of women to accomplish

MKT4.043 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-43.html] YHA1.415x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=417] YARP2.302 p.247 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-253.html] RMT.040-043 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] YARD.049x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/yar-i-dirin.pdf#page=49] YARD.139-142 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/yar-i-dirin.pdf#page=139]

ADMS#215x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00237/]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @prophecy and fulfillment, @relationship between government and people, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00236

760

Persian

ای بنده حضرت یزدان در خصوص تربیت صبیان و تعلیم کودکان سوال نموده بودی اطفالی

O thou servant of God! Thou didst ask as to the education of children. Those children who, sheltered by the Blessed Tree, have set foot upon the world

BRL_DAK#0391 [http://www.bahai.org/r/990933486] AKHB.220 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/436.pdf#page=114] TRBB.060 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/236.pdf#page=64] MJTB.101 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] ANDA#26 p.56 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-26]

BRL_ATE#151 [http://www.bahai.org/r/877478787] COC#0627

@educational curricula, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @education of children; moral education

AB00235

760

mixed

ای بنده آستان مقدس نامه بیست و نهم ذی حجه ۱۳۲۸ رسید و نامه های دیگر بواسطه سفر

O servant of the Sacred Threshold! Thy letter dated the twenty-ninth of Dhi'l-Hijjih 1328 was received; the other letters, in the course of transmittal [3.5s]

INBA87:223 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=225] INBA52:228 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=230]

ASAT5.013x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=11] YMM.240x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=248]

@mystical themes, @empty learning; false spirituality, @alteration of the divine will [bada], @business; financial; property matters, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

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

ABU0282

The First Principle—Search after Truth: Words spoken on 1911-11-10 in Paris

760

Persian

دیروز رفتیم در جمعیت روحانیون چون آنجمع

If a man would succeed in his search after truth, he must, in the first place, shut his eyes to all the traditional superstitions of the past.

DWNP_v5#07-8 p.006x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] KHAB.146 (157) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.137 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-139.html]

PT#41 p.138x [http://www.bahai.org/r/394660818] SW_v03#01 p.003-004x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_1] DWN_v2#08 p.061-063x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @soul; spirit after death, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @blind imitation [taqlid], @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0284

Words spoken at 1815 California Street in San Francisco, 1912-10-07

760

I have been walking in the garden. There are many parks and gardens here…. When I was in the barracks of Acca, than which there is no worse place

ECN.110+493x+1005 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=110]

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @stories; anecdotes, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU0283

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-19

760

His holiness Bahá'u'lláh had a beautiful habit which was kept up till the last years of His life. Every evening after having partaken of His dinner He would retire inside of His mosquito net and then send for all the members of the blessed household

DAS.1915-03-19

@stories; anecdotes, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @humor; jokes, @methods of teaching the Cause, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past

AB12096

750

Persian

ای دختر عزیز من مکاتیب متعدده شما رسید مختصر بود و مفید از مضامینش معانی

O my cherished daughter! Thy numerous letters were received. Though brief, they were most meaningful in their contents [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0482 [http://www.bahai.org/r/193486834]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @call to action, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB07848

750

mixed

الحمد لله الذی تجلی من الافق الرحمانی علی العالم الانسانی و اضاء بالنور

Praise be to God Who hath dawned from the horizon of the All-Merciful upon the world of humanity and illumined it with light [3.5s]... ...In marriage the more distant the blood-relationship the better, for such distance in family ties between husband and wife provideth the basis for the well-being of humanity

BRL_DAK#0672 [https://www.bahai.org/r/791644511] COMP_FAMP#10x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/family_life_compilation_originals.pdf] AVK4.156.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-160.html] AVK4.173.09x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-177.html] GHA.186x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-195.html]

BRL_FAM#10x [http://www.bahai.org/r/411409534]

@laws of marriage and dowry, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @marriage as means of spiritual progress, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

AB04707

750

Persian

ای پروردگار ملجا بیچارگانی و ملاذ آوارگان فضل و عطایت درمان هر دردی و خوان

O Lord! Thou art the Refuge of the helpless and the Shelter of the wanderers. Thy grace and bounty are the remedy for every ill and the heavenly feast [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0544 [https://www.bahai.org/r/720758948] MMG2#299 p.332x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-335.html]

@relationship between government and people, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @spiritual transformation, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

AB00242

750

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

AB00243

750

mixed

ایها الحبیب الرحمانی البارع الصادع النورانی انی من هذه العدوه الدنیا

O beloved of the All-Merciful, O radiant and effulgent one who proclaimeth the Light! Verily, from this transient realm [3.5s]

MKT3.287 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-287.html] KHSH13.009 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_13] KHSH13.048 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_13]

@prayer for teaching, @suffering and imprisonment, @prophecy and fulfillment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

AB00244

750

mixed

حمدا لمن نشر رایاته و اظهر ایاته و اعلن کلماته و اوضح بیناته قد شرح الصدور

Praise be unto Him Who hath unfurled His banners, manifested His signs, proclaimed His words, and made clear His evidences! He hath, verily, gladdened the hearts [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0568 [https://www.bahai.org/r/358466324] MKT1.155 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-154.html] MNMK#024 p.104 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-102.html] MJMJ2.025x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-26.html] MMG2#321 p.359x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-362.html]

@prayer for spiritual recognition, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00245

750

O thou honorable martyr and the pioneer of the Cause of God! The letter which you had written on the 19th of December 1918

SW_v10#06 p.105-107 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_6]

@teachings as spirit of the age, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @praise of Western values; culture, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @prophecy and fulfillment

ABU0293

Public address given on 1912-05-03

750

According to the statement of philosophers the difference in degree of humankind from lowest

BWF.248-251 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#037 (p.084-087) [http://www.bahai.org/r/433614083] FWU.055 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#04 p.018-019 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_4]

@education of children; moral education, @differences in human capacity, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @Christ; Christianity, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world

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

AB00241

Tablet of the Divine Plan (Northeastern states II)

750

mixed

ای دوستان حقیقی جمیع اقالیم در نزد حق اقلیم واحد است و جمیع مدائن و قری یکسان

O ye real friends! All countries, in the estimation of the True One are but one country and all the cities and villages... O Thou kind Lord! Praise be unto Thee that Thou hast shown us the highway of guidance

MKT3.037 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-37.html] DWNP_v5#09 p.001-002x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] DUR1.027x ANDA#79 p.05x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-79] MJMJ1.102x MMG2#075 p.082x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-85.html] MJH.044x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-45.html] FRTB.070 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1431.pdf#page=68] NJB_v10#10 p.204x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_10]

TDP#09 [http://www.bahai.org/r/319344614] BPRY.212-214x [http://www.bahai.org/r/043321318] ADJ.006x [http://www.bahai.org/r/523815948] COF.027-028x [http://www.bahai.org/r/355520811] COF.035x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/580736086] GPB.254x [http://www.bahai.org/r/647760190] GPB.396x [http://www.bahai.org/r/400059869] TDH#158.5x [http://www.bahai.org/r/755603488] WOB.053x [http://www.bahai.org/r/460128217] WOB.077x [http://www.bahai.org/r/648750949] BSC.507 #973 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v10#04 p.069-071 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_4]

R. Grammer & G. Watson [track 4] [https://9starmedia.com/prayers-from-the-tablets-of-the-divine-plan] Ladjamaya [track 8] [https://9starmedia.com/ladjamaya-intone-o-my-servant]

UDP.007

@spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @prayer for teaching, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

ABU0285

The Fifth Principle—The Abolition of Prejudices: Words spoken on 1911-11-13 in Paris

750

Persian

از جمله اساس بهاء الله ترک تعصب وطنی و تعصب مذهبی و تعصب جنسی و تعصب سیاسی

Another principle of the teaching of Baha'o'llah is this: That you must renounce all prejudices

AMK.224-228 DWNP_v5#12 p.004-006 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927] KHAB.163 (174) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.158 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-160.html]

PT#45 p.151 [http://www.bahai.org/r/126151657] SW_v03#02 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_2] DWN_v3#01 p.010-011x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925]

@justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice, @oneness; unity of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @Judas

ABU0287

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-23

750

The artist has drawn very beautiful pictures for she has painted allegorical figures on this canvas - each figure carries a lantern

DAS.1913-01-23

@differences in human capacity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @effort; striving, @divine emanation is ceaseless; eternal

ABU0288

Words spoken at Shrine of the Báb, 1919

750

Persian

این کوه مقدّسی است که در تورات مذکور است، در جمیع کتب انبیای بنی اسرائیل مذکور است. اکثری از انبیای الهی به این کوه مقدّس آمدند

In days of old, by reason of the progress and civilization of the Phoenicians and the proximity of Haifa to Tyre and Sidon, there was prosperity and abundance [3.5s]

MLK.117-122 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/403.pdf#page=117]

@predictions and prophecies, @future of Haifa; of the Holy Land, @Shrines and Holy places, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]

ABU0289

Words spoken on 1914-06-06 in Tiberias

750

These are the harbingers of the coming of the spiritual springtime... Once a Mohammadan mullah thought that one of his fingers had become impure

DAS.1914-06-06 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=83] SW_v09#10 p.108-109x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_10] SW_v09#18 p.207x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_18] STAB#023 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=23]

@spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom, @words vs deeds, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @stories; anecdotes, @the Christian clergy

ABU0290

Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-21

750

From Bandar-i-Jaz, Jamal-i-Mubarak went to Nur and there he taught... He entered the village and most of the inhabitants became believers.

PN_1919 p044 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=44]

@suffering and imprisonment, @martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0291

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-07-18

750

God, addressing one of the great Prophets of the past, says: 'Dost thou find thou art able to guide a blind man

DAS.1914-07-18 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=55]

@spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @power of prayer, @corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @stories; anecdotes, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @degrees of faith; certitude

ABU0286

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-07-20

750

Today I was thinking over the following subject: The heavenly farmer came and cleared the ground from thorns and thistles.

DAS.1914-07-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=59]

@symbolism, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @light and darkness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world

AB00251

740

mixed

ای یار قدیم ای ثابت بر پیمان اگر چه مدتیست مدید که از کثرت موانع فرصتی نیافتم

O ancient friend and steadfast one in the Covenant! Although for a considerable time, due to numerous obstacles, I have found no opportunity [3.5s]... ...The root cause of wrongdoing is ignorance, and we must therefore hold fast to the tools of perception and knowledge… The subjects to be taught in children's school are many

BRL_DAK#0970 [https://www.bahai.org/r/893162690] MKT1.403 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-402.html] MNMK#109 p.205 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-203.html] MMK1#111 p.132x [https://www.bahai.org/r/578598622] AVK3.330.15x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-334.html] MJTB.067x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf]

SWAB#111x [http://www.bahai.org/r/431645390] BRL_SOCIAL#191x [http://www.bahai.org/r/684491283] COC#0628x COC#2221x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_writers_writing#2221] LOG#0494x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n494] LOG#0503x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n503] BW_v16p036-037x [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/the-bahai-world-vol16-1973-1976.pdf#page=36]

MANA [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/the-divine-foundation]

@educational curricula, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @education of children; moral education, @education and the development of capacity

AB00253

740

mixed

رب و رجائی و حرزی و ملاذی لک الحمد بما خلقت نفوسا رحمانیه و قلوبا نورانیه

O Lord, my hope, my stronghold, and my refuge! Praise be unto Thee for having brought into being souls endowed with divine compassion and hearts illumined with celestial light [3.5s]

INBA85:349 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=351]

MSHR5.263x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=259] YMM.050 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=58]

@constitutional revolution in Iran, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00252

740

mixed

ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء مکتوب مفصل که مرقوم نموده بودید رسید و بکمال دقت

O ye beloved friends of Abdul-Baha! The detailed letter which you have written was received and it was read with the greatest attention… You have written that there is a difference among the believers concerning the 'Second Coming of Christ'... O friends of God! ‘Abdu’l‑Baha is the embodiment of servitude and is not Christ... That which is true and real is this: that we become united and agreed in our purpose... My name is Abdu'l-Baha…

BRL_DAK#0064 [http://www.bahai.org/r/782613181] MMK4#167 p.188 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-191.html] MMK5#181 p.140 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-143.html] AHB.117BE #11 p.334 AVK4.287ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-291.html] AVK4.288cx [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-292.html] AYT.447x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-447.html] MAS9.145x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-146.html]

BRL_ATE#093x [http://www.bahai.org/r/672879021] TAB.429-433 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA429] WOB.139x [http://www.bahai.org/r/449960539] AIL.109x [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] DWN_v3#01 p.011bx [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] BSTW#174 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=43]

S. and S. Toloui-Wallace [https://youtu.be/dRYbkuYkhrI] D. Sylvester [https://youtu.be/_IpQ7wviRpw] B. Weber [https://bryanweberdevotions.bandcamp.com/track/the-servant-of-bah]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @unity; oneness of humanity, @return of Christ; second coming of Christ, @contention and conflict, @love and unity

AB00250

740

mixed

ای منادی میثاق مدتیست که قلم عبدالبهاء مخاطبا بانجناب چیزی ننگاشته ولی این

O herald of the Covenant! It hath been some time since the pen of 'Abdu'l-Baha hath addressed thee, yet this [4o]

BRL_DAK#0361 [http://www.bahai.org/r/493490480] AYBY.351 #034 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-360.html]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00249

740

mixed

ای منادی ملکوت دو نامه از شما رسید یکی قدیم و دیگری جدید

O thou herald of the Kingdom! I received thy two letters, an old one and

YMM.209x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=217]

LOG#1635x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1635] SW_v02#07 p.011-013 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_7]

@Theosophy, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @necessary and possible being, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @God's oneness [ahadiyyih and wahidiyyih], @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB00248

740

mixed

ای خادم درگاه حضرت پروردگار اگر صد هزار زبان بشکرانه بگشاای و بستایش این

O thou servant at the threshold of the Lord! Though thou shouldst unloose a hundred thousand tongues in thanksgiving and in praise [3.5s]

INBA88:090 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=124]

DUR1.543x

AB00247

740

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی تنزه ذاته و تقدست کینونته عن ادراک حقائق مشرقه عن افق العرفان

Praise be unto God, He Whose Essence transcendeth all things and Whose Being hath been sanctified beyond the comprehension of those realities that shine forth from the horizon of mystic knowledge [3.5s]

INBA59:081 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=83] INBA88:242 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=276] UMich962.055-058 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.022-027 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0553 [https://www.bahai.org/r/634458245] MKT1.133 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-132.html] MNMK#015 p.086 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-84.html]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @limits of the intellect, @knowledge; recognition of God, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence

AB00246

740

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی انطق الورقاء باحسن اللغی فی حدیقه الرحمن علی الاغصان بابدع

Praise be to God Who hath caused the tongue of the Mystic Dove to speak with the best of words in the Garden of the All-Merciful upon the boughs with the most wondrous of melodies

INBA55:149 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=151] INBA59:023b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=25] UMich962.069-072 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.043-047 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0645 [https://www.bahai.org/r/728521622] MKT1.114 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-113.html] MNMK#017 p.090 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-88.html] TZH6.1104-1107 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/arabic/vol3/tzh6/tzh6.htm] ABB.125 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol6/qubayn/qub125.gif]

SMR.292-295 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SMR.pdf#page=303]

@spiritual transformation, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @praise and encouragement, @exhortations and counsels, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0300

Public address given on 1912-04-17

740

During my visit to London and Paris last year I had many talks with the materialistic philosophers of Europe

BWF.251-254 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#009 (p.020-022) [http://www.bahai.org/r/553681942] FWU.045 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#10 p.010-011 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] SW_v15#01 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_1]

@limits of the intellect, @importance of authoritative interpretation, @intuition; inspiration, @The Holy Spirit

ABU0294

Public address given on 1912-06-11

740

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

ABU0295

Words spoken on 1914-07-12

740

Persian

در ایامی که در آمریکا بودم امة الله مسیس پارسنز مرا به محل ییلاقی خود برد

When I was in Dublin the professor of the out-door school invited me to visit the pupils

KHH1.260-263 (1.364-367) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=291]

KHHE.381-384 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-07-12 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=40] SW_v09#09 p.097-098x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_9] STAB#153 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=153]

@happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @high station of learning, @education of children; moral education

ABU0298

Words spoken to Kathryn Frankland at Haifa Pilgrim House, 1920-11-08

740

The people here are like animals. They are not awake. They are very negligent... These souls have life, not spiritual life...

PN_1920 p040 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=40] PN_1920 p098 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=98] PN_1920_heh_haifa p071 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh_haifa.pdf#page=71]

@reward and punishment, @murder; causing physical harm, @spiritual transformation, @equality of men and women

ABU0297

Words to Ethel Rosenberg et al, spoken around July 1904

740

As I said before, you must be sure whether the gardener is the True Gardener or not - if he is a true gardener what he does is right.... A wise schoolmaster should send his scholars out to play or to practice gymnastics

LOG#0491x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance.html&chapter=2#n491] SW_v09#08 p.091x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_8] PN_1900 p033 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=33]

@obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Manifestation of God as divine physician, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator

ABU0299

Words to Lua Getsinger, Dec. 1900

740

As the world follows a circle, so human beings travel in cycles. This illustration represents the cycle of man. All existence is created by the Infinite Essence.

PN_1900 p015 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=15] PN_1900 p052 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=52] PN_1900 p106 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=106] BLO_PN#033 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_chart_spiritual_evolution] BSTW#272 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=40]

@Manifestation of God as mirror, @reincarnation, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @arcs of ascent and descent, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @station of the Manifestation of God, @return of the Manifestations of God, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds

ABU0296

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-30

740

One day in the course of conversation Haji Siyyid Javad said to me: 'I was a good friend of Haji Siyyid Ali, the maternal uncle of the Báb.

DAS.1915-05-30

@the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @business; financial; property matters, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @power of the Manifestation of God

ABU0306

730

Many divine messengers have appeared in Persia, the land of many sects. One of these sects

ADP.062-067 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62]

@incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @changing and unchanging parts of religion

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

AB00254

730

mixed

ای ادیب دبستان الهی تحریرات متعدده آنجناب واصل گردید و مضامین دلنشین مفهوم

O thou teacher in the divine school! Numerous letters from thee were received and their sweet contents were understood [3.5s]... ...As regards the Huquq which hath been explicitly prescribed in the Book: This is intended for the benefit and prosperity of the individuals themselves

MMK5#174 p.134 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-137.html]

COC#1162x

@oneness; unity of religion, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Hands of the Cause, @call to unity; prohibition of disunity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause

AB00255

730

mixed

ای یاران الهی و اماء رحمن نامه شما رسید مضمون جمیع بیان التماس سفر عبدالبهاء

O divine friends and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! Your letter hath arrived, and the purport of its contents concerneth the journey of 'Abdu'l-Bahá [3.5s]

MKT3.305 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-305.html]

@prayer for specific individuals; groups, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @martyrs and martyrdom, @high station of the true believer

AB00257

730

mixed

لک الحمد یا الهی بما اشرقت الارض بنور ساطع من نیر الافاق و تجلیت علی الشجره

Praise be unto Thee, O my God, for having caused the earth to shine with a brilliant light from the Daystar of the horizons, and for having manifested Thyself upon the Tree [3.5s]

ABDA.020-021 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=28]

@acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @call to action, @praise and encouragement

AB00258

730

Arabic

یا من سمع نقرات الناقور و نغمات الصافور من الملا الاعلی فسبحان ربی الابهی انی

O thou who hast heard the beating of drums and the piping strains of the Concourse on High! Glorified be my Lord, the Most Glorious! Verily I [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0707 [https://www.bahai.org/r/222762260] MMK6#341 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=251] YIA.408-410 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=404] YMM.198x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=206] YMM.234x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=242] YMM.308x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=316] YMM.333x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=341] YMM.413x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=421] YMM.444x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=452]

@symbolism, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @firmness in the Covenant, @intelligible vs. perceptible realities, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

AB11626

730

mixed

ای کنیز عزیز جمال مبارک نامه مفصل با وجود عدم فرصت بدقت مطالعه گردید از صعود

O cherished maidservant of the Blessed Beauty! Despite the lack of time, your detailed letter was carefully read. Concerning the ascension [3.5s]

YIA.398-400 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=394]

@consolation and comfort, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @eulogies; reminiscences, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00259

Some Answered Questions #016 Intelligible Realities and their Expression through Sensible Forms

730

Persian

یک مسئله‌ئیست که خیلی مدار است از برای ادراک مسائل دیگر که ذکر نموده

There is a point that is pivotal to grasping the essence of the other questions that we have discussed

MFD#16 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-64.html] OOL.C022.16 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-01-fa]

SAQ#16 [http://www.bahai.org/r/254467773]

@symbolism, @intelligible vs. perceptible realities, @modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit

AB00256

Some Answered Questions #034 Peter and the Papacy

730

Persian

این بیان مسیح تصدیق قول پطرس است در وقتی که گفت چه اعتقاد بمن داری

This utterance of Christ is an affirmation of Peter's reply, when Christ asked: “Whom do ye believe me to be?”

MFD#34 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-100.html] OOL.C022.34 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-19-fa]

SAQ#34 [http://www.bahai.org/r/567510376] PN_1905 p008x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=8]

@Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @priestcraft, @Christian doctrine and practice, @high station of learning, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @religion as source; stimulus of knowledge and science, @the Christian clergy

ABU0307

Words spoken at reading room and library for the blind in San Francisco, 1912-10-13

730

This revered lady, Mrs. Rowan, is indeed doing the world of humanity a great and useful service, for she assists those who are blind

ECN.345+495x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=345]

@knowledge; recognition of God, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @power of imagination; thought; right intention

ABU0302

Words spoken at Theosophical Society in Liverpool, 1912-12-14

730

When I was in America, I had many opportunities of addressing the Theosophical Society there. In every city I spoke once to them

DAS.1912-12-14x SW_v03#17 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_17]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @oneness; unity of religion, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @martyrs and martyrdom, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @unity in diversity

ABU0301

Words spoken on 1915-09-13 in Haifa

730

Persian

این محاربات که حضرات می کنند مثل امواج است. مثلاً موجی میرود روی موج دیگر، ولی عاقبت همهٴ این امواج ها

These conflicts that people wage are like unto waves. Lo, one wave mounteth upon another, yet ultimately all these waves [3.5s]

NJB_v11#05 p.096 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_5] NJB_v14#07 p.223 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_7] ZSM.1915-09-13 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge, @material and spiritual existence; two books

ABU0305

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-22

730

This is childish play. They did these things so that the English would not evacuate.... On the way to Akka the rest of us went ashore at Alexandria

PN_1919 p029 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=29] PN_1919 p155 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=155] LAT.097-101 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@superiority; incomparability of the Word of God, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0304

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-24

730

It affects the hearts. Conquering is not impressive. Humility makes impression. See what a conqueror David was. He conquered countries

PN_1919 p181 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=181] LAT.125-129 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @martyrs and martyrdom, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @non-participation in politics

ABU0303

Words to Mrs Moore, spoken on 1913-05-18

730

The will-power exists both in animal and man. The animals enjoy only a physical will-power which is limited in the sphere of its activity... We develop our will-power through 'divine unrest' which causes us to long for the better and nobler ideals of life.

DAS.1913-05-18

@power of the mind over nature, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence, @human reality created in the image of God, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @man's distinction from the animal, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @free will and predestination; fate

AB00270

720

mixed

لک الحمد یا الهی بما شغفت الاحباء حبا بجمالک و تجلیت علی الاصفیاء فی یوم

All praise be unto Thee, O my God, for having enraptured Thy loved ones with a love for Thy beauty, and for having manifested Thyself unto the pure-hearted in this Day [3.5s]

INBA87:445 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=447] INBA52:460 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=462]

@praise and encouragement, @unity; oneness of humanity, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

AB00269

720

mixed

دوست محترم من نامه شما رسید از آن روابط روحانی که منبعث از جان و وجدان بود

O esteemed friend! Your letter was received, and from those spiritual bonds which sprang from the soul and conscience [3.5s]... ...During this journey it has become manifest and evident to me that the Western world has made extraordinary progress... In the world of nature the greatest dominant note is the struggle for existence--the result of which is the survival of the fittest...Praise be to God that the Sun of Reality has shone forth with the utmost brilliancy from the eastern horizon.... Spiritual education consists in the inculcation of the ideals of divine morality

MNMK#115 p.222 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-220.html] MJDF.080 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=80] KHF.054 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=57] KHAB.031? (040) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.030 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-32.html] NJB_v04#02 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2]

SW_v07#15 p.133-134x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v08#01 p.015x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_1] SW_v08#08 p.101-102x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8] SW_v11#01 p.010-011x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_1] BNE.156x [https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/publications-individual-authors/bahaullah-new-era/1#773046298]

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @oneness; unity of religion, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world

AB00271

720

mixed

یا سلیل الرجل الحبیب نامه شما در اسکندریه رسید مدتی بود خبری نبود لهذا ورود این نمیقه

O thou scion of a cherished friend! Thy letter was received in Alexandria. It was long since there had been any news, and so it brought gladness and joy

NURA#33 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#056 p.063 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-66.html] BSDR.511

LOTW#33 [http://www.bahai.org/r/103503616]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @chastisement and requital, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00264

720

Persian

ای یاران روحانی عبدالبهاء از بدایت طوفان در ایران در جمیع نامه ها بطهران

O spiritual friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! From the inception of the tempest in Persia, in all letters to Tihrán [3.5s]

MSHR5.016-018 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=12]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @unity; oneness of humanity, @non-participation in politics, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @universal peace; world unity

AB00263

720

Persian

ای کنیز عزیز الهی نامه ای که بتاریخ ششم اپریل ۱۹۰۶ مرقوم نموده بودی رسید از

O thou dear handmaid of God! Thy letter dated 6 April 1906 hath been received. Thou hast written that Mrs. ... hath regained her health.

ASAT2.179-180x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=91] MAS2.064-067 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-65.html]

BRL_ATE#036 [http://www.bahai.org/r/170105887] BLO_PT#153 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_tablet_wisdom_questions]

@Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @education of children; moral education, @the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]

AB00262

720

mixed

ای سلاله حضرت ابراهیم جلیل نامه شما رسید رویای شما بسیار مبارک بود زیرا آب

O descendant of His Holiness Abraham! Your letter was received. Your dream was most blessed, for water [3.5s]... ...As for the story of Adam, the Father of Mankind, which is recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, this requireth explanation

BLIB_Or.08687.007

MKT2.157 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-157.html] AVK2.146.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-147.html] AVK2.152.09x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-153.html] MAS2.041x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-42.html]

BRL_ATE#054x [http://www.bahai.org/r/485490616]

@intelligible vs. perceptible realities, @eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness, @God's attributes require the existence of objects, @God's knowledge, @interpretation of dreams and visions

AB00261

720

mixed

ای اسیر سبیل الهی تفاصیل واقعه مولمه و حوادث مزعجه یعنی فاجعه اردبیل و مشقت

O captive in the Divine Path! The details of the grievous occurrence and distressing events - namely, the tragedy of Ardabil and its hardships [3.5s]

INBA88:223 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=257]

ANDA#35 p.24 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-35] MSHR5.198x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=194] MSHR5.376x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=372] MUH1.0049 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=14]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @martyrs and martyrdom, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment

AB00260

720

mixed

اناجیک یا الهی مکبا بوجهی علی التراب منتظرا لبدایع الطافک متمرغا جبینی بالثری

I cry to Thee, 0, my Lord, while rolling myself on the dust and expecting the Wonders of Thy Bounties… If any soul asks concerning the station of this servant, the answer is Abdu'l-Baha

INBA16:060 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=62]

MMK5#185 p.146 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-149.html] AVK4.286x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-290.html]

SW_v08#14 p.186x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14] SW_v08#15 p.212x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_15] CUPAB.003 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_compilation_utterances_station]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love

AB00267

Christ and Baha’u’llah

720

Persian

بعضی از اشخاص ذکر نموده‌اند که هرچند آثار عظیمه از جمال مبارک ظاهر شده و اعمال غریبه صادر گشته

Some have asserted that, while mighty signs and marvellous deeds have appeared from Baha'u'llah, through which His greatness shines forth as resplendent as the sun

BRL_TTTP#12 [http://www.bahai.org/r/958287732]

BRL_TTT#12 [http://www.bahai.org/r/753521593]

@Christ; Christianity, @station of the Manifestation of God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @growth of the Cause

AB00265

Lawh-i-Khurasan

720

Arabic

ایا نفحات الله هبی معطره و ایا نسمه الله مری مطیبه و اقصدی وادی الرحمن نادی

O zephyr of God blow forth with fragrance! O breeze of God waft by sweetly scented! Hasten to the valley of the Merciful

INBA59:088 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=90] INBA88:029 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=63]

MKT1.141 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-140.html] MNMK#016 p.088 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-86.html] MILAN.156 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/156.jpg] HDQI.201 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/HI/hi-206.html] ANDA#07 p.04 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-7] OOL.C013 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw13-ar]

SW_v09#12 p.130-131+133 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_12]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @spiritual transformation, @praise and encouragement, @chastisement and requital, @consolation and comfort

ABU0308

Public address given on 1912-04-23

720

Persian

امروز من در نهایت سرورم زیرا می بینم بندگان الهی در این مجمع حاضرند سفید و سیاه

Today I am most happy, for I see here a gathering of the servants of God... ...In the estimation of God there is no distinction of color; all are one in the color

BRL_DAK#0712 [https://www.bahai.org/r/724920495] KHF.261 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=264] KHAB.247 (257) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB2.039 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-41.html] BDA1.047n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-47.html]

BWF.267-270 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] ADJ.037b-038x [http://www.bahai.org/r/906573525] ADJ.038x [http://www.bahai.org/r/906573525] PUP#018 (p.044-046) [http://www.bahai.org/r/819571283] FWU.034 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU] SW_v03#03 p.014-015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3]

MHMD1.055 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=80]

@race unity; racial issues, @unity in diversity, @love and unity, @justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice

AB00266

Some Answered Questions #036 The Five Divisions of Spirit

720

Persian

بدانکه کلیه ارواح پنج قسم است اول روح نباتی و آن قوه‌ئیست که از ترکیب عناصر

Know that in general there are five divisions of spirit. First is the vegetable spirit

MFD#36 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-104.html] DWNP_v2#01 p.001-003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-2-burma-1924] OOL.C022.36 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-01-fa]

SAQ#36 [http://www.bahai.org/r/394598598]

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @power of the mind over nature, @The Holy Spirit, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @spiritual springtime

AB00268

Some Answered Questions #060 The Immortality of the Spirit (1)

720

Persian

پس اثبات روح شد که روح انسانی موجود است حال باید اثبات بقای روح را کرد

Having established the existence of the human spirit, we must now establish its immortality.

MFD#60 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-160.html] BSHN.140.515x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-522.html] BSHN.144.503x MHT1a.146x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=147] MHT1b.104x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=104] OOL.C022.60 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-15-fa]

SAQ#60 [http://www.bahai.org/r/774762537] BWF.323-326 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @soul; spirit after death, @spiritual transformation, @recompense; reward for belief; right action

ABU0314

Words spoken at Haifa pilgrim house, 1920-10-27

720

Yes, I eat it in order that I may be your partner. In the same way, in the world of the Kingdom

PN_1920_heh_haifa p059 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh_haifa.pdf#page=59]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @law of obligatory prayer, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @Manifestation of God as educator

ABU0311

Words spoken ca. 1904

720

Persian

یک نفر طلبه علم قیافه از وطن خود هجرت نموده مدت شش سال در مصر اقامت کرد و علم قیافه

From the actions, facial features and general disposition of this doctor... There was once a young mulla who wished to become specialized in the evaluation of human character through the study of physiognomy.

KNSA.199-200 (366-368) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/329.pdf#page=203]

MNYA.276-279 [https://bahai-library.com/afroukhteh_nine_years_akka] STAB#027 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=27]

@stories; anecdotes

ABU0313

Words spoken in 1900

720

The mystery of sacrifice: There are many meanings for these words. Every one of the friends of God has two stations; one of the station of mankind and the other of spirituality.

PN_1900 p002 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=2] PN_1900 p057 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=57] PN_unsorted p143 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=143]

@sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @spiritual transformation, @station of the Manifestation of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @suffering and imprisonment, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU0315

Words to a reporter from the Montreal Star on 10 Sep 1912

720

As to the question of disarmament, all nations must disarm at the same time... The one man slapped another on the face.... All Europe is an armed camp... It will be established in this century...

ABIC.034-035

@humor; jokes, @war and peace, @predictions and prophecies, @means of establishment of future civilization, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @universal peace; world unity

ABU0309

Words to Baha'is of Paris, 1911-10-14

720

mixed

این دفعه دوم است که در مجمع احبای پاریس آمدیم الحمد لله می بینم رویهای احبای

This is the second time that we have come into the gathering of the beloved friends in Paris. Praise be to God, I behold the faces of the loved ones [3.5s]... ...The day is approaching when ye shall witness how, through the splendor of the Faith of Baha'u'llah the West will have replaced the East

KHAB.076 (086) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.046 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-48.html] NJB_v02#14-16 p.016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14]

COF.030bx2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/963818271] GPB.253x [http://www.bahai.org/r/428631561] GPB.253-254x [http://www.bahai.org/r/428631561] GPB.396x [http://www.bahai.org/r/400059869] TDH#158.5x [http://www.bahai.org/r/755603488]

@stories; anecdotes, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness, @spiritual transformation, @East and West; communication between East and West, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @growth of the Cause

ABU0312

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-01-08

720

In the year 622 A.D. Mohamad, after several years of preaching and teaching his Islamic doctrines in his own native city

DAS.1915-01-08

@episodes from the early history of Islam, @rejection of Muhammad, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam, @unity in diversity, @Muhammad; Islam, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih

AB12111

710

mixed

اللهم یا الهی و عفوی و غفوری و رب حنونی و ملیک روفی و صون حمایتی و کهف کلاتی

O my God, my Lord and my Forgiver, my All-Pardoning Lord, my Compassionate Master, my Kind Sovereign, my Protecting Shield and my Sheltering Refuge! [3.5s]

AMIN.163-167 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @justice and wrath of God, @prayer for the departed, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00272

710

Arabic

اللهم یا الهی و ربی و منائی و نوری و بهائی و ملجای و رجائی قد تحیرت من ذکرک

O my God, my Lord, my Desire, my Light, my Glory, my Refuge, my Hope, bewildered am I by Thy mention! [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0555 [https://www.bahai.org/r/435163354] MKT2.297 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-297.html] TABN.063 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=63] MJMJ2.084 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-85.html] MMG2#454 p.501 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-504.html] MSBH5.465-469 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_5]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @praise and encouragement, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00273

710

Persian

امه الله مس بارنی سوال از حکمت دفن اموات در تراب نموده بود و نیز گفته بود که

The handmaid of God, Miss Barney, had asked a question as to the wisdom of burying the dead in the earth.

BRL_DAK#0387 [http://www.bahai.org/r/625674698]

BRL_ATE#142 [http://www.bahai.org/r/351109875] SUR.174-176 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf#page=181] BSTW#000x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=0]

@law of burial and cremation, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @progress only takes place within its own degree

AB00274

710

Persian

ای دختر ملکوتی من در راه آهن رو بسانفرانسیسکو میرویم بیاد خوی تو افتادم

O My heavenly daughter! While journeying by rail to San Francisco, thoughts of you came to my mind [3.5s]... ...The question of economics must commence with the farmer and then be extended to the other classes

BRL_DAK#0217 [http://www.bahai.org/r/956306948] AVK4.347x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-351.html] AVK4.348x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-352.html] MAS2.061-064x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-62.html] KHF.219 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=222] KHAB.041 (049) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.084 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-86.html] BDA1.189.15 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-189.html]

BRL_ATE#048x [http://www.bahai.org/r/956392761] BRL_SOCIAL#211 [http://www.bahai.org/r/576249054] LOG#1858x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1858] LOG#1859x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1859] BSC.453 #831x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v07#15 p.146-147x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_15] SW_v19#11 p.346-347x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_11] MHMD1.206-208 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=231]

@the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @wealth inequality and its moderation, @maintainance of degrees in society, @praise and encouragement, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @disregarding own capacity in teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00275

710

mixed

ای سلیل دخیل جلیل نامه ات ملاحظه گردید معانیش فرح و مسرت بخشید زیرا ذکر یاران

O scion of a noble lineage! Thy letter was perused, and its contents brought joy and gladness, for it made mention of the friends [3.5s]

INBA59:294b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=296] INBA88:281 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=315] INBA89:003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=6]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00276

710

Persian

ای مفتون حقیقت و منجذب ملکوت الله نامه مفصل رسید و از تلاوتش نهایت سرور حاصل

O thou who art captivated by the truth and magnetized by the Heavenly Kingdom! Thy long letter hath come and it brought great joy

MKT3.249 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-249.html] MNMK#151 p.281 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-279.html] MMK1#029 p.055 [https://www.bahai.org/r/881319124] YMM.384x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=392] YMM.419x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=427]

SWAB#029 [http://www.bahai.org/r/605520561] TAB.536-540 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA536] BWF.380-381x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] BSC.435 #791 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @language and the structure of reality, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Manifestation of God as divine physician, @spiritual transformation

AB00277

710

Arabic

ایها الفرع النابت الممدود من الدوح المقدس المحمود الشجره المبارکه الثابته

O branch extended from the sacred and praiseworthy Tree, thou who art the blessed and firmly-rooted offshoot [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0579 [https://www.bahai.org/r/275988383] KHAF.122 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=122]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @praise and encouragement, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Shrines and Holy places, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB00279

710

Persian

دوست عزیز محترما نامه شما رسید و مضمون سبب سرور وجدان گردید زیرا دلالت میکرد

My honorable and dear friend: Your kind letter was received and its contents became the means of happiness

MNMK#116 p.224 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-222.html] PYM.164x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-164.html] MJDF.063 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/594.pdf#page=63] NJB_v04#16 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_16]

DAS.1913-07-08x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_02.pdf#page=18] BSC.439 #797x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSC.448 #817x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] ABIE.019 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] ABIE.037 [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABE/ABE.htm] ADP.159-164 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA159] CHU.111-112x [https://archive.org/stream/compilationofhol00bahrich#page/111/mode/2up] BLO_PN#007 [https://bahai-library.com/sohrab_abdul-baha_egypt]

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @oneness; unity of religion, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social)

AB11627

710

mixed

یا بادع الاکوان و بارع الانسان و ذارء الامکان انت المنان انت الرحمن

O Creator of all existence, Fashioner of humanity, and Originator of all contingent beings! Thou art the All-Bountiful, Thou art the All-Merciful [3.5s]... ...one must teach with the utmost wisdom. Should one succeed in illumining a soul through the light of guidance, one should as far as possible conceal his identity

BRL_DAK#0407 [http://www.bahai.org/r/687347670] SFI18.018-021 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_18.pdf#page=18]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @methods of teaching the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0325

Interview with president of Alliance Spiritualiste, Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-26

710

You must sow the seed of love. They destroy, you construct. They take life, you confer life.

DAS.1913-02-26

@the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @love of God, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @the power of words; of speech

ABU0316

Public address given on 1912-08-05

710

The people of Christianity have clung to literal interpretation of the statement in the Gospel.... You have asked concerning approval of Christian Science treatment and healing. Spirit has influence

PUP#087 (p.245-247) [http://www.bahai.org/r/768273207] BSC.379 #710 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#18 p.004-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_18] SW_v08#04 p.045-046 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_4]

@outward and inward meanings, @wisdom [hikmat], @symbolism, @power of prayer, @literal interpretation, @suffering; rejection of Christ

AB00278

Some Answered Questions #046 Transformation of Species

710

Persian

آمدیم بر سر مسئلهء تغییر نوع و ترقی اعضا یعنی انسان از عالم حیوان آمده

We now come to the question of the transformation of species and the evolution of organs

MFD#46 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-127.html] OOL.C022.46 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-01-fa]

SAQ#46 [http://www.bahai.org/r/139689663] BWF.301-303 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

R. Peterson [track 10] [https://9starmedia.com/rose-marie-peterson-wave]

@interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @perfection; imperfection of nature, @evolution; human evolution

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

ABU0318

Words spoken on 1911-10-24 in Paris

710

Persian

در عالم مادیات هر چند محبت موجود ولی محدود است در عالم جسمانی وسائط و روابط

In the realm of materiality, though love existeth, yet it is limited; in the physical world are there means and bonds [3.5s]

AMK.228-231 KHAB.094 (104) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.072 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-74.html] KHTP.051

@power of the mind over nature, @The Holy Spirit, @love and unity, @unity in diversity, @transcending the material condition, @disregarding individual capacity; weakness

ABU0327

Words spoken on 1912-10-21 in San Francisco

710

His Holiness the Báb -- may my spirit be a sacrifice to him! - appeared in Shiraz. Soon after his declaration he wrote his first book

ECN.186 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=186]

@banishments of Baha'u'llah, @prophecy and fulfillment, @symbolism, @He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah, @martyrdom of the Bab

ABU0326

Words to Anna Kunz, spoken on 1921-03-28

710

They have bright faces... Science does not know; but the Manifestation makes discoveries... There will always be some. Only a special number will have this attainment.... Everything must be done moderately.

SW_v13#06 p.142-144 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_6] VLAB.028x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf] VLAB.099x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/VLAB.pdf]

@rational arguments, @love and unity, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @special knowledge of the Manifestation of God, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @educational curricula, @soul; spirit after death

ABU0322

Words to Ethel Rosenberg and Laura Clifford Barney, spoken on 1904-05-23

710

Abdu'l-Bahá said we should speak in the language of heaven -- for there is a language of the spirit… When we pray to God a feeling fills our hearts

COC#1754x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_prayer_meditation_devotion#1754] SW_v08#04 p.042x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_4] PN_1900 p036 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=36] BNE.089x [https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/publications-individual-authors/bahaullah-new-era/1#773046298]

@human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @language and the structure of reality, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @divine attributes are within all things; every atom, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0321

Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905

710

Do everything in your power to help the poor and needy. Serve God in this way... Souls differ in their capacity to receive and manifest the Light of the Spirit.

TDLA.041-044 [https://archive.org/stream/tendaysinlighta00illgoog#page/n47/mode/2up] BLO_PN#104 [https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @differences in human capacity, @war and peace, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual transformation, @origin of the soul; the soul as emanation, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick

ABU0323

Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902

710

There is reincarnation of matter, and there is reincarnation of spirit. Reincarnation of matter is the process whereby matter is developed or evolved... When the body of man is perfected, physical evolution comes to an end

BSC.434 #789x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] AELT.178-183 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=225]

ABU0317

Words to Shaykh Salman, spoken on 1915-04-12

710

Persian

چه لزوم کرده اخبار دروغ انتشار بدهند اگر خبری ندارند اصلا ننویسند حالا که دروغ میگویند

Why do they feel compelled to spread false rumors?... It is said that Nadir Shah once advanced a claim to Baghdad... His Holiness (Imam ‘Alí) was surrounded by enemies and wished to take refuge elsewhere. He said to one of His companions (Salman, the Persian), “Place me in this basket

KHH1.212-215 (1.298-301) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=243]

KHHE.312-313 [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] STAB#011 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=11] STAB#012 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=12]

@honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @recompense; reward for belief; right action, @stories; anecdotes, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past

ABU0324

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-23

710

The law of Jihad has ever been a veritable firebrand with which the Ulamas of Islam have threatened the world from time to time. In former ages its moral influence

DAS.1914-11-23

@holy war [jihad]; violence in the name of God, @idle fancies; lust and passion, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ABU0319

Words to various people, spoken on 1912-11-01

710

Persian

من ابداً بنیهٴ سفر نداشتم ولی تأیید جمال مبارک مدد نمود هر امری بتأیید از پیش میرود اگر تأیید نباشد هیچ نمیشود

My health was absolutely not up to traveling but the assistance of the Blessed Beauty helped me. All affairs advance with His aid. Without His aid, all would come to naught.... Baha'u'llah has delivered us from all prejudices... If the socialists succeed they would seize the world's wealth and then divide it... I have said in America and Europe that there is only the question of votes in which women have been held back

BDA1.345.02 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-345.html]

MHMD1.363-365 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=388]

@marriage as means of spiritual progress, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @equality of men and women, @war and peace, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

AB12112

700

mixed

ای آواره عبدالبهاء بعضی از مکاتیب شما رسید و جواب مرقوم گردید عجیب است

O wandering servant of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Some of thy letters were received and answers were penned. Strange indeed [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0784 [https://www.bahai.org/r/446716959]

@prayer for teaching, @review of publications, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @growth of the Cause, @regarding the receptivity of the hearer in teaching the Cause

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

AB00286

700

Persian

ای محزون دلخون از حوادث وارده و اخبار نازله جمیع اهل سرادق عزت در دریای احزان

O thou grief-stricken and sorrow-laden one! The calamities that have befallen, and the woeful tidings that have come to pass, have plunged all the dwellers of the pavilion of glory into an ocean of grief [3.5s]

INBA55:349 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=351]

ANDA#72 p.41 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-72] MUH1.0128 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/284.pdf#page=22]

@stories; anecdotes, @soul; spirit after death, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @acquiescence and resignation; contentment

AB00288

700

Persian

ای منادی میثاق مکتوبی که بجناب منشادی مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید در خصوص

O thou herald of the Covenant! The letter that thou didst address to Jinab-i-Manshadi hath been perused. Regarding [3.5s]

INBA85:388 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=390]

BRL_DAK#0150 [http://www.bahai.org/r/615464079] ASAT2.190-191x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/428.pdf#page=97] AVK3.277.16x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-281.html] AVK3.344.18 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-348.html] TRZ1.333 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/72.pdf#page=1] MAS5.220-221x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-220.html] YIA.323-325 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=319] YIK.397-399 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=406]

@serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @chastisement and requital, @non-participation in politics, @obedience to and respect for government authority

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

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

AB00283

700

mixed

ای ثابت نابت بر پیمان آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید در خصوص زعیم الدوله ملاحظه گردید

O thou who art firm and steadfast in the Covenant! That which thou didst write concerning Za'imu'd-Dawlih hath been noted [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0523 [https://www.bahai.org/r/787348161] MMK6#130 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=98]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @personal instructions, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB00280

700

mixed

الهی الهی انت الذی سبقت رحمتک و سبغت نعمتک و ثبتت حجتک و علت کلمتک و اشتهرت

O my God, my God! Thou art He Whose mercy hath preceded all things, Whose grace hath abundantly flowed, Whose proof hath been firmly established, Whose Word hath been exalted, and Whose fame hath spread abroad [3.5s]

INBA88:157 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=191]

AYBY.357 #039 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-366.html] KHSH09.022x [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_9] NFQ.014x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/nfq.pdf#page=8]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual transformation, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience

AB00282

700

mixed

ای بنده درگاه الهی آنچه از خامه محبت الله جاری قرائت گردید و از مضامینش

O thou servant of the Holy Threshold! We have read what flowed out from thy pen in thy love for God, and found the contents of thy letter

INBA21:100 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=51] INBA88:056b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=90]

MKT1.248 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-247.html] MNMK#155 p.288 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-286.html] MMK1#156 p.178 [https://www.bahai.org/r/584051051] MILAN.103 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/103.jpg] BSHN.140.120 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-127.html] BSHN.140.492 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-499.html] BSHN.144.120 MHT1a.079 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=80] MHT1b.037 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=37] MHT2.166 YMM.231 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=239]

SWAB#156 [http://www.bahai.org/r/328923853] TAB.642-645 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA642] BWF.391-393x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] COC#1750 [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_prayer_meditation_devotion#1750] PN_1900_heh p035 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=35]

@reincarnation, @soul; spirit after death, @return of the Manifestations of God, @proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @attaining the life of the spirit, @soul is the essential reality of man, @progress only takes place within its own degree

AB00281

700

Arabic

الهی و محبوبی تری عبادک المهاجرین حاضرین فی محفل التبتل الیک و ارقائک المجاورین

O my God and my Beloved! Thou seest Thy servants, thy wanderers, present in the court of devotion unto Thee, and Thy bondsmen dwelling nigh [3.5s]

INBA21:078 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=40] INBA55:383 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=385]

@servitude; submission to God; repentance, @martyrs and martyrdom, @eulogies; reminiscences, @prayer for the departed, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB00284

700

mixed

ای سرگشته دشت و صحرا محبه الله اگر تبریز تبخیز بود و اردبیل از باده بلایا و محن جامی

O wayfarer in the desert and wilderness of the love of God! Should Tabriz be in tumult and Ardibíl partake of the wine of tribulations and woes [3.5s]

INBA88:081 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=115]

BRL_DAK#0760 [https://www.bahai.org/r/471772329] MKT2.223 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-223.html] MSHR2.032x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-34.html] MSBH6.473-476 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_6] YIA.382-383x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=378] QUM.045-046x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tarikh-i-amr-i-bahai_dar_shahr-i-qum_vol1.pdf]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU0336

Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-11-07

700

Consider events in the Balkans today where a great conflagration of war is furiously raging

PUP#119 (p.397-399) [http://www.bahai.org/r/663185542] SW_v06#02 p.017-018 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_2]

@predictions and prophecies, @unity; oneness of humanity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @war and peace, @martyrdom of the Bab

ABU0333

Words spoken ca. 1900

700

It is recorded in the Book of Genesis - "let us create man after our own image"

PN_1900_heh p051 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=51] PN_1900 p097 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=97]

@Moses, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Christ; Christianity, @Muhammad; Islam, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @Manifestation of God as sun

ABU0334

Words spoken in Dec. 1900

700

Existence contains two worlds, one of matter and the other of spirit. There are two stations for man

PN_1900_heh p016 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=16] PN_1900 p088 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=88]

@Manifestation of God as sun, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @miracles and their interpretation, @Seal of the Prophets, @proofs of the Manifestations of God

ABU0335

Words spoken in Dec. 1912 in London

700

God, the Almighty, is the Creator. His Highness, the Divine God, has certain attributes. In thinking of God, one presupposes certain virtues

SFQ.228-231 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_sufi_quarterly_talks]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @God's attributes require the existence of objects, @literal interpretation, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0330

Words spoken on 1914-01-25

700

In all our affairs we must use common sense. God has bestowed upon all of us reason, that we might use it in our daily work and not hide it in the drawer.

DAS.1914-01-25 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=21]

@status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @conduct in finance and business, @stories; anecdotes, @wisdom [hikmat], @spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman], @acquiescence and resignation; contentment

ABU0332

Words spoken on 1914-03-16 in Haifa

700

Having already made firm and steadfast the shaking and doubtful apostles Mary Magdalene started on her famous journey toward Rome

DAS.1914-03-16 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=55]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation, @Christ; Christianity, @love and unity, @stories; anecdotes, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0328

Words spoken on 1915-09-10

700

Persian

امسال سال امتحان و افتتان است از هر جهت در قرآن میفرماید

This year is the year of tests and trials from every direction, as He hath revealed in the Qur'an [3.5s]

NJB_v15#10 p.312 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_10]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @oneness; unity of religion, @hypocrisy

ABU3646

Words spoken on 1919-12-15

700

Persian

اغنیا باید به فقرا کمک کنند در آمریکا شخصی بود قریب سیصد ملیون لیره ثروت داشت

The rich must aid the poor. There was a person in America who was worth about three hundred million liras. Nevertheless, he was unwilling to spend even one lira on the poor; and all his life, he had not experienced comfort

ISA.006-008 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/G-L/G/guftar/isa006.jpg]

ISAE.1919-12-15 [http://bahai-library.com/isfahani_rabbani_with_abdul-baha]

@stories; anecdotes, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty

ABU0331

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-06-27

700

Whenever during His lifetime the Blessed Perfection desired to signalize anyone with His special favor, He encouraged him to go forth and teach the Cause of God.

DAS.1914-06-27 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=135] SW_v13#07 p.185-186x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_7]

@autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @high station of teachers of the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0337

Words to Seattle and Portland friends, spoken on 1912-10-16

700

Welcome, very welcome. I have longed to see you very much…. It often happened in the old days that they were killed on the way…. Once upon a time in the city of Aleppo they captured two people who were on their way to the Land of Desire (Akka).

ECN.517+734+743 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=517]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @call to action, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @suffering and imprisonment, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0329

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-09

700

Persian

این مردم بیچاره کشته میشوند و نمیدانند برای چه جانهای خود را فدای خاک میکنند خاک که انزل موجودات است

These wretched soldiers die for the sake of some earth, which is the lowest form of creation, and do not know why they are slain. Consider how some are refined and how some abase themselves.

KHH1.295-296 (1.410-414) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=326]

KHHE.425-427 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-04-09 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=78] BSR_v13 p.098 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan]

@consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation

AB00295

690

mixed

ای یاران عزیز عبدالبهاء نامه ای بشیراز مرقوم گردید سوادش در جوف است ملاحظه

O dearly beloved companions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! A letter hath been written to Shíráz, and a copy is enclosed herein for perusal [3.5s]

MKT4.136 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-136.html] MILAN.233 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/233.jpg]

@non-participation in politics, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @obedience to and respect for government authority

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

AB00299

690

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی و سیدی و مولائی ترانی موردا لکل بلاء و هدفا لکل سهام

Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God, my Master, and my Ruler! Thou seest me a victim of every tribulation, a target for every shaft, and exposed to every spear

NURA#45 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK2#038 p.027x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-29.html] MMK4#032 p.030 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-33.html]

LOTW#45 [http://www.bahai.org/r/296229282]

@heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @suffering and imprisonment

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

AB00297

690

mixed

حمدا لمن خلق الارض و السموات و جعلها منشور ایاته البینات و انشا الشموس

Praise be unto Him Who hath created the earth and the heavens, and hath made them the open book of His clear signs, and hath brought forth the suns [3.5s]

TAH.326b [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=330]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance, @praise and encouragement, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @Manifestation of God as sun

AB00296

690

mixed

ایها الفرع النابت من الشجره المبارکه نامه نامی بلکه رشته درر و لئالی واصل

O branch that hath sprung from the Blessed Tree! Thy glorious letter—nay rather, thy string of pearls and gems—hath reached me [3.5s]... ...May my life be offered up for the dust of these martyrs; may my entire being be a sacrifice for the blood of the chosen ones of God

NANU_AB#72 [https://www.bahai.org/r/604856218] YBN.063-065 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=68]

BRL_FIRE_AB#20x [http://www.bahai.org/r/554492002]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @consultation, @martyrs and martyrdom, @unity; oneness of humanity, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @education of children; moral education

AB00294

690

mixed

ای یاران رحمانی این زندانی جناب آقا محمد صادق علیه بهاء الله الابهی بارض مقدس

O divine friends! This prisoner hath received Jinab-i-Aqa Muhammad-Sadiq - upon him be the Glory of God, the Most Glorious - in the Holy Land [3.5s]... ...Praised be God, for the friends of Fars are as knights in the arena of knowledge and guardians of the impregnable stronghold of God

INBA87:009 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=11] INBA52:009 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=11]

MKT1.300 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-299.html] PYM.116x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-116.html] MJMJ2.079x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-80.html] MMG2#079 p.086x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-89.html]

ADMS#065i21x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/passages-on-iran/]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others

AB00293

690

mixed

ای متضرع الی الله نفوسیکه در تحت میثاق نیر اعظم آفاق داخل و بعروه الوثقای عهد

O thou who art supplicating unto God! Those souls who have entered beneath the Covenant of the Most Great Luminary of the horizons and laid hold of the sure handle of His Testament [3.5s]

INBA13:215 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=108] INBA55:307 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=309] INBA88:384x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=418]

BRL_DAK#0551 [https://www.bahai.org/r/705212958]

@obedience to and respect for government authority, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @status of kings; future of monarchy, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @prayer for governments and rulers, @firmness in the Covenant

AB00292

690

mixed

ای ثابت راسخ بر عهد و پیمان الهی مسطورات آنجناب واصل و مضامین معلوم و واضح

O thou who art firm and steadfast in the divine Covenant! Thy letter hath been received and its contents are manifest and clear [3.5s]

INBA55:268 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=270]

AKHA_105BE #12 p.08 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @Muhammad; Islam, @firmness in the Covenant, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past

AB00291

690

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه رسید و عدل و انصاف آن سرور واضح گردید احبای الهی باید

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received, and the justice and fairness of that joy-giving one became evident. The loved ones of God must [3.5s]

AVK1.011.11x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-36.html] AVK4.095.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-99.html] MAS2.096-098 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-97.html]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @review of publications, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

AB00290

690

mixed

ای ادیب دبستان الهی مکاتیب متعدده آنحضرت ملاحظه گردید و مضامین سبب حیرت شد که

O learned one of the divine school! Thy numerous letters were perused, and their contents became a cause of astonishment, in that [3.5s]

INBA21:081 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=41] INBA21:132 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=67] INBA88:068 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=102]

@contention and conflict, @unity; oneness of humanity, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB00838

690

mixed

شما بايد هوشيار باشيد و نفوس را از نفثات خفيّه و همسات سرّيّه محافظه نمائيد و ثابت بر ميثاق به نصّ صريح الهی

O friend! It is a long time since any news hath been received from thee. Although, earlier, a letter arrived in which thou hadst asked a question

NURA#64 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#159 p.173x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-176.html] MMK5#099 p.081x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-84.html]

LOTW#64 [http://www.bahai.org/r/105500030]

@Christ; Christianity, @symbolism, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @firmness in the Covenant, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB11808

690

O God! O Thou Guide of seekers unto the Path of Guidance; Thou Deliverer of bewildered ones from the desert of error and blindness

TCI#4 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_tablets_containing_instructions]

@loving community spirit in teaching the Cause, @exhortations and counsels, @praise and encouragement, @light and darkness, @non-participation in politics, @spiritual transformation

AB02359

690

mixed

از آيهء ‌مبارکهء قرآن ‌آتيناک سبعاً من المثانی سؤال نموده ‌بودی ، سبعاً من المثانی را علمای رسوم حواميم سبع

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! That which was written by thy musk-laden pen brought great joy to our hearts

NURA#68 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#170 p.193x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-196.html] MMK5#306 p.223x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-226.html] MAS2.074-075x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-75.html]

LOTW#68 [http://www.bahai.org/r/114264723]

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0342

Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-04-23

690

Today I have been speaking from dawn until now, yet because of love, fellowship and desire to be with you

BDA1.046n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-46.html]

PUP#019 (p.046-048) [http://www.bahai.org/r/702544074] SW_v03#03 p.015-016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3] SW_v08#02 p.026 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_2] SW_v08#18 p.243 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18]

MHMD1.055 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=80]

@soul; spirit after death, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @prayer for the departed, @wisdom [hikmat]

ABU0341

Words spoken at Dodge home in New York, 1912-04-16

690

In those places where they have no Mashrak-el-Azkar they rent a house and call it by that name

SW_v03#10 p.007-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @differences in human capacity, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @unity; oneness of humanity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion

ABU0339

Words spoken on 1913-11-23 in Ramleh

690

We had a great teacher in this Cause by the name of ---. He lived a long life, and up to his last breath he served the Cause most faithfully.

DAS.1913-11-23 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=21]

@humor; jokes, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @stories; anecdotes, @eulogies; reminiscences, @moderation; frugality; simplicity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0340

Words to McNutt, Getsinger and others

690

Muhammad Ali had a great opportunity given him, but through his ambitions he became false and lost it... Let us analyze this paragraph in the Kitab-i-Ahd.... Muhammad Ali has taken the Tablet and separated the pages... and then gilded the pages so as to make the trick invisible

BSTW#087 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=94]

@corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @station of the Manifestation of God, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

ABU0343

Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902

690

God is Love and Peace. God is Truth. God is Omniscience. God is without beginning and without end.

BSC.300 #609 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] AELT.153-157 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=200]

@human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within, @reincarnation, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @the human soul, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @evolution; human evolution, @human reality created in the image of God

ABU0344

Words to some of the friends, spoken on 1912-05-01

690

The colored meeting was very good. The speech was well done and they understood it well.

PN_1912 p073 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1912.pdf#page=73] BSTW#157 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=13]

@race unity; racial issues, @stories; anecdotes

AB02974

680

mixed

ای منادی پیمان نامه رسید و مضمون مفهوم گردید چون فرصت بهیچوجه نیست جواب مطالب

O Herald of the Covenant! Your letter was received and its contents were understood. As there is absolutely no time to spare, the reply to the questions [3.5s]... ...You have written on the question of how the friends should proceed in their business dealings with one another

BRL_DAK#0147 [http://www.bahai.org/r/353150776] COMP_TRUSTP#48x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/trustworthiness_compilation_originals.pdf] AVK3.159.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-163.html] ANDA#73 p.46x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-73] YIA.272-274 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=268]

BRL_TRUST#47x [http://www.bahai.org/r/061587563] COC#2059x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_trustworthiness#2059]

@status of kings; future of monarchy, @conduct in finance and business, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @non-participation in politics, @honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness, @martyrs and martyrdom

AB00305

680

Arabic

انّ الظّهورات فی الأدوار السّابقة کان لکلّ واحد منهم شأن فی الوجود و رتبة فی نشأة الأنسان

...Verily, each one of the Manifestations in former ages possessed a certain station in existence and a certain rank in human development [3.5s]... ...Were it not for tests genuine gold could not be distinguished from the counterfeit.... In cycles gone by, each one of the Manifestations of God hath had His own rank in the world of existence... Intellect and the faculty of comprehension are God's gifts

MNMK#063 p.142x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-140.html] MMK1#027 p.054x [https://www.bahai.org/r/696257448]

SWAB#027x [http://www.bahai.org/r/359912913] COC#1790x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_prohibition_drinking_alcohol#1790] SW_v08#19 p.238-239x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_19] SW_v14#02 p.041-042x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] SW_v14#12 p.353x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_12] BSTW#438 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_401-450.pdf#page=38]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @station of the Manifestation of God, @role and station of women, @mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit, @Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00308

680

O thou daughter of the Kingdom! Thy letter was received and its contents became evident... O thou daughter of the Kingdom! The Lord of the Kingdom and the sun of Truth hath sent forth a splendor

SW_v08#10 p.123x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_10] BSTW#479 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_451-485.pdf#page=64]

@the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @importance of prayer, @love and unity

AB00307

680

mixed

یا اسم الله الیوم میزان کل شیء و مقناطیس تایید عهد و میثاق رب مجید است کل را

O Name of God! In this Day the criterion and balance of all things and the magnet for attracting divine confirmations is the Covenant and Testament

INBA55:444 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=446] INBA59:235 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=237]

MKT2.126 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-126.html] MILAN.179 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/179.jpg] AKHA_121BE #10 p.h [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] DUR1.416 MAS5.098 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-98.html] YHA1.097-098x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=99] YHA1.115x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=117] YHA1.430x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=432]

BLO_PT#182x [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_lawh_jamal_burujirdi]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @firmness in the Covenant, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

AB00306

680

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy numerous and successive

SW_v10#06 p.107-108 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_6] BSTW#264 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=25] BSTW#265 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=27]

@review of publications, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @race unity; racial issues, @power of love, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @contention and conflict, @naming of children; of individuals, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00304

680

Persian

ای جویای حقیقت نامه رسید و مقصد معلوم گردید سوال نموده بودید که اگر این جلوه

O thou seeker after Truth! Thy letter was received and thy purpose became known. Thou hast asked: If this divine Revelation is that same heavenly Kingdom which Christ said was nigh

NURA#67 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MKT3.246 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-246.html] AKHA_124BE #08 p.v [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] DWNP_v1#08 p.006-008 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-1-burma-1923]

LOTW#67 [http://www.bahai.org/r/066915708]

@power of the Manifestation of God, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @return of Christ; second coming of Christ

AB00303

680

mixed

ای ثابتان بر پیمان الیوم این عنوان از ابدع الحان زیرا قوت امر الله بعهد

O ye who are steadfast in the Covenant! Today, this title is the most wondrous of melodies, for the power of God's Cause lieth in the Covenant [3.5s]

MKT3.347b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-347.html]

@growth of the Cause, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @firmness in the Covenant

AB00302

680

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان ورق مسطور ملحوظ شد و معانی موفور مفهوم الحمد لله در این سفر

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was perused and its abundant meanings were understood. Praise be unto God that in this journey [3.5s]

INBA88:362 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=396]

BRL_DAK#0368 [http://www.bahai.org/r/626299664] MSBH4.488x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=242]

@Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @prayer for service, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @banishments of Baha'u'llah

AB00301

680

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان تحریرت واصل و تقریر در نهایت حلاوت از عنایت جمال قدم ملتمسم که

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received, and its words were of surpassing sweetness. I beseech the Ancient Beauty that [3.5s]

INBA88:354 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=388]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @firmness in the Covenant

ABU0346

Address to the Baha'is at Breed home in Cambridge, 1912-05-23

680

mixed

ای احبای الهی امروز من بدارالفنون کلارک رفتم در شهر ووستر در آنجا خیلی جمعیت

Scientific knowledge is the highest attainment upon the human plane, for science is the discoverer… This is 23 May, the anniversary of the message and Declaration of the Bab

BRL_DAK#0954 [https://www.bahai.org/r/495604299] AYT.117x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-117.html] KHTB2.083 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-85.html] NJB_v03#06-08 p.006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_6] NJB_v04#05 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_5] BDA1.103n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-103.html]

PUP#052 (p.138-139) [http://www.bahai.org/r/937672563]

MANA (1) [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/the-gate] MANA (2) [https://manapacifica.bandcamp.com/track/they-suffered]

MHMD1.110 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=135]

@Declaration; advent of the Bab, @divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @harmony of science and religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @martyrdom of the Bab, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab

ABU0347

Words spoken ca. 1915

680

Persian

پیر مردیست در نهایت روحانیت فی الحقیقه جمیع قوایش را در سبیل الهی صرف نموده چقدر خوبست

He [Haji Mirza Haydar 'Ali] is at an advanced age and with utmost spirituality. He has spent all his energy in the path of God. How blessed is he who devotes his life to the Cause

KHH1.285-287 (1.398-401) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=316]

KHHE.412-415 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf]

@suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @Imam Husayn, @martyrdom of the Bab, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0348

Words spoken on 1915-03-28

680

Persian

معرکه شده است دنیا بهم خورده است در کارند که همه بجان همدیگر بریزند

Tumult hath seized the earth, chaos reigneth, and all souls are moved to rise up one against another [3.5s]

KHF.071 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=74] KHAB.455 (456) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.040 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-42.html] NJB_v05#12 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_12]

@supreme tribunal, @war and peace, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion

ABU0345

Words spoken on 1916-03-09 in Haifa

680

Persian

امروز روز بسیار مبارکی است. متبرک و متمین است. طلوع انوار صبح هدی است. مبدأ و منشأ امر الهی است

This Day is a most blessed Day, sanctified and assured. It is the dawning of the effulgent rays of the Morn of Guidance. It is the Source and Fountainhead of God's Cause [3.5s]

PYB#210 p.16-17x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/210.PDF#page=16] ZSM.1916-03-09 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@the Bayan, its laws and their abrogation, @apocalyptic imagery, @events in the life and ministry of the Bab, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @prophecy and fulfillment

AB00315

670

Persian

ایتها النفوس المبارکه نامه شما بدقت تمام ملاحظه گردید از مساعی حمیده و همم

O blessed souls! Your letter was perused with the utmost care. From the praiseworthy endeavours [3.5s]

INBA16:130 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=132]

BRL_DAK#0344 [http://www.bahai.org/r/513456294] MMK2#230 p.164 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-166.html]

@spiritual assemblies; administrative matters, @Hands of the Cause, @methods of teaching the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @past, present and future of Iran

AB00319

670

Arabic

یا من انجذب بنفحات الله قد وردنی کتاب کریم یتضمن معنی بدیع ممن له فی العالم

O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of God! A noble letter hath reached me, containing wondrous meanings, from one who in this world [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0561 [https://www.bahai.org/r/349890246] MKT1.186 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-185.html] MNMK#018 p.093 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-91.html] AVK1.028.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-53.html]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @praise and encouragement

AB00318

670

Persian

دوست عزیز مهربانا نامه شما رسید و مضمون معلوم گردید هر چند با جناب میرزا

O kind and cherished friend! Thy letter was received and its contents were made known. Although with his honor Mirza [3.5s]... ...For seventy years these exiled ones have undergone these untold persecutions and sufferings for the progress of the world of humanity

BRL_DAK#0756 [https://www.bahai.org/r/652688697]

DAS.1913-11-06 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=94]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @newspapers and the media; publications, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00317

670

mixed

حمدا لمن استقر علی سریر وحدانیته و استمرت نسائم الانس من حدیقه رحمانیته و هاج

Praise be unto Him Who is established upon the throne of His oneness, and from Whose garden of divine mercy the gentle breezes of intimacy continuously waft [3.5s]

INBA89:225 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=228]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @love of God, @praise and encouragement

AB00314

670

mixed

ای یزدان مهربان از افق انقطاع نفوسی را مشرق و لائح فرمودی که مانند مه تابان

O Thou kind Lord! From the horizon of detachment Thou hast manifested souls that, even as the shining moon... You must so hoist the banner of nothingness

MMK2#378 p.269 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-271.html] NANU_AB#04x [https://www.bahai.org/r/923167850]

BRL_FIRE_AB#04x [http://www.bahai.org/r/538495402] BPRY.251-252x [http://www.bahai.org/r/029625170] PN_1906 p093x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=93]

Miles [https://youtu.be/GfGAZB1sS-s] Denzil & Ephrim [https://youtu.be/3mcYJMMtdqY]

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @importance of community building, @spiritual transformation, @unity; oneness of humanity, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00313

670

Persian

ای منادی پیمان نامه آنحضرت وصول یافت از جهتی مورث احزان شدید گردید و آن فریاد

O herald of the Covenant! The letter from his honor was received. From one aspect it brought exceeding sorrow and lamentation [3.5s]

AMK.107-110 PYK.262 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=279]

@permission for visit; pilgrimage, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @law of Huququ'llah, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @martyrs and martyrdom

AB00312

670

mixed

ای متمسک بذیل کبریاء نفحه که از حدیقه قلب آن موقن بالله برخواسته بود بمشام

O thou who hast clung to the hem of grandeur! The fragrance which arose from the garden of the heart of that steadfast believer in God hath reached Our presence [3.5s]

INBA55:200 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=202] INBA72:127 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=130]

MMK5#235 p.184 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-187.html]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @firmness in the Covenant

AB00311

670

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان آنچه از قبل و بعد مرقوم نموده بودید با وجود عدم مجال تمام

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! That which thou didst write, both before and after, despite lack of opportunity [3.5s]

MMK5#222 p.170 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-173.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @methods of teaching the Cause, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00310

670

O Almighty! Instruct Thou these thankful birds in the rose-garden of Guidance the tuneful melodies and the harmonious strains of the Psalms of David

DAS.1913-11-22x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=18]

@love of God, @spiritual transformation, @presence of; reunion with God, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @martyrs and martyrdom, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

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

ABU0350

Lecture Given at a Studio in Paris: Words to Baha'is of Paris, 1911-11-27

670

Persian

این منزل محفلی است بهائی محفل بهائی هر جا تاسیس شد روز بروز اتساع یافت و سبب

This is in truth a Baha'í house. Every time such a house or meeting place is founded it becomes one of the greatest aids to the general development

KHTB1.221 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-223.html]

PT#24 p.069 [http://www.bahai.org/r/231262138]

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00316

Some Answered Questions #054 The Procession of the Human Spirit from God

670

Persian

بدان که قیام بر دو قسم است قیام و تجلی صدوری و قیام و تجلی ظهوری

Know that procession is of two kinds: procession and appearance through emanation and procession and appearance through manifestation.

MFD#54 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-148.html] OOL.C022.54 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-09-fa]

SAQ#54 [http://www.bahai.org/r/666730614]

@transcendence; unknowability of God, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @The Holy Spirit, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @origin of the soul; the soul as emanation

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

ABU0352

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1915-06-20

670

Persian

جمال مبارک روحی لاحبائه الفداء دو سفر به بغداد و کربلا فرمودند. یک سفر بعد از شهادت حضرت اعلی

The Blessed Beauty - may my spirit be offered up for His loved ones - undertook two journeys to Baghdad and Karbila. One journey was after the martyrdom of the Exalted One [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-06-20 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@spiritual transformation, @martyrs and martyrdom, @early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0355

Words spoken on 1913-07-31 in Ramleh

670

These Arab Sheikhs do not understand what fair discussion means... This man [Rasheed Pasha] according to popular traditions must have been bad even before Adam and Eve.

DAS.1913-07-31 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_03.pdf#page=1] ABIE.132 [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]

@Ottoman commissions of investigation, @bribery and corruption, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ABU0353

Words spoken on 1915-10-02 in Haifa

670

Persian

حرب خیلی شدید شده است، چه از جهت شرق، چه از جهت غرب روسیه، چه از جهت عراق

The conflict hath grown exceedingly fierce, whether from the eastern regions, whether from the western parts of Russia, or whether from Iraq [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-10-02 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @methods of teaching the Cause, @war and peace, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration

ABU0351

Words spoken on 1916-04-29

670

Persian

این نهم عید رضوانست عید جمال قدم است عید طلوع شمس حقیقت است عید بسیار بزرگ

This is the ninth Ridván, the Festival of the Ancient Beauty, the Festival of the dawning of the Sun of Truth, the Most Great Festival [3.5s]

AHB.102BE #06 p.02-03 AYT.328-331 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-328.html]

@Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU0356

Words to Alma Albertson et al, spoken on 1900-11-26

670

Praise be to God! You have attained the visit of the Holy Tomb... The worldly grades of every Manifestation are so different

PN_1900 p020 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=20] BSTW#169c [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=34]

@the cross and the trinity, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @Manifestation of God does not act of own volition

ABU0349

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-25

670

In reality there has been and there will ever be only one religion and that is the religion of Truth, one faith and that is the faith of Love. All other things are non-essentials.

DAS.1915-03-25

@corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @spiritual transformation, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @universality of the Cause, @oneness; unity of religion

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

AB00330

660

Arabic

یا الهی کیف اذکرک و انطق بثنائک و اتفوه بنعوتک و محامدک و لم یکن ذکری و ثناای

O my God! How can I make mention of Thee, speak forth Thy praise, and give voice to Thy attributes and glorification, when my remembrance and praise [3.5s]

INBA85:513 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=515] INBA55:319 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=321]

MILAN.202 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/202.jpg]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

AB00327

660

mixed

لک الحمد یا الهی و لک الشکر یا محبوبی علی ما علت کلمتک و تمت نعمتک و سبقت

Praise be unto Thee, O my God, and thanksgiving be unto Thee, O my Beloved, for Thou hast exalted Thy Word and perfected Thy bounty and caused it to precede [3.5s]

INBA16:046 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=48] INBA89:198 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=201]

MKT4.171 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-171.html] MILAN.186 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/186.jpg] ASAT5.126x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=68]

@growth of the Cause, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @love and unity, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @praise and encouragement

AB00326

660

Arabic

قد خلقت یا الهی کونا جامعا و کیانا واسعا بفضاء غیر متناه قصرت عن حدوده العقول

Thou hast created, O my God, an all-encompassing universe and a vast existence within an infinite expanse, before whose bounds all minds stand powerless [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0458 [http://www.bahai.org/r/778385940] MKT1.191 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-190.html]

@suffering and imprisonment, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @material world a reflection of the spiritual, @call to action

AB00325

660

mixed

ای یاران من و یاوران من بانگ بانگ عبودیت است و جلوه جلوه رقیت آستان مقدس کل

O my friends and helpers! The call is the call of servitude, and the manifestation is the manifestation of thraldom at the sacred Threshold of all [3.5s]... ...Erelong will your brethren from Europe and America journey to Persia. There they will promote to an unprecedented degree the interests of art and industry

INBA13:092 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=46] INBA72:026 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=29] INBA88:227 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=261]

BRL_DAK#0527 [https://www.bahai.org/r/218968940] AVK4.452.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-456.html] NJB_v01#19a p.007x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_19]

BADM.173ax [http://www.bahai.org/r/301096973]

@obedience to and respect for government authority, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @servitude; submission to God; repentance

AB00323

660

mixed

ای نهال آمال آن بیهمال نامه وصول یافت آنی راحت و مهلت میسر نه تا بنگارش جواب

O thou sapling of hopes of the Peerless One! Thy letter was received. Not a moment's rest hath been granted me to compose a reply [3.5s]

MMK2#212 p.150 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-152.html] AYBY.412 #123 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-421.html]

@growth of the Cause, @zeal and fervor in teaching the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @chastisement and requital, @unity; oneness of humanity, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @education of children; moral education, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance

AB00322

660

mixed

Tablet on the Greatest Name (Lawh-i Ism-i A'zám)

ای دوستان الهی و یاران معنوی خداوند عالمیان در قرآن حکیم میفرماید و لکم فی

O ye beloved of God! O ye spiritual friends! The Lord of the worlds hath said in the Qur’an: “A noble pattern have ye in God’s Apostle.”

INBA13:406 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=203] INBA55:167 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=169] INBA88:197 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=231]

NURA#56 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MKT1.417 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-416.html] MNMK#102 p.187 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-185.html] MMK4#135 p.137 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-140.html] DWNP_v6#09 p.002-003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] BCH.155 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=152] DUR1.281x

LOTW#56 [http://www.bahai.org/r/389866271] SW_v04#04 p.071+074 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_4] BSTW#080 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=76] BSTW#361 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=18] BSTW#367 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=29]

R. Yazhari [https://ryazhari.bandcamp.com/album/anthem-acoustic]

@suffering and imprisonment, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @human reality created in the image of God, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00320

660

mixed

ای اهل قریه مبارکه وادی حجاز و یثرب و صحرای بطحاء که جولانگاه قبائل قحطان

O dwellers of the blessed village in the vale of Hijaz, of Yathrib and the desert plain of Batha, wherefrom roamed the tribes of Qahtan [3.5s]

MKT5.049b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-50.html] IQN.079 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/464.pdf#page=1] PYB#228 p.30 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/228.PDF#page=30]

@growth of the Cause, @call to action, @law of transformation and change, @universality of the Cause

AB00324

660

mixed

ای وحید فرید نامه ۵ محرم ۱۳۲۹ رسید هر چند چند روز پیش نامه مفصلی بشما مرقوم

O peerless and unique one! Your letter of 5 Muharram 1329 arrived, and although a few days ago a detailed letter was written to you [3.5s]... ...As to the Huquq, it is payable on whatever is left over after deducting one's yearly expenses. However, any money or possession which is necessary in producing income for one's subsistence

INBA17:145 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=147]

BRL_DAK#0671 [https://www.bahai.org/r/791644518] BRL_HUQUQP#046x [http://www.bahai.org/r/506104691] MMK6#411x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=301] AVK2.239.17x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-240.html] AVK2.257.16x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-258.html] AVK4.146.12x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-150.html] AVK4.451.07x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-455.html] MAS2.075-078 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-76.html] MSBH6.027-030 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_6]

BRL_HUQUQ#046x [http://www.bahai.org/r/809079802] COC#1165x

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @predictions and prophecies, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @law of Huququ'llah

AB02095

660

mixed

ای قائم بپیمان حضرت یزدان در این دم که صباح فلاح از مطلع آمال طالع و لائح... از جملهٴ محافظهٴ دین اللّه تربیت اطفال است

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant of the Lord God! In this hour when the morn of triumph hath dawned and shineth forth from the horizon of aspirations [3.5s]... ...And further, according to the Divine commandments, every child must learn reading and writing, and acquire such branches of knowledge as are useful and necessary

BRL_DAK#0670 [https://www.bahai.org/r/820064326] COMP_FAMP#56x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/family_life_compilation_originals.pdf] MJTB.092bx [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/mjtb.pdf] TISH.086-088 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=81] MAS6.045-046x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/se/MAS6/mas6-45.html]

BRL_FAM#56x [http://www.bahai.org/r/674319913] COC#0017x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_arts_crafts#I17] COC#0590x

@education of children; moral education, @praise and encouragement, @reward and punishment, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0365

Interview with W. A. Lawson of the Sacramento Bee, 1912-10-26

660

The papers write that up themselves. I do not claim to be a prophet at all… He is founding the basis of all the religions by declaring that the fundamental basis of divine religions are one and the same. It is not a new religion in that sense at all.

ECN.913 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=913] ECN.409+526x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=409]

@definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i, @oneness; unity of religion, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization, @critique of Western values; culture, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @unity in diversity, @religion as reality; definitions of religion, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @Muhammad; Islam, @universality of the Cause, @harmony of science and 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

ABU0360

Lesson given to I. D. Brittingham, Apr. 1909

660

The events mentioned in the first part of chapter 16 of Revelation happened before the coming of the Manifestation. The seven angels signify seven Powers

PN_1909F p051 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909F.pdf#page=51] BSTW#136 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=69]

@symbolism, @predictions and prophecies, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @prophecy and fulfillment, @war and peace, @rejection, opposition and persecution

interpretation of Rev ch16.

AB00328

Sharh-i-Fass-i-Nigin (on the Ringstone Symbol)

660

mixed

مدتی شد که آنجناب در پاریس بخدمت مشغولید هر چند زحمت و مشقت بسیار است ولی خدمت

For some time you have been engaged in service in Paris and although there is much hardship and difficulty, it is service [3.5s]... ...As regards the explanation of Monsieur Angelmann(?) concerning the writing of the Greatest Name on the ringstone

BRL_DAK#0571 [https://www.bahai.org/r/608637168] MMK6#166x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=124] AKHA_103BE #12 p.05 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_117BE #01-04 p.v [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK3.079.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-83.html] MAS2.100-103 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-101.html] OOL.C023 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw23-fa]

LOG#0910x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n910] BSC.478 #914x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] PN_various p010x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] RESP.072x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RESP.pdf#page=73] RBB.143-144 [https://bahai-library.org/maceoin_rituals_babism_bahaism] BLO_PT#160 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_lawh_ism_azam]

@ringstone symbol, @meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria), @Adam; Adam and Eve, @pairs in creation; male and female; B and E; agent and patient

AB00329

Some Answered Questions #021 The Bread and the Wine

660

Persian

مقصد از این نان مائدهء آسمانی کمالات الهی است یعنی هر کس از این مائده

By this bread is meant the heavenly sustenance of divine perfections. In other words

MFD#21 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-74.html] OOL.C022.21 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-06-fa]

SAQ#21 [http://www.bahai.org/r/352288959]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @spiritual transformation, @symbolism, @Christ; Christianity

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

ABU0357

Words spoken on 1915-09-23 in Haifa

660

Persian

اسباب وقتی که منقطع می شود، بهتر است [زیرا] انسان تشبث به اسباب الهی می کند. بشفای الهی باید [تقید] داشته باشد

When earthly means are cut off, it is better thus, for man doth then take recourse unto divine means. He must hold fast unto the divine healing [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-09-23 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@growth of the Cause, @universal peace; world unity, @oneness; unity of religion, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ABU0364

Words spoken on 1918-12-22

660

Now that thou art returning to America thou must think of taking unto thyself a wife…. The bond that unites hearts most perfectly is loyalty

DAS.1918? SW_v11#01 p.020-021 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_1]

A. Youssefi (1) [https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/sweet-singing-birds] A. Youssefi (2) [https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/the-union]

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @marriage as means of spiritual progress, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @education of children; moral education, @personal instructions

ABU0362

Words to Fugeta, Mrs. P. et al, spoken on 1920-01-07

660

First of all, the Blessed Beauty made this Covenant so that there should remain no differences... His Holiness Christ wished his followers to understand that whatever Peter said was correct.

PN_1919 p073 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=73]

@role of the Covenant in preserving unity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Christ; Christianity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

ABU0358

Words to Jinab-i-Hizari et al, spoken on 1913-09-17

660

Persian

الحمد لله در این سنوات جنگ احباء در هر کجا بودند محفوظ ماندند

Praise be unto God that throughout these years of war the friends, wheresoever they dwelt, remained preserved and protected [3.5s]

MUH3.225-226 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=241]

@contention and conflict, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant

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

AB00334

650

Persian

ای شخص ربانی پرهمت نامه شما رسید کلامی از برای مجلس فقرا از من خواسته بودید

O divine soul of high endeavor! Your letter has reached me, wherein you requested from me a discourse for the gathering of the poor [3.5s]... ...O my beloved companions! The people of the world are divided into two classes. One class are the rich (capitalists)…. His Holiness Baha'o'llah spent many days in the utmost poverty.

NJB_v05#06 p.005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_6]

DAS.1914-03-26 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=82] SW_v08#13 p.161x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_13]

@material and spiritual existence; two books, @Christ; Christianity, @suffering and imprisonment, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty

AB00335

650

Persian

ای یاران الهی نامه مفصلی از جناب اسفندیار مهربان رسید حکایت از شرح کشاف

O divine friends! A detailed letter has been received from his honor, the kind Isfandiyar, giving a comprehensive account [3.5s]... ...Concerning “wings” and “the comb” mentioned in the Hidden Words: this means the Covenant of God

BRL_DAK#1051 [https://www.bahai.org/r/512996748] AVK4.013.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-17.html] MAS2.035-037x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-36.html] YARP2.110 p.133 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-139.html]

BRL_ATE#204x [https://www.bahai.org/r/424424234]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly, @justice and wrath of God

AB00333

650

Persian

ای زائر مشکین نفس احزاب متنوعه و گروه انبوه در هر سنه از دوست و آشنا و خویش

O thou pilgrim of musk-laden breath! Various parties and great multitudes of friends, acquaintances and kindred gather each year [3.5s]

INBA17:197 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=199]

BRL_DAK#1052 [https://www.bahai.org/r/622886979] KHMI.082 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/677.pdf#page=97]

@permission for visit; pilgrimage, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00332

650

mixed

ای اماء رحمن بادهای مخالف شمع پیمان را احاطه کرده و طیور غرور عندلیب گلشن

O handmaidens of the Merciful! Contrary winds have encircled the Candle of the Covenant, and the birds of pride have beset the nightingale of the rose-garden [3.5s]

INBA13:204 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=102] INBA88:278 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=312]

AYBY.359 #040 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-368.html] KHSH09.047 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_9] MSHR3.331x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-333.html]

@prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

AB00331

650

mixed

اللهم یا ربی المجلی علی الطور و مالک یوم النشور نور السموات باعث الکائنات

O my Lord, Thou Who didst manifest Thyself upon Sinai and art the Lord of Resurrection Day, Light of the heavens, Quickener of all created things [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0050 [http://www.bahai.org/r/151331294] MKT9.005 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=3] SFI18.016-017 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_18.pdf#page=16]

@call to action, @spiritual transformation, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB01686

650

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما که بتاریخ ۷ شهر ذی الحجه ۳۳۹ بود وصول یافت عالم... باری مرقوم نموده بوديد خلق عموماً گرفتارند

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! Thy letter dated 7 Dhi’l-Hajjih 1339, was received. The world particularly Iran is in commotion… The friends must engage in the work of developing Persia

BRL_DAK#0673 [https://www.bahai.org/r/974790477] MMK6#520x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=380] MSHR3.235x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-237.html]

BRL_SOCIAL#016x [http://www.bahai.org/r/958614195]

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @past, present and future of Iran, @spiritual transformation, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0373

Address to the Baha'is at Studio Hall in Washington, 1912-04-21

650

I have come here to visit you. With the greatest longing I have wished to see you. Realizing it was only with a great deal of trouble... In this cycle there shall be such progress along the lines of civilization

PUP#015 (p.037-039) [http://www.bahai.org/r/550895455] SW_v03#03 p.009-010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3] BSTW#337 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_301-350.pdf#page=53]

@spiritual springtime, @coming-of-age; maturity of mankind, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @harmony of science and religion, @spiritual transformation

AB00336

Some Answered Questions #067 Eternal Life and Entrance into the Kingdom of God

650

Persian

سؤال از حیات ابدیه و دخول در ملکوت مینمائید ملکوت باصطلاح ظاهری آسمان گفته

You have asked concerning eternal life and entrance into the Kingdom. The Kingdom is outwardly referred to as “heaven”

MFD#67 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-172.html] BSHN.140.504x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-511.html] BSHN.144.492x MHT1a.158x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/183.pdf#page=159] MHT1b.116x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/185.pdf#page=116] OOL.C022.67 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-22-fa]

SAQ#67 [http://www.bahai.org/r/837527793]

@spiritual transformation, @soul; spirit after death, @proofs for the existence; immortality of the soul, @knowledge; recognition of God, @attaining the life of the spirit, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @relationship of the soul to the body, @the Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU0374

Words spoken at the sea shore in June 1910

650

Ja und nein, nämlich: jede Manifestation hat ihre prophetische Aufgabe und ihren prophetischen Charakter, aber nicht jeder Prophet ist zugleich eine Manifestation

SDW v12#02 p.014-015 [https://file.bahai.media/7/7f/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_12_Nr_02.pdf#page=4]

@station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @return of the Manifestations of God, @categories of Prophets (major; minor; village)

ABU0370

Words spoken ca. 1900

650

Hell signifies punishment and the Kingdom signifies reward.... Heaven and Hell have been misunderstood until the Blessed Perfection explained the true meaning

PN_1900_heh p043 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=43] PN_1900 p047 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=47] PN_1900 p111 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900.pdf#page=111]

@recompense; reward for belief; right action, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @chastisement and requital, @soul; spirit after death, @knowledge; recognition of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

ABU0375

Words spoken ca. 1909-1910

650

Seine Heiligkeit Bahá'u'lláh hat ausdrücklich im gesegneten "Kitab i aqdas" erlaubt: "lhr (die Bahá'í) mögt alles tun, was nicht dem gesunden Menschenverstand widerstreitet"

SDW v11#05 p.052-054 [https://file.bahai.media/8/88/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_05.pdf#page=6]

@House of Justice, @Shoghi Effendi and the Guardianship, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @justice and mercy, @reward and punishment, @law of Huququ'llah, @law of obligatory prayer

ABU0367

Words spoken ca. Jan. 1909

650

Persian

شریعت الله بر دو قسم است یک قسم اساس دین الله و آن تعلق بروحانیات دارد

The Law of God is of two kinds: One kind is the foundation of the Religion of God and pertaineth unto spiritual things [3.5s]

KHH2.262-265 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/355.pdf#page=283]

@Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas

ABU0368

Words spoken on 1914-07-10 in Haifa

650

Persian

عداوت دو نوع است یک عداوت دینی و یک عداوت شخصی نفس مسلم

A person animated by religious enmity subjects us to harsh treatment and persecution. By doing this he thinks he is serving his religion

YHA1.108-109 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=110] NJB_v05#14 p.003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_14]

DAS.1914-07-10 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=36]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @fellowship with the wayward and ungodly

ABU0366

Words spoken on 1919-03-09

650

Persian

امروز روز بسیار مبارکیست متبرک و متیمن است طلوع انوار صبح هدی است

Today is a most blessed Day, sanctified and auspicious; it is the dawning of the effulgent rays of the Morn of Guidance [3.5s]

AYT.113 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-113.html]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @apocalyptic imagery, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @prophecy and fulfillment, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @the Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab

ABU0376

Words spoken on Mt Carmel in June 1909

650

Die Gesegnete Vollkommenheit Bahá'u'lláh hat in allen Seinen geheiligten Schriften, im Kitab-i-Aqdas, im Eschrakat

SDW v11#12 p.134-135 [https://file.bahai.media/7/72/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_12.pdf#page=4]

@education and the development of capacity, @education of children; moral education, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @educational curricula, @differences in human capacity, @Christ; Christianity

ABU0369

Words to Kathryn Frankland spoken at house of the Master in Haifa, 1920-11-22

650

Praise be to God you have been here a month and have attained to the privilege of visiting the Holy Tombs

PN_1920 p073 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=73] PN_1920_heh p026 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh.pdf#page=26] PN_1920_heh_haifa p083 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh_haifa.pdf#page=83]

@growth of the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual foundations of true knowledge, @The Holy Spirit

ABU0371

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-27

650

The spiritual food is prepared. Blessed are those who eat therefrom... if you can concoct such delicious dishes with vegetables and nuts I can assure you many people will join your crusade against slaughtering animals and eating their flesh.

DAS.1914-03-27 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_08.pdf#page=85]

@consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @material and spiritual existence; two books

ABU0372

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-05

650

When we were exiled again from Baghdad, in our company there was a Bahá'í by the name of Mirza Ahmad Kashani. He accompanied Bahá'u'lláh to Constantinople

DAS.1913-05-05

@banishment to; life in Adrianople, @humor; jokes, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment, @stories; anecdotes

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

AB00458

640

mixed

ای منادی میثاق الیوم یوم اشراق نور عبودیت از مطلع آفاقست و هنگام طلوع و سطوع

O herald of the Covenant! This is the day when the light of servitude dawneth from the horizon of all regions, the time of its rising and radiance [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0762 [https://www.bahai.org/r/470125649] AKHA_106BE #07 p.04x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @call to action, @methods of teaching the Cause

AB00348

640

mixed

یا من فدیت روحک و جسمک و نفسک و ذاتک فی سبیل الله علیک بهاء الله و ثنائه بما

O thou who hast sacrificed thy spirit, thy body, thy soul and thy very being in the path of God! Upon thee be the glory and praise of God, inasmuch as [3.5s]... ...The darkness of error that has enveloped the East and the West is, in this most great cycle, battling with the light of Divine Guidance

MKT1.252 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-251.html] MMK3#103 p.068x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-70.html] PYB#021 p.02 MSHR3.346x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-348.html]

BRL_CRISIS#11x [http://www.bahai.org/r/838793018] ADJ.006x2x [http://www.bahai.org/r/866013180] COC#0268x COC#1529x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_opposition#1529] COC#1530x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_opposition#1530]

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Mary Magdalene, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00346

640

mixed

ترانی یا الهی قد استغرقت فی بحار الحیره و خضت فی غمار الذهول و لم دار کیف

Thou beholdest me, O my God, immersed in the oceans of wonderment and plunged in the depths of bewilderment, and I know not how [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0763 [https://www.bahai.org/r/470125643] MKT1.285b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-284.html] AHB.128BE #06-11 p.253x MJMJ2.054 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-55.html] MMG2#386 p.432 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-435.html] YHA1.367-368x (2.736) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=369]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @prayer for forgiveness

AB00344

640

Arabic

ایها الشهم الجلیل امیر الوفاء شهیر الولاء ایدک الله لا اکاد اشرح ما تخلل فی خلدی من بشائر

O noble and valiant one, prince of fidelity, renowned for loyalty, may God sustain thee! Scarcely can I express the glad-tidings that have [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0949 [https://www.bahai.org/r/530034956] MKT3.196 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-196.html] MNMK#033 p.117 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-115.html] ABB.129 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol6/qubayn/qub129.gif]

@present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @praise and encouragement, @predictions and prophecies, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @war and peace, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @chastisement and requital

AB00343

640

mixed

ای ناظر بملکوت ابهی و مشتعل بنار محبت الله مسطورات آنجناب تلاوت شد و نفحات

O thou who gazest upon the Kingdom of Abhá and art enkindled with the fire of the love of God! Thy letter was perused, and its fragrances [3.5s]

PYK.224 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1484.pdf#page=241] MSHR3.157x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-159.html]

@prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00342

640

Persian

ای کنیز عزیز الهی حمد کن خدا را که در آستان مقدسش مقربی و در ملکوت عزتش معزز

O thou dear handmaid of God! Praise thou God, because thou art favoured at His Holy Threshold, and cherished in the Kingdom of His might.

MNMK#153 p.285 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-283.html] MMK1#142 p.161 [https://www.bahai.org/r/952863502] YMM.364x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=372]

SWAB#142 [http://www.bahai.org/r/447420171] TAB.091-094 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA91] BSC.489 #940x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @symbolism, @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

AB00339

640

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان از وقتیکه در سبیل الهی بکمال توجه و تضرع و خلوص آرزوی خدمت

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! From the time when, with the utmost devotion and supplication and sincerity, thou didst yearn to serve in the path of God [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0511 [https://www.bahai.org/r/188578398] MKT2.319 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-319.html] MMK5#184 p.144 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-147.html] YHA1.014x (1.012) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=16]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @translation; publication of the Sacred Writings

AB00338

640

Persian

ای بنده آستان مقدس نامه شما رسید جواب مفصل ممکن نه مختصر مرقوم می گردد و آن

O servant of the sacred Threshold! Thy letter was received. A detailed reply is not possible; therefore a brief response is herewith written [3.5s]

YMM.165x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=173] YMM.230x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=238] YMM.364x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=372] YARP2.481 p.356 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/YP/yp-362.html]

@Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people

AB00337

640

Persian

ای افنان سدره مبارکه در خصوص مکتوب آقا سید میرزا آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید کل

O Branch of the Blessed Tree! Concerning the letter from Aqa Siyyid Mirza, all that you had written [3.5s]... ...With regard to the Sacred House in Fars, the believers in Shíraz have made a loud protest. About two months ago, they wrote collectively asking for [me to] intervene in the affairs of the Blessed House…. Concerning the other matter, the consideration you have shown to the American visitors

INBA87:303 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=305] INBA52:307 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=309]

GEN.340-341x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/a/afnan_rabbani_genesis_faiths.pdf] AFNAN.152x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/r/rabbani_habibullah_afnan_memories.pdf#page=154]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @suffering and imprisonment

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

AB00345

Some Answered Questions #038 The Three Stations of the Divine Manifestations

640

Persian

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

AB00347

Some Answered Questions #043 The Two Kinds of Prophets

640

Persian

کلیهء انبیا بر دو قسمند قسمی نبی بالاستقلالند و متبوع و قسمی دیگر غیر مستقل و تابع

Prophets are in general of two kinds. Some are independent Prophets Who are followed, while others are not independent and are themselves followers.

MFD#43 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-119.html] OOL.C022.43 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-08-fa]

SAQ#43 [http://www.bahai.org/r/245658440]

@categories of Prophets (major; minor; village), @corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East

ABU0377

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-13

640

How I longed for the re-appearance of these divine nights!... There is a place in America called Green Acre. It is customary during the months of summer

DAS.1913-12-13 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=58] SW_v08#05 p.050x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_5]

@growth of the Cause, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @freedom of thought and action, @eulogies; reminiscences, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @praise and encouragement, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU0380

Words spoken on 1917-02-16

640

It is very good. It sticks.... Consider how men, in order to gain wealth and honor, threw themselves

SW_v10#10 p.200-202 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_10]

@service to others; to the Cause of God, @living waters; water of life, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual transformation, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0378

Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901

640

the Blessed Perfection had revealed secretly in a Tablet some words about Universal Peace... Two of the signs of the Manifestation of the Cause of God are the preaching and acceptance of the Religion of God

PN_1901 p011 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1901.pdf#page=11] NRMM.220-221 [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=zPYdAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA220]

@Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @growth of the Cause, @universal peace; world unity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @prophecy and fulfillment

ABU0379

Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-29

640

I have mentioned and spoken about this subject of mathematics in the meetings in America. Now also tonight I want to say a little about it... there is a power which is very strong which will become apparent in future, such as the power of dynamite... Two-thirds of the people will perish.

PN_1919 p051 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=51]

@present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @predictions and prophecies, @power of the mind over nature, @astrology and numerology, @present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

ABU0381

Words to Kinney, Beede, Thompson party, spoken on 1909-07-09

640

Music is one of the important arts. It has a great effect upon the human spirit. Musical melodies are a certain something which prove to be accidental... Music is an important means to the education

COC#1421 [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_music#1421] LOG#1361x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1361] LOG#1370x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1370] SW_v15#04 p.130x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_4] PN_1909 p015 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=15] PN_1909 p047 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909A.pdf#page=47] PN_1909C p063 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909C.pdf#page=63] PN_1909F p034 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1909F.pdf#page=34] DJT.080-082 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] BLO_PN#027 [https://bahai-library.com/thompson_diary] STAB#143 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=143]

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @music and singing, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]

ABU0383

630

Persian

از عادت حکومت ترکیه است که حکم فرمان را بحضور مقصر میخوانند تا تکلیف خود

It is among the customs of the Turkish government that they read aloud the decree in the presence of the accused, that he may know his fate [3.5s]

ASAT4.349-352 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/430.pdf#page=176]

@suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @martyrs and martyrdom, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB00364

630

Arabic

مولای مولای هولاء عبیدک الحافون حول عرش رحمانیتک الناظرون الی افق فردانیتک

O my Lord, O my Lord! These are Thy servants who circle round the throne of Thy mercy, gazing toward the horizon of Thy divine singleness [3.5s]

INBA13:177 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=88]

BRL_DAK#0768 [https://www.bahai.org/r/542609841]

@prayer for specific individuals; groups, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

AB00363

630

Arabic

ایتها المنجذبه بنفحات الله قد اطلعت بمضمون کتابک و قد سرنی معانی خطابک لان

O thou who art attracted by the fragrances of God! I have perused the contents of thy letter, and rejoiced at the meanings of thine epistle, for [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0577 [https://www.bahai.org/r/447824057] MKT3.073 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-73.html] MNMK#019 p.095 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-93.html]

@suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @spiritual transformation, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @knowledge; recognition of God

AB00362

630

mixed

ای یاران شرق و غرب از اعظم اساس دین الله و معانی کلمه الله و تکلیف احباء الله

O ye friends of the East and the West! Among the foundations of the religion of God, the inner significances of the Word of God, and the duties of the friends of God... O God, my God! Illumine the brows of Thy true lovers

COMP_MASHRIQP#22x [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/originals_mashriq_compilation.pdf] MKT4.128 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-128.html] MNMK#084 p.152x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-150.html] MMK1#235 p.306x [https://www.bahai.org/r/321610749] AMK.057-058 AVK3.261.19x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-265.html] MJMJ2.030ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-31.html] MMG2#327 p.365x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-368.html]

SWAB#235x [http://www.bahai.org/r/434482539] BRL_MASHRIQ#22x [http://www.bahai.org/r/484026993] BPRY.084-085x [http://www.bahai.org/r/565289136] LOG#0836x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n836] LOG#0840x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n840] SW_v06#17 p.138-139 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_17] SW_v08#11 p.137-138 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_11] DWN_v5#09 p.007x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-5-burma-1927]

@interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @unity in diversity

AB00361

630

mixed

ای یاران رحمانی حضرت اسم الله مکتوبی مرقوم و مرسول نمودند و ذکر آن یاران الهی

O ye companions of the All-Merciful! His honor Ismu'llah hath penned and dispatched a letter making mention of those divine friends [3.5s]

MKT9.242 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=122] MMK6#193 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=143] FRH.108-110 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/frh.pdf#page=106]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00360

630

Persian

ای یاران حقیقی و دوستان الهی شمع روشن است و قرن جمال ابهی گلزار و گلشن فجر

O ye true friends and loved ones of God! The Candle shineth resplendent, and the century of the Abha Beauty is even as a flowering rose-garden

NURA#03 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#037 p.041 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-44.html]

LOTW#03 [http://www.bahai.org/r/171936731]

@suffering and imprisonment, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @martyrs and martyrdom, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00359

630

Persian

ای منتسبان حضرت زائر جناب خان کوه و بیابان پیمود و از صحرا و دریا مرور نمود... در یوم ظهور و قرن مجلی طور

O ye who are associated with the revered visitor Jinab-i-Khan! That holy soul traversed mountains and deserts, and journeyed across wilderness and seas... in this day of Manifestation and this age of the light that shone on Sinai [3.5s]

INBA17:106 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v017/?page=108]

MKT4.096 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-96.html] BSHN.140.479.09x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/BN/bn-486.html] BSHN.144.472bx

@progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @knowledge; recognition of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart

AB00358

630

mixed

ای راسخ پیمان و ثابت دل و جان عبدالبهاء در این روزها عازم امریکاست و نهایت

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant and firm in heart and soul! In these days 'Abdu'l-Bahá is bound for America and is most [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0767 [https://www.bahai.org/r/542609845] MKT5.179 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA5/ma5-180.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @praise and encouragement, @travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering and imprisonment

AB00356

630

Persian

ای دو امة البهاء جمال قدم و اسم اعظم روحی و کینونتی و ذاتی لتربته الفدا در هر

O ye two handmaidens of Baha! The Ancient Beauty, the Most Great Name—may my life, my soul, and mine inmost being be offered up

NURA#31 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#049 p.052 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-55.html]

LOTW#31 [http://www.bahai.org/r/703165500]

@banishments of Baha'u'llah, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @suffering and imprisonment, @consolation and comfort

AB00355

630

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان در عنوان مکتوب خطاب یا عبدالبهاء بود این چه ندا بود که جان را

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! The opening of thy letter bore the words “O ‘Abdu’l-Baha!” What a call this was

NURA#76 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#171 p.193 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-196.html]

LOTW#76 [http://www.bahai.org/r/578435737]

@duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB00354

630

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان انجمن ادیان در پای تخت ژاپون امسال تاسیس گردید جمعی از اطراف

O thou who art firm in the Covenant! The International Congress of Religions was organized this year in the capital of Japan.

MMK3#127 p.088 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-90.html] MAS9.141x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-142.html]

TAB.496-498 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA496] JWTA.049 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze]

@obedience to and respect for government authority, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @non-participation in politics, @newspapers and the media; publications

AB00353

630

mixed

ای بنده الهی سوال از عصمت انبیای سلف نموده بودی مظاهر مقدسه ما ینطق عن الهوی

Thou hast asked about the infallibility of the ancient prophets. The Holy Manifestations uttered that which was revealed unto them… Thy second question concerneth the impregnation of Mary through the Holy Spirit. This is an established and certain fact

MMK6#504x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=369] AVK1.324x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-349.html] AVK2.049 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-50.html] AVK2.186.18x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-187.html] MAS2.081x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-82.html] MAS9.004 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-5.html] MSHR5.075-077 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=71]

KSHK#25x [https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2017/06/02/infallibility-and-adams-sin/] ADMS#222x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00353_excerpt/]

@birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat], @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @outward and inward meanings

AB00352

630

mixed

ای امین عبدالبهاء نامه شما که بتاریخ هشتم رمضان ۳۲۵ مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید

O trusted one of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, thy letter dated 8 Ramaḍán 1325 was received and perused [3.5s]

MMK3#181 p.126x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-128.html] MSHR2.057x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-59.html] YBN.065-067 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=70] AMIN.125-129 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @growth of the Cause, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @poems and quotation from poetry

AB00351

630

Persian

ای ابناء ملکوت نامه شما رسید در وقتیکه حال صعب و عسیر بود و وصول نامه مشکل و مستحیل

O ye sons of the Kingdom! At a time when conditions were most difficult and oppressive and the reception of letters hard and impracticable… In the future, God willing, there will be erected throughout all the regions

BRL_DAK#0714 [https://www.bahai.org/r/910055471] COMP_MASHRIQP#15x [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/originals_mashriq_compilation.pdf]

BRL_MASHRIQ#15x [http://www.bahai.org/r/181603440] TAB.435-438 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435] BWF.414-415x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] BSTW#078 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=71]

@loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @firmness in the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00350

630

Arabic

الهی الهی ترانی اسیرا للقدر و القضاء و غریقا فی بحار المصائب و البلاء طریحا

O my God, my God! Thou seest me a captive to fate and destiny, engulfed in seas of tribulation and calamity, cast down [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0761 [https://www.bahai.org/r/471772324] MKT4.005 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-5.html]

@acquiescence and resignation; contentment, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00349

630

mixed

اللهم یا ذا العظمه و الکبریاء و العزه و العلی تعز من تشاء و توید من تشاء

O God! O Thou Who art the Possessor of grandeur and majesty, of might and transcendence! Thou dost exalt whom Thou willest and strengthen whom Thou pleasest [3.5s]

INBA88:372 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=406]

@station of the Manifestation of God, @prayer for protection, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

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

AB00913

630

mixed

ای یاران عبدالبهاء جناب فروغی مکتوبی ارسال نمود و ذکر اسماء آن یاران دل و جان

O friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! His honour Furúghí hath sent a letter mentioning the names of those beloved friends of heart and soul [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0753 [https://www.bahai.org/r/855384716] MMK2#290 p.210x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-212.html] AMK.125-125bx GHA.227x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/GHA/gha-236.html]

@suffering and imprisonment, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @consultation, @banishments of Baha'u'llah

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]

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

ABU0387

Address to the Baha'is at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-06-13

630

Persian

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

ABU0394

Address to the Baha'is at Parsons home in Washington, 1912-04-24

630

You are welcome this afternoon, most welcome. I am ever happy to see you. I ask God that meeting me... O Thou merciful God! O Thou Who art mighty and powerful!

BPRY.087-088x [http://www.bahai.org/r/156144709] PUP#022 (p.054-056) [http://www.bahai.org/r/213803636] SW_v03#03 p.020-021 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @praise and encouragement, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds

ABU0386

Pain and Sorrow: Words spoken on 1911-11-22 in Paris

630

Persian

جمیع بشر همیشه مورد دو احساس هستند یکی احساس سرور دیگری احساس حزن وقت سرور

In this world we are influenced by two sentiments, Joy and Pain. Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital

BRL_DAK#0955 [https://www.bahai.org/r/495604297] AMK.207-210 DWNP_v6#08 p.002-003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] KHF.039 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=42] KHAB.192 (202) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.197 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-199.html] KHTP.146

PT#35 p.110 [http://www.bahai.org/r/239376955]

J. Heath [track 4] [https://9starmedia.com/jamey-heath-i-have-returned-to-thee]

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @suffering and imprisonment, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0385

Public address given on 1912-05-29

630

The divine Manifestations have been iconoclastic in Their teachings, uprooting error

PUP#057 (p.154-156) [http://www.bahai.org/r/697784579] SW_v03#10 p.013-014 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10]

@oneness; unity of religion, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God, @Christ; Christianity, @Primal Will and the Word; Remembrance; Manifestation of God, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0384

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14

630

Persian

انسان دو قسم استعداد دارد فطری و اکتسابی مانند سایر کائنات که هر یک استعداد و خاصیت

Personality is of two kinds. One is the natural or God-given personality which the western thinkers call individuality

BDA2.138x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-146.html]

DAS.1913-02-14 SW_v04#02 p.038-040 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2] MHMD2.172x ADP.130-134 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130]

@education and the development of capacity, @spiritual transformation, @the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul, @differences in human capacity, @two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within

ABU0395

Words spoken at The Friends' Meeting House in London, 1913-01-12

630

About one thousand years ago a Society was formed in Persia called the Society of the Friends, who gathered together for silent communion

PT#54 p.185 [http://www.bahai.org/r/264588786] BSC.322 #642 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSTW#091 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=104]

@meditation, @contemplation, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @divine philosophy and natural philosophy, @mind as intermediary between soul and body, @intuition; inspiration

ABU0391

Words spoken ca. 1914-11 in Abu Sinan

630

There was an important man in Acca who had many cases pending in the court; but the judge postponed the settlement of his affairs from day to day.

DAS.1914-11-05

@humor; jokes, @bribery and corruption

ABU0389

Words spoken en route in carriage in Haifa, 1915-02-07

630

Persian

من ابدا سبب فصل نشدم خودشان خود را از یکدیگر جدا کردند جمال مبارک عهدی گرفتند

I never caused their separation. They separated themselves. The Blessed Beauty established a Covenant

KHH1.166 (1.228)x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=197]

KHHE.240-241x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-02-07 BSR_v13 p.089x [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan]

@methods of teaching the Cause, @creativity in art, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @unity in diversity, @goodly deeds; actions, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0392

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-20

630

A group should come together every nineteen days. It is not optional, it is incumbent on them. In every city they should do this.... these Houses of Justice will not be in every village but only in the large cities

PN_1919 p148 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=148] LAT.072-075 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@House of Justice, @the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving, @elections, @Nineteen-Day Feast, @music and singing

ABU0390

Words to Lua Getsinger, spoken on 1913-11-10

630

When thou dost enter a city in India, associate with the people in the beginning as a tourist, as a person interested in India

DAS.1913-11-10 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=109]

@constitutional revolution in Iran, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @methods of teaching the Cause

ABU0393

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-07-20

630

There was a Motasarraf by the name of Abdu'r-Rahman Pasha. In some ways he became most inimical against us. He did his best to find a pretext

DAS.1914-07-20 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=59]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance

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

AB00379

620

mixed

ای یاران عبدالبهاء نامه ای که مجتمعا تبریک ورود باقلیم مصر مرقوم نموده بودید

O friends of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! The letter which ye collectively wrote to celebrate [my] arrival in the realm of Egypt [3.5s]

AMK.121-123 ASAT5.133-135x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=71] RHQM1.122-124 (158x) (092-094x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=73] YHA1.098-099 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=100] QT108.077-078 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=77]

@Ottoman commissions of investigation, @suffering and imprisonment, @justice and wrath of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00378

620

mixed

ای یاران روحانی جناب میرزا مهدی اخوان صفا مدت حیاترا وقف اعلاء کلمه الله نمود

O spiritual friends! Jinab-i-Mirza Mahdi Ikhwan-i-Safa devoted the span of his life to the exaltation of the Word of God [3.5s]

TZH8.0129-131 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/vol5/tzh8a/TZHVol8a.pdf#page=131] DUR4.504x MSBH4.089 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/250.pdf#page=42] NNY.126-127x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=136]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00377

620

mixed

ای یاران الهی خطه شیراز منسوب بحضرت بی نیاز و موطن کاشف اسرار بر اهل راز

O friends of God! The city of Shíraz is connected with the Self-Subsisting; it is the native land of the One Who hath unraveled a myriad mysteries

INBA87:187 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=189] INBA52:189 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=191]

MKT1.298 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-297.html] AYT.184 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AT/at-184.html] PYM.115-116x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/PM2/pm2-115.html] YHA1.340x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=342]

ADMS#065i22x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/passages-on-iran/]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the power of words; of speech, @music and singing

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

AB00375

620

mixed

ای ناطق بثنای الهی آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید و از مضامین نهایت تعجب

O thou who speakest in praise of God! That which thou didst write was perused, and its contents caused the utmost astonishment [3.5s]

MMK5#180 p.138 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-141.html]

@humility; meekness; lowliness, @consolation and comfort, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00365

620

Arabic

الحمد لله الذی کشف الظلام بنور ساطع من الصبح المبین و فتق و قشع سحاب الاحتجاب

Praise be to God, Who hath dispelled the darkness by the radiant light of the manifest morn, and hath rent asunder and scattered the clouds of concealment [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0504 [https://www.bahai.org/r/802579696] MKT4.002 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-2.html]

@call to action, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for spiritual recognition

AB00371

620

mixed

ای عزیز عبدالبهاء دو طغرا نامه شما پی در پی رسید مضمون یکی تفصیل لایحه مزوره

O beloved of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Two of your letters arrived in quick succession. The contents of one detailed the false document [3.5s]

INBA85:525 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=527]

MMK5#155 p.120 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-123.html] AVK3.136.01x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-140.html] AVK3.279.02x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-283.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @consolation and comfort, @review of publications

AB00370

620

...Know ye of a certainty that the question of the gathering of the descendants of Abraham in Jerusalem

SW_v08#17 p.225-226 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_17]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @prophecy and fulfillment, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people

AB00369

620

Persian

Lawh-i-Hikmat; Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Explaining Three Verses in the Lawh-i-Hikmat, A

خدمت باحبّا خدمت بملکوت اللّه است و رعایت فقرا از تعالیم الهیّه

O thou daughter of the Kingdom! Numerous letters have been received

MMK1#011 p.024x [https://www.bahai.org/r/821890238]

SWAB#011x [http://www.bahai.org/r/355974500] SW_v10#06 p.109-110 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_6]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @material and spiritual existence; two books, @prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @review of publications

AB00368

620

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه رسید و از سفر خوار و سمنان و سنگسر و ساران و گیلان محال

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received, with news of thy journey through Khavar, Semnan, Sangsar, Saran and Gilan [3.5s]

MSBH3.499-501 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_3/?page=250]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @call to action, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities, @praise and encouragement, @assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick

AB00367

620

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان چند روز پیش مکتوبی ارسال گشت لهذا مختصرا مرقوم میشود ای بنده

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Some days ago a letter was dispatched; therefore, I write briefly. O servant of God [3.5s]

INBA89:096 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=99]

MMK5#032 p.034 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-37.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @martyrs and martyrdom, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

AB00366

620

O thou my dear affectionate son! Two letters from thee have arrived. Exercise

BWF.384-385x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] SW_v11#15 p.257-258 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_15] BSTW#258 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=14]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people, @early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

AB00372

620

O thou bearer of the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God! Your letter written four months ago was received. It contained the good news of the assemblage

TAB.420-423 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA420] LOG#0800x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n800]

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @unity; oneness of humanity, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @music and singing

AB00373

Commentary on passages from the Tablet of Wisdom

620

mixed

ای منادی پیمان سوال از دو مسئله مهمه نموده بودید که تفسیر دو ایه از ایات

O Herald of the Covenant! Thou didst inquire about two important matters requiring the interpretation of two verses from the verses [3.5s]... ...“That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today.” From this blessed verse it is clear and evident that the universe is evolving… The substance and primary matter of contingent beings is the ethereal power

AVK1.167 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-192.html] ANDA#19 p.35x [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-19] MAS2.068-070 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-69.html] YMM.208x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=216] VUJUD.088x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf]

BLO_PT#106 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_three_verses_hikmat] BLO_failayn [https://bahai-library.com/rafati_hikmat_agents_patients] VUJUDE.143-144x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf]

@The Primal Will; self-generation of the Primal Will, @evolution; human evolution, @nature and God's will, @all things are in motion; kinds of motion

ABU0403

Public address given on 1912-07-05

620

The Divine Sovereignty is an ancient sovereignty; not an accidental sovereignty.

PUP#079 (p.218-220) [http://www.bahai.org/r/199261717] SW_v04#05 p.087+089-090 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_5]

@the Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle, @literal interpretation, @Adam; Adam and Eve, @names and attributes of God, @God's attributes require the existence of objects, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @creation of the world, @infinity and eternity

ABU0399

Public address to Advanced Thought Center, spoken on 1912-04-14

620

Persian

من از ممالک بعیده آمدم تا این مجامع را ببینم از مشاهده

I have come from distant lands in order to visit the assemblies and meetings.... the greatest bestowal of God is love

KHTB2.021 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-23.html] NJB_v04#11 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_11] BDA1.034n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-34.html]

BWF.217-220 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] PUP#006 (p.014-016) [http://www.bahai.org/r/030543175] SW_v03#10 p.005-006 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_10] SW_v14#02 p.060 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2]

MHMD1.043-044 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=68]

@mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual transformation, @the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God, @unity in diversity, @love of God

AB00381

Some Answered Questions #022 The Miracles of Christ

620

Persian

مظاهر مقدسهء الهیه مصدر معجزاتند و مظهر آثار عجیبه هر امر مشکلی و غیر ممکنی

The Manifestations of God are sources of miraculous deeds and marvellous signs.

MFD#22 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-77.html] OOL.C022.22 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-07-fa]

SAQ#22 [http://www.bahai.org/r/791519794] PN_1905 p007 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1905.pdf#page=7] BAVA.017-019x [http://bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lucas_my_visit_acca.pdf#page=1] BLO_PN#021x [https://bahai-library.com/lucas_my_visit_acca]

@miracles and their interpretation, @two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight, @life and death, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

AB00380

Some Answered Questions #072 Healing without Medicine

620

Persian

Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá; Life of Thomas Breakwell, The

تفصیل این کیفیت از پیش بیان شد اگر درست ملتفت نشده‌اید تکرار کنیم

A detailed explanation of this matter was provided earlier. If you have not fully grasped it

MFD#72 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-181.html] OOL.C022.72 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-27-fa]

SAQ#72 [http://www.bahai.org/r/023937412]

@mind as intermediary between soul and body, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @The Holy Spirit, @health and healing; material and spiritual healing

ABU0400

Words spoken at Blomfield home in London, 1912-12-24

620

Persian

هر انسانی باید اول در فکر تربیت خویش باشد در فکر این باشد که خودش کامل گردد

Every person must first think of educating themselves. Indeed, they must think of perfecting themselves, for it is necessary for one to first educate oneself

KHF.281 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=284] KHAB.396 (401) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.107 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-109.html] NJB_v05#18 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_18]

ADMS#268 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0400/]

@education of children; moral education, @words vs deeds, @self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline, @spiritual transformation

ABU0397

Words spoken on 1914-01-30

620

Praise be to God that you have come to this Divine Spot... Now that you are returning to your respective homes you must be like unto ignited candles

DAS.1914-01-30 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_07.pdf#page=36] SW_v08#05 p.049x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_5]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause, @Shrines and Holy places, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @being a source of light; guidance

ABU0396

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-05-09

620

Persian

این چاه را بسته اند که مبادا سایرین از آبش استعمال کنند سبحان الله از مضرت بدیگران چه نتیجه

Many years ago this was a public well and the native women every morning and evening drew water. After a while the Germans made up their minds to take possession of it.

KHH1.233-234 (1.327)x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=264]

KHHE.344x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-05-09 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_14.pdf#page=55]

@stories; anecdotes, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence

ABU0402

Words to Fugeta, Dr. Esslemont et al, spoken on 1920-01-09

620

Amongst the proofs of the Blessed Beauty is this: That what he revealed in tablets about fifty years ago is accomplished today.

PN_1919 p078 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=78]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals, @duration of the Baha'i cycle; future divine revelations, @predictions and prophecies, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ABU0401

Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902

620

The Sun of Reality, by which we mean the Perfections of God, appears, like the physical sun, to change its position in the spiritual heavens relatively to us.

AELT.195-198 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/phelps_life_teachings_abbas_effendi.pdf#page=242]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @Manifestation of God as sun, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @outward and inward meanings, @symbolism, @literal interpretation

ABU0398

Words to the friends spoken around Dec. 1907

620

Persian

در زمان قدیم طوایف مختلفه بوده اند از جمله سامری ها که امروز نیستند و همچنین فریسیان

There were certain tribes in the old times, which no longer exist, such as Samaris or Pharisiyan.... These people believed that the Logos of that peerless Essence had been made flesh. That is, lahut had become nasut.

KHH1.029-031 (1.040-043) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=60]

KHHE.057-059 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf]

@interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @Christian doctrine and practice, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as mediator, @anthropomorphism

AB12113

610

mixed

در امور سیاسیه هیچ وقت مداخله ننمودیم زیرا حضرت بهاء الله بنص صریح ما را از

In political affairs we have never intervened, for Bahá'u'lláh hath, through the explicit text, forbidden us from [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0758 [https://www.bahai.org/r/292550126]

@East and West; communication between East and West, @unity of governments; political unity, @spiritual transformation, @historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @unity; oneness of humanity, @non-participation in politics

AB00396

610

mixed

ایها الفرع الکریم من السدره الرحمانیه قد قضت سنون و شهور بل مضت احقاب و دهور

O noble branch of the divine Lote-Tree! Years and months have passed away, nay, ages and epochs have elapsed [3.5s]

INBA21:060 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v021/?page=31] INBA55:355 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=357]

BRL_DAK#0770 [https://www.bahai.org/r/122346096] MKT1.178 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-177.html] TISH.367-369 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=362] ABDA.374x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/abda.pdf#page=382]

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for martyrs, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

AB00402

610

mixed

یا من ایده الله علی قدم راسخ فی عهده و میثاقه دستخطهای متعدد آنجناب واصل و بر

O thou whom God hath confirmed to stand with steadfast feet in His Covenant and Testament! Numerous letters from thee have been received [3.5s]... ...My sister, for a considerable period, that is, from the day of Baha'u'llah's ascension, had grown so thin and feeble, and was in such a weakened condition

BHKP_2#13 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BHKP_2.pdf]

BHK_2#13 [https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/bwc/BK/]

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB00401

610

mixed

یا من انجذب بنفحات الله قد تجلی جمال الله الابهی من سیناء الظهور مشرق النور

O thou who art enraptured by the fragrances of God! The Beauty of the Most Glorious One hath shone forth from the Sinai of Revelation, the Dawning-place of Light [3.5s]

MMK5#209 p.160 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-163.html] MMK6#167 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=125]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @firmness in the Covenant

AB00400

610

Persian

یا حبیبی و مونسی و انیسی مسطورات مختلفه متنوعه وارد و مضامین در نهایت

O my beloved, my companion and my intimate friend! Various and diverse letters have been received, and their contents are of the utmost [3.5s]

INBA88:209 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=243]

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @humility; meekness; lowliness

AB00398

610

Arabic

Tablet of Visitation for Thomas Breakwell

ایها المستبشر ببشارات الله قد وصلنی تحریرک الجدید و حمدت الله علی وصولک

O thou who art gladdened by the tidings of God! Thy latest letter hath reached me, and I have offered praise unto God for thy safe arrival [3.5s]... ...Grieve thou not over the ascension of my beloved Breakwell, for he hath risen unto a rose garden of splendors within the Abha Paradise

BRL_DAK#0187 [http://www.bahai.org/r/172006473] MNMK#040 p.126x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-124.html] MNMK#054 p.137x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-135.html] MMK1#158 p.182x [https://www.bahai.org/r/116762209] MMK1#159 p.184x [https://www.bahai.org/r/408635568] DSDS.110x

SWAB#158x [http://www.bahai.org/r/197343864] SWAB#159x [http://www.bahai.org/r/937160664] TAB.450-453 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA450] BWF.387-388x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] SW_v05#19 p.296-297 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_19] SW_v03#13 p.016 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_13] BSTW#043ax [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=56] BSTW#052kx [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=5]

L. Slott [https://youtu.be/e0s-Tvrlc7w]

@soul; spirit after death, @eulogies; reminiscences, @unity in diversity, @the human soul, @differences in human capacity, @consolation and comfort, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00397

610

Persian

ایها المختارون فیملکوت الابهی شکر کنید رب الجنود را که از آسمان غیب راکبا

O ye who are the chosen ones of the Abha Kingdom! Praise ye the Lord of Hosts for He, riding upon the clouds, hath come down to this world... O Thou loving Provider! These souls have hearkened

MKT3.092 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-92.html] MNMK#097 p.178 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-176.html] MMK1#017 p.033 [https://www.bahai.org/r/871473526] BCH.175 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=172] MJMJ2.016ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-17.html] MMG2#025 p.026x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-29.html]

SWAB#017 [http://www.bahai.org/r/595141765] BPRY.093x [http://www.bahai.org/r/191265409] BBBD.446-449

JYSEP Goodna [https://youtu.be/Gp_7x8_g_-U] Bass Adjustment [https://bassadjustment.bandcamp.com/track/strive-feat-jose-maria-fierro]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual transformation, @high station of the true believer, @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @universal peace; world unity, @return of Christ; second coming of Christ

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

AB00392

610

mixed

ای ناظر بملکوت ابهی خوشا حال نفوسی که بصرف فطرت منجذب الی الله گشتند

O thou who gazest upon the Kingdom of Abhá! Blessed indeed are those souls who, through the purity of their nature, have become attracted unto God [3.5s]

INBA72:031 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=34] INBA72:156 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v072/?page=159]

MMK2#315 p.230 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA2/swa2-232.html] AKHA_129BE #10 p.a [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_119BE #07 p.j [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AHB.133BE #07-08 p.66 TSAY.522 RHQM2.0638 (016x) (012x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=13] TISH.468-469x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=463] MAS5.165x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-165.html]

@sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @martyrs and martyrdom, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB00385

610

mixed

الهی الهی انی اتوسل بذیل کبریائک و اتعلق باهداب ردآء بهائک و اتضرع الیک

O my God, my God! I beseech Thee by the hem of Thy grandeur and cling to the fringes of the garment of Thy splendor, and I supplicate Thee [3.5s]

INBA89:222 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=225]

MMK3#129 p.090x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-92.html]

@high station of the true believer, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @praise and encouragement, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00391

610

mixed

ای عین الاحباء و زین الاودآء حمد کن خدا را که نهایت سیاحت یعنی خاتمه الالطاف فاتحه

O thou who art the essence of the beloved ones and the adornment of the pure-hearted! Render thanks unto God that the ultimate journey signifieth the culmination of bounties and the beginning [3.5s]

MKT4.084 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA4/ma4-84.html] MILAN.113 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/113.jpg]

AB00383

610

mixed

الحمد لله الذی اشرق بنور المیثاق علی الافاق و اظهر اسرار العهد فی حیز الشهود

Praise be unto God, Who hath caused the light of the Covenant to shine forth across the horizons and hath manifested the mysteries of the Testament in the realm of existence [3.5s]

MMK6#232 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=172]

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @firmness in the Covenant, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00384

610

mixed

اللهم یا ربی الرحمن انت الکریم و انت المنان انی اتضرع الیک باللسان و الجنان

O God, my Lord, the All-Merciful! Thou art the Gracious, Thou art the Bestower. With tongue and heart I implore Thee [3.5s]

INBA85:357 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=359]

BRL_DAK#0769 [https://www.bahai.org/r/630335582] MKT8.246x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-246.html] AKHA_134BE #07 p.272x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AKHA_106BE #09 p.04x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] YMM.038 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=46]

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @prayer for protection, @non-participation in politics, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00386

610

mixed

ای بنده یزدان آنچه مرقوم نموده بودید مفهوم و معلوم گردید حمد خدا را که دلالت

O servant of God! That which thou didst write was understood and comprehended. Praise be to God that guidance [3.5s]

YBN.075-076 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=80]

@growth of the Cause, @critique of Western values; culture, @spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics

AB00387

610

Persian

ای ثابت بر پیمان از شدت بلایا و محن و مصائب شدیده در نهایت ضعف بدن مختصر

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! From the intensity of tribulations, trials and grievous afflictions, the body is in utmost weakness [3.5s]

MMK5#023 p.016 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-19.html]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @call to action, @suffering and imprisonment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00388

610

Persian

ای ثابتان بر عهد و پیمان نامه شما رسید و نامهای مبارک شما یک یک ملاحظه گردید

O ye who are firm in the Covenant and the Testament! Your letter was received… O Divine Providence! This assemblage is composed of Thy friends who are attracted to Thy beauty

MKT3.088 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-88.html] MNMK#103 p.189 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-187.html] MMK1#068 p.100 [https://www.bahai.org/r/833135997] PYB#047 p.03x MJMJ2.021x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-22.html] MMG2#175 p.203x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-206.html] YHA2.560 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/684.pdf#page=17] NJB_v10#08 p.167 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_8]

SWAB#068 [http://www.bahai.org/r/567259757] BPRY.092x SW_v10#08 p.154-155 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_8] SW_v10#08 p.046 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_10/Issue_8]

C. Faizi [https://badasht.bandcamp.com/track/ray-of-light]

@Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @firmness in the Covenant, @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity, @light and darkness, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @spiritual transformation, @unity in diversity

AB00382

610

mixed

از حوادث تازه اینکه در مدینه کبیره فسق و فساد و فتنه و نفاق جمال الدین و شیخ

Recent events reveal that in the great city, immorality, corruption, sedition and hypocrisy [emanate from] Jamaluddin and the Shaykh [3.5s]

INBA55:284 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=286]

RHQM1.616-617 (751) (460-461x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/652.pdf#page=320] MAS5.223 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-223.html]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for governments and rulers, @trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

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

AB00390

610

Persian

ای طبیب ادیب اریب روات حدیث روایت کنند که نیر حجازی و آفتاب یثربی جمال محمد

O erudite and discerning physician! The narrators of sacred traditions recount that the splendor of the sun of Hijaz and the luminary of Yathrib are none other than the beauty of Muhammad [3.5s]

AVK3.478.14-481.12 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-482.html]

@health and healing; material and spiritual healing, @methods of teaching the Cause, @serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

AB11628

610

mixed

ای منادی پیمان فی الحقیقه ثابت و راسخی و ناطق و واقف نامه که به تاریخ چهاردهم

O herald of the Covenant! Truly thou art firm and steadfast, eloquent and knowledgeable. Thy letter dated the fourteenth [3.5s]

FRH.205-207 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/frh.pdf#page=203]

@spiritual transformation, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @unity; oneness of humanity, @thankfulness; gratitude, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0412

Address to the Baha'is at Hotel Plaza in Chicago, 1912-10-31

610

In Los Angeles and San Francisco great interest was manifested in the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh.... After His Holiness Christ, there were many who appeared who were instrumental

PUP#115 (p.381-383) [http://www.bahai.org/r/387094060] SW_v08#14 p.188-189 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_14] SW_v09#13 p.147-148 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_13] BSTW#052mx [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=5]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Christian doctrine and practice, @growth of the Cause, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @avoidance of Covenant-Breakers, @firmness in the Covenant

ABU0410

Address to the Baha'is at Unity Feast in West Englewood, 1912-06-29

610

This is a delightful gathering; you have come here with sincere intentions, and the purpose

NJB_v14#05 p.158n [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_5]

PUP#076 (p.213-215) [http://www.bahai.org/r/205834551]

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00394

Lawh-i-Mahfil-i-Shawr?

610

mixed

ای یاران رحمانی من در این ایام خبری پر روح و ریحان از آنسامان رسید که الحمد لله

O ye spiritual friends! In these days, most soul-uplifting tidings have reached from that region, for which praise be to God [3.5s]... ...the first condition is absolute love and harmony amongst the members of the assembly.

MKT3.505 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-505.html] MMK1#045 p.084x [https://www.bahai.org/r/568902986] MILAN.153 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/153.jpg] AKHA_134BE #14 p.548 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK3.409.04x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-413.html] AVK4.311x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-315.html] MMG2#373 p.416x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-419.html] HYB.094 YARD.054x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/yar-i-dirin.pdf#page=54]

SWAB#045x [http://www.bahai.org/r/172894792] BADM.022-023x [http://www.bahai.org/r/372462250] COC#0176x COC#1372x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_local_spiritual_assembly#1372] COC#1373x [http://bahai-library.com/compilation_local_spiritual_assembly#1373]

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @consultation, @The Holy Spirit, @unity; oneness of humanity, @non-participation in politics

ABU0405

Public address given on 1912-04-13

610

Persian

چند روز است من به نیویورک آمدم پیش از این به اروپا رفتم

It is a few days since my arrival in New York; but before coming to New York

KHTB2.013 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-15.html] NJB_v04#10 p.004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_10] BDA1.032n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-32.html]

PUP#007 (p.016-018) [http://www.bahai.org/r/966666045] SW_v03#07 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_7]

MHMD1.042 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=67]

@man's distinction from the animal, @power of the mind over nature, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @harmony of science and religion, @mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit

ABU0404

Public address to Congress of East-West Relations, spoken on 1912-04-20

610

Persian

امشب من نهایت سرور دارم که در همچو مجمع و محفلی وارد شدم من شرقی هستم

Tonight I am most happy, for I have presented myself to an audience like unto this

BRL_DAK#0711 [https://www.bahai.org/r/724920498] AMK.309-311 PYB#159 p.44 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/Periodicals/Payam_i_Bahai/159.PDF#page=44] DUR4.034x DUR1.100x MJMJ1.093x MMG2#178 p.206x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-209.html] MJH.038ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-39.html] KHF.033 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=36] KHTB2.030 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA2/ka2-32.html] BDA1.040n [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-40.html]

BRL_ATE#185x [https://www.bahai.org/r/169592534] PUP#014 (p.035-037) [http://www.bahai.org/r/467607021] SW_v03#03 p.008-009 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_3] SW_v15#08 p.235-236 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_15/Issue_8] SW_v19#03 p.087 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_19/Issue_3] ADMS#052 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abdul-baha-prayer-confirm-this-gathering/]

unknown [https://youtu.be/tLhy495rybk]

MHMD1.049 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=74]

@need for cooperation; solitary existence not possible, @unity of governments; political unity, @praise of Western values; culture, @unity; oneness of humanity, @suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00395

Some Answered Questions #059 Man's Comprehension of God

610

Persian

این مسئله را زمان فرصت لازم و در سر ناهار بیان مشکل است

This subject requires ample time, and to explain it at table will be difficult.

MFD#59 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-158.html] OOL.C022.59 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-14-fa]

SAQ#59 [http://www.bahai.org/r/326959006] BWF.321-323 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@Manifestation of God the only route to knowledge of God, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @immateriality; ineffability of soul; spirit, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @knowledge; recognition of God, @human reality created in the image of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror

AB00399

Some Answered Questions #062 The Infinite Perfections of Existence and the Progress of the Soul in the Next World

610

Persian

بدان که مراتب وجود متناهیست مرتبهء عبودیت مرتبهء نبوت و مرتبهء ربوبیت

Know that the degrees of existence are finite—the degrees of servitude, of prophethood and of Divinity

MFD#62 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-165.html] OOL.C022.62 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-17-fa]

SAQ#62 [http://www.bahai.org/r/795036722] BWF.328-330 [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] LOG#0684x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n684] LOG#0685x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n685]

@soul; spirit after death, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @prayer for the departed

ABU0408

Words spoken at Haifa Pilgrim House, 1920-10-29

610

Some souls appeared among the Jews, the people of Moses, who concealed their real motives

PN_1920 p033 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920.pdf#page=33] PN_1920_heh p005 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh.pdf#page=5] PN_1920_heh_haifa p064 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1920_heh_haifa.pdf#page=64]

@idolatry, @Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @education of children; moral education, @stories; anecdotes, @Shrines and Holy places, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture

ABU0411

Words spoken in 1911

610

In this monajotte that we have just listened to... Strive day and night and do whatever is possible that perchance you may wake

SW_v08#02 p.028 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_2] ADP.055-058 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55]

@transcending the material condition, @spiritual transformation, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization, @worldliness vs. other-worldliness, @call to action, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU0415

Words spoken in the house of Abdu'l-Baha in Feb 1910

610

Mein Bruder, du frägst viel auf einmal! Zweck und Ziel des menschlichen Leidens ist mannigfaltig, und wenn wir bis in die sinkende Nach

SDW v13#09 p.095-096 [https://file.bahai.media/0/02/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_13_Nr_09.pdf#page=4]

@tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering, @Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator, @spiritual transformation, @knowledge; recognition of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0446

Words spoken on 1913-06-06 in Paris

610

Persian

بواسطهٴ میرزا محیط خواست در کمال خفا نصف شب بحضور مبارک مشرّف شود چون این استدعای شاهزاده

He [Kayvan Mirza] wished to attain the presence of Baha'u'llah at midnight, through the intermediation of Mirza Muhit and in the utmost secrecy

BDA2.335-337 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS2/kbas2-343.html]

MHMD2.445-447

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @non-participation in politics, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

ABU0406

Words spoken on 1913-11-15 in Port Said

610

Pray that God may lighten his [Prof. Cheyne's] lamp day by day, cause His Kingdom to be established in the hearts

DAS.1913-11-15 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=130]

@suffering and imprisonment, @growth of the Cause, @stories; anecdotes, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0414

Words to Persian Baha'Is and others in Ridvan Garden, Apr 1910

610

Die Lehre Seiner Heiligkeit Muhammed, des gesegneten Prophecen wird gerade von den Okzidentalen (Europziern und Amerikanern) im Punkte der Vorausbestimmung

SDW v10#12 p.172-174 [https://file.bahai.media/b/bf/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_10_Nr_12.pdf#page=6]

@free will and predestination; fate, @justice and wrath of God, @episodes from the early history of Islam, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

ABU0409

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-22

610

Much that is written or said about Muhammad is pure fabrication. The reality is not stated, because it is misunderstood. The origin of the current opinion

DAS.1914-11-22

@rejection of Muhammad, @stories; anecdotes, @corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih, @episodes from the early history of Islam, @suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU0413

Words to the friends, spoken on 1921-11-19

610

Although you are here with these assembled friends and cannot speak with them.... When lovers meet it may be that they cannot exchange a single word

SW_v13#07 p.163-164 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_7] BSTW#482 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_451-485.pdf#page=70]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @love of God, @suffering and imprisonment, @spiritual communication; connections of the heart, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

ABU0407

Words to Thornton Chase spoken around 1900

610

It is said in the Gospels that 'ye will known them by their fruits'... The sacred Books of all nations speak of the possibility of the new birth of man. What does this mean?... The Blessed Perfection has likened the new birth, or resurrection, to iron placed in the fire...

PN_1900_heh p056 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1900_heh.pdf#page=56] PN_1907 p072 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1907.pdf#page=72] BSTW#194x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=79]

@spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @second birth, @spiritual baptism, @words vs deeds, @soul; spirit after death, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @spiritual transformation

AB12114

600

Persian

قریب پنجاه شصت سال پیش در زمانیکه آتش حرب در میان دول و ملل در نهایت اشتعال

Nearly fifty to sixty years ago, at a time when the flame of war between nations and peoples blazed with utmost intensity [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0755 [https://www.bahai.org/r/476087761]

@suffering and imprisonment, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @war and peace, @universal peace; world unity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @light and darkness, @unity in diversity

AB00413

600

mixed

ای یاران حقیقی الواح مسطوره و اوراق منشوره و اسماء مذکوره کل ببقعه مبارکه

O ye true friends! The letters ye wrote, the pages ye penned, and the names ye mentioned were all received in the Holy Land

INBA13:001 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=0] INBA59:272 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=274]

NURA#35 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#063 p.072 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-75.html] MSHR2.062x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH2/mash2-64.html]

LOTW#35 [http://www.bahai.org/r/808562149]

@praise and encouragement, @exhortations and counsels, @stories; anecdotes, @chastisement and requital, @Manifestation of God as sun, @call to action

AB00422

600

Persian

یاران روحانی من جناب محمود و احمد بعد از تبلیغ امرالله در اقلیم هند و تحمل

O my spiritual friends, the esteemed Mahmoud and Ahmad, after proclaiming the Cause of God in the realm of India and enduring [3.5s]

INBA84:433 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=436]

BRL_DAK#0776 [https://www.bahai.org/r/243912485]

@predictions and prophecies, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance, @praise and encouragement

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]

AB00418

600

Arabic

ایها المنجذب بتجلیات رحمانیه من الملکوت الاعلی انی بکل فرح فتحت کتابک

O thou who art attracted by the brilliant lights of the Merciful One, shining from the Supreme Kingdom!... As for the symbol of the cross

BRL_DAK#0708 [https://www.bahai.org/r/281168919]

TAB.596-599 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA596] LOG#1718x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1718] BSC.470 #881-882x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BLO_PT#214 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_tablets_home_circle]

@symbolism, @unity; oneness of humanity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

AB00417

600

mixed

ایها المجمع الروحانی انی ابتهل الی العتبه الرحمانیه ان یویدکم بنفحات مقدسه

O spiritual assembly! I beseech the divine Threshold of the All-Merciful to assist you with holy breathings [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0757 [https://www.bahai.org/r/292550120] MSHR5.413-414 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=409]

@Hands of the Cause, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB00416

600

Persian

ای یاران مهربان عبدالبهاء صبح است و از مقام اعلی روحی لتربته الفداء بحیفا

O ye loving friends of ‘Abdu’l-Baha! It is early morning and I have returned to Haifa from the Shrine of the Bab

NURA#27 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MKT3.199 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-199.html] AKHA_104BE #10 p.00اوّل [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AVK4.451ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-455.html] KHSH12.009 [https://bahai-library.com/kharman_adab_honar_12]

LOTW#27 [http://www.bahai.org/r/236140230] ADMS#065i01x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/passages-on-iran/]

@past, present and future of Iran, @martyrdom of the Bab, @Shrines and Holy places, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @growth of the Cause, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00415

600

mixed

ای یاران مهربان صبح است و عبدالبهاء جام صبوحی از باده محبت الله زده و در

O kind friends! It is dawn, and 'Abdu'l-Bahá hath quaffed the morning draught from the wine of the love of God, and [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0766 [https://www.bahai.org/r/322135751] MKT3.176 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-176.html] AHB.119BE #09 p.000 TABN.042a [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/627.pdf#page=42]

@forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @praise and encouragement, @growth of the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom

AB00414

600

mixed

ای یاران روحانی عبدالبهاء مدتی بود که از اختلاف و عدم ایتلاف احباء در مدینه

O spiritual friends of Abdu'l-Baha! For some time, the disunity and lack of harmony among the friends in the city [3.5s]... ...In every Dispensation the light of Divine Guidance has been focused upon one central theme

BLIB_Or.08117.024

MKT2.264 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-264.html] YHA1.378x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=380] NJB_v05#07 p.002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_7]

PDC.195x [http://www.bahai.org/r/219434013] WOB.036x [http://www.bahai.org/r/297586236]

@progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @unity; oneness of humanity, @suffering and imprisonment, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @banishments of Baha'u'llah, @consorting with all; being kind; loving to all

AB00411

600

Persian

ای سرگشته کوه و بیابان در راه یار مهربان نامه شما بعد از رجوع از کالیفورنیا

O thou wanderer over mountain and desert in the Path of the kind Beloved! Thy letter, after thy return from California

MMK3#002 p.001x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-3.html] MMG2#199 p.227x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-230.html] NJB_v11#08 p.136 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_8]

SW_v11#15 p.260-264 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_11/Issue_15]

@divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @unity; oneness of humanity, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @newspapers and the media; publications

AB00403

600

mixed

اللهم یا الهی انک لتعلم و تری و تشاهد و تشهد الشدائد التی تتابعت علی عبدک

O my God, my Lord! Thou verily knowest and seest, observest and bearest witness to the tribulations that have successively befallen Thy servant [3.5s]

MMK5#139 p.108 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-111.html] MSHR5.053x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=49]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

AB00404

600

mixed

الهی الهی قد خلقت نفوسا مقدسه منجذبه الی ملکوت جمالک و نفثت فیها بروح القدس

O my God, my God! Thou hast created sanctified souls drawn to the kingdom of Thy beauty, and breathed into them the Holy Spirit [3.5s]

MKT8.004 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA8/ma8-4.html]

@call to action, @spiritual transformation, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00405

600

mixed

ای امین ربانی در عالم ایجاد جمیع کائنات در نهایت ارتباط و از این ارتباط تعاون

O thou trustee of the Lord! In the world of being all created things are in the most intimate connection with each other

INBA16:163 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v016/?page=165]

BRL_DAK#0716 [https://www.bahai.org/r/961304393] MKT1.459 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-458.html] NJB_v04#17 p.004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_17]

SW_v01#04 p.013-015 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_4] SW_v05#10 p.145-146 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_10] SW_v06#17 p.141-142 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_17] BW_v01p061 [http://dl.bahai.org/bahai-world/bahai-year-book-vol01-1925-1926.pdf#page=61] BNE.187x [https://www.bahai.org/library/other-literature/publications-individual-authors/bahaullah-new-era/1#773046298]

@love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being

AB00406

600

mixed

ای بنده آستان الهی آنچه بجناب منشادی مرقوم نموده بودی رسید و چون نظر بحکمتی

O servant of the Divine Threshold! That which thou didst write to Manshádí hath been received, and in view of a wisdom [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0765 [https://www.bahai.org/r/322135758] AVK3.196.14x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-200.html] QT108.074-075 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=74]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @war and peace, @nationalism; love of country, @religion as source of love and unity, @love and unity, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

AB00408

600

mixed

ای ثابتان پیمان حضرت اسم الله المهدی علیه بهاء الله الابهی و علیه ثناء الله

O ye steadfast ones in the Covenant of His Holiness Ismu'llah al-Mihdi, upon him be the Most Glorious Glory of God and upon him be the praise of God [3.5s]... ...O Thou Who art Self-Sufficient! Set those birds of the meadow on their flight; make those nightingales of the rose-garden

MJMJ3.057x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA3/mma3-59.html] MMG2#244 p.274x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-277.html] YBN.033-034 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/ybn.pdf#page=38]

ADMS#234x [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/ab00408_excerpt/]

@prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @unity in diversity, @call to action, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @spiritual transformation, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow

AB00409

600

Persian

ای دو حقیقت جو نامه شما رسید و بر مضمون اطلاع حاصل گشت مکاتیبیکه از پیش

O ye two seekers after truth! Your letter was received and its contents noted. As for the letters ye had previously sent, not all were received

MNMK#150 p.279 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-277.html] MMK1#163 p.187 [https://www.bahai.org/r/217505126]

SWAB#163 [http://www.bahai.org/r/128333294] LOG#0692x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=1#n692] SW_v02#05 p.003-004 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_5] SW_v14#01 p.036-037 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_1]

@soul; spirit after death, @realms of being; three realms; five realms, @status of material wealth; wealth and poverty, @the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @unity; oneness of humanity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00410

600

Persian

ای زجاجات سراج وهاج پیمان حقائق مقدسه که ثابت میثاق و مقتبس از اشراقند

O ye lamps enkindled with the resplendent light of the Covenant, ye sacred realities that are steadfast in the Testament and illumined by its effulgence [3.5s]

MKT3.366b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-366.html]

@praise and encouragement, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God

AB00412

600

mixed

ای منادی پیمان نامه ای که بجناب منشادی مرقوم نموده بودید ملاحظه گردید و بدقت

O herald of the Covenant! The letter which thou hadst addressed to Jináb-i-Manshádí was noted and carefully perused [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0764 [https://www.bahai.org/r/815660795] MMK5#106 p.086 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-89.html] AMK.011-015 AVK4.442ax [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-446.html] SFI06.013bx [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_06.pdf#page=13]

@status of kings; future of monarchy, @relationship between government and people, @non-participation in politics, @constitutional revolution in Iran, @obedience to and respect for government authority

AB00407

600

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه شما رسید و مضمون مشحون باحساسات روحانیه بود و مبشر بان

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter was received, and its contents were replete with spiritual sentiments and heralded glad tidings [3.5s]

SFI01.059 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_01.pdf#page=59] MSHR1.081x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH1/mash1-83.html] YMM.195x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=203]

@spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @interpretation of dreams and visions, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @wisdom [hikmat], @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0419

Material and Spiritual Progress: Words spoken on 1911-11-02 in Paris

600

Persian

جسم انسان در هوای خوش منتعش میشود حیات انسان تجدد می یابد قلب مسرور میشود

How beautiful the weather is today, the sky is clear, the sun shines, and the heart of man is made glad thereby!

KHAB.110 (120) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.093 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-95.html] KHTP.069

PT#19 p.057 [http://www.bahai.org/r/283587078]

@material and spiritual existence; two books, @mission of the Manifestation of God in the world, @forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @The Holy Spirit

ABU0425

Public address given on 1912-11-15

600

Persian

یوم ظهور مظاهر مقدسهٴ الهیه ربیع الهی است و بهار معنوی که اشجار نفوس انسانی را سبز و خرم نماید

The day of the Manifestation of God is the divine and spiritual springtime when the trees of human souls become green and flourishing

BDA1.375.10x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-375.html]

MHMD1.394x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=419]

@divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual springtime, @spiritual transformation, @station of the Manifestation of God, @symbolism

AB00419

Some Answered Questions #033 The Return of the Prophets

600

Persian

جمال مبارک در ایقان بیان اینمطلب را مفصل و مشروح مرقوم فرموده‌اند

Baha'u'llah has set forth a lengthy and detailed explanation of this matter in the Book of Certitude.

MFD#33 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-98.html] OOL.C022.33 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-2-18-fa]

SAQ#33 [http://www.bahai.org/r/779151961]

@return of the Manifestations of God, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @John the Baptist, @cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds, @quotation from or interpretation of the Bible

AB00420

Some Answered Questions #064 The Station of Man and His Progress after Death

600

Persian

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]

ABU0416

The Eleventh Principle—The Power of the Holy Spirit: Words spoken on 1911-11-18 in Paris

600

Persian

Tablet addressed to the Bahá'ís of Mosul

از جمله تعالیم حضرت بهاء الله این است بشر هر قدر ترقی بکند باز محتاج بنفثات

In the teaching of Baha'u'llah, it is written: 'By the Power of the Holy Spirit alone is man able to progress, for the power of man is limited and the Divine Power is boundless.'... Turn your faces away from the contemplation

KHAB.179 (190) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.179 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-181.html] KHTP.126

ADJ.046x [http://www.bahai.org/r/595335222] PT#51 p.172 [http://www.bahai.org/r/630688427] BSC.452 #825x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v03#02 p.006-007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_2] SW_v16#06 p.0541 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_16/Issue_6] SW_v08#08 p.102 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_8]

@The Holy Spirit, @Greek philosophers; Greek civilization, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @spiritual transformation

ABU0424

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-21

600

I pray that this Fete [Naw-Ruz] be blessed to all the friends in America! May each one of them become a mighty teacher... When I was in Bagdad I had a coat

DAS.1913-03-21

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

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

ABU0421

Words spoken on 1912-12-21 in London

600

Persian

دیشب تشخیص ولادت حضرت مسیح بود فی الحقیقه در نهایت اتقان بود ولکن محل عبرت

Last night, there was a theatrical performance about the birth of Jesus Christ. It was truly skillful to the utmost

KHF.187 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=190] KHAB.393 (398) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.074 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-76.html] NJB_v05#17 p.001 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_17]

ADMS#235 [https://adibmasumian.com/translations/abu0421/]

@literal interpretation, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @outward and inward meanings, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @heedlessness and ignorance of the people

ABU0418

Words spoken on 1914-07-09 in Haifa

600

The quintessence of the matter is that under the protection of the Blessed Perfection we have spent our days in this Most Great Prison.

DAS.1914-07-09 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_11.pdf#page=33]

@suffering and imprisonment, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

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)

ABU3647

Words spoken on 1919-12-26

600

Persian

تمام آن الواح از لسان جمال مبارک است در اواخر ایام مبارک یک نفر از احباب

All of those Tablets were revealed by the lips of the Blessed Beauty. During the final blessed days [of Baha'u'llah], one of the friends asked [the same question] of Mírza Áqa Jan

ISA.025-027 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/G-L/G/guftar/isa025.jpg]

ISAE.1919-12-26 [http://bahai-library.com/isfahani_rabbani_with_abdul-baha]

@authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge

ABU0423

Words to Habib Mu'ayyad, spoken on 1915-05-13

600

Persian

من میخواستم یک سری بشما بگویم در خانه ممکن نشد لهذا اینجا میگویم و آن اینست که من اینروزها در خطر عظیم هستم

I have wanted to share a secret with you but was unable to do so [earlier] at My home and, therefore, I disclose it now: These days, I am in the utmost danger. Perhaps I will be martyred.

KHH1.237-239 (1.332-334) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=268]

KHHE.350-353 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0428

Words to Latimer, Esslemont, Randall et al, spoken on 1919-11-26

600

It is mentioned in the Tablets of the Blessed Beauty. It is recorded in the Book of the Covenant and in the explicit texts of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Clearly He says

PN_1919 p189 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=189] LAT.138-141 [https://bahai-library.com/latimer_light_world]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @unity; oneness of humanity, @firmness in the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @contention and conflict, @love and unity, @role of the Covenant in preserving unity

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

ABU0422

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-08

600

Persian

من حالم خوبست مرضی در کار نیست فقط اعصاب است ... امیدوارم خاتمه حیاتم چون مشک معطر

Of what use is good health to me? I want to wholly sacrifice myself... I wish the end of my life to be musk-laden. That is, I wish to drink from the chalice of martyrdom

KHH1.206-208 (1.289-291) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=237]

KHHE.302-305 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1915-04-08 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=75] BSR_v13 p.097 [https://bahai-library.com/rabbani_abdulbaha_abu_sinan]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0420

Words to students of Beirut university, spoken on 1914-08-31

600

Persian

خوب مجلسی است بسیار محفل روحانی است مجلسی است مرتب و منظم در اینعالم مجمعهای

This is a delightful gathering. It is very spiritual and is well-organized and orderly. Many gatherings are held in the world

MAS5.135 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-135.html] KHF.279 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1700.pdf#page=282] KHAB.452 (453) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB3.105 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA3/ka3-107.html] KHH1.282-284 (1.393-396) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=313]

KHHE.407-409 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-08-31 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_12.pdf#page=25] STAB#057 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=57]

@Christ; Christianity, @selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @unity of thought and belief, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU0427

Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-10-20

600

You are very welcome, very welcome, very welcome! ...And the purpose of being a Baha'i is this, that man should be adorned with all the virtues of the world of humanity.

BSTW#155a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=9] ECN.143+176 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=143]

@firmness in the Covenant, @characteristics and conduct of true believers, @growth of the Cause

ABU0431

590

Persian

جمال پاشا کوهی از غرور بود هر کجا میرفت دار بپا میکرد و هر که را میخواست

Jamal Pasha was as a mountain of pride; whithersoever he went, he raised the gallows, and whomsoever he desired, he condemned [3.5s]

ASAT3.042-045 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=23]

@humor; jokes, @oneness; unity of religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @wisdom [hikmat], @stories; anecdotes

AB12089

590

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی و مبدعی و مبدای و حرزی و موئلی انت الفائض بانوار الحب

Glorified art Thou, O my God, my Creator, my Origin, my Protector and my Refuge! Thou art the One Who sheddeth the effulgent rays of love [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0471 [http://www.bahai.org/r/705758685]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @love of God

AB12115

590

Persian

ای ادیب دبستان الهی مدتیست که نامه مرقوم نگشت از کثرت احزان و آلام و محن

O refined teacher in the divine school! For some time, no letter hath been written, owing to the multitude of sorrows, pains and tribulations [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0739 [https://www.bahai.org/r/525303288]

@suffering and imprisonment, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @consolation and comfort, @excellence; distinction, @the power of words; of speech

AB00435

590

mixed

ای یاران باوفای جمال ابهی در این غوغا و ضوضا که بیخردان برپا نمودند در مشکلات

O faithful friends of the Abha Beauty! In this tumult and clamor that the witless ones have raised amidst tribulations [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0046 [http://www.bahai.org/r/656182094] MKT9.226 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=114] MMK6#132 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=99] SFI18.015-016 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_18.pdf#page=15]

@loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

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

AB00436

590

mixed

ای یاران حقیقی عبدالبهاء و اماء رحمن در ایندم که در بوستانی مانند باغ ارم با

O true companions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and handmaidens of the All-Merciful! In this moment, when within a garden like unto the Paradise of Eram [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0750 [https://www.bahai.org/r/184492884] MKT7.226 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-230.html] AMK.135-138 AMK.145-148

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00437

590

Arabic

ایا نسمات الالطاف و ایا نفحات قدس الاسرار هبی الی اشرف الاوطان بقعه الرحمن

O breezes of divine favors and O holy fragrances of mysteries, waft to the noblest of lands, the sacred spot of the All-Merciful [3.5s]

INBA87:494 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=496] INBA52:519 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=521]

BRL_DAK#0740 [https://www.bahai.org/r/525303283] KHAF.070 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=70]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @spiritual transformation, @praise and encouragement, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant, @martyrs and martyrdom

AB00438

590

O thou who art attracted by the Fragrances of God! Give thanks unto God for having revealed unto thee, in visions, the mysteries of His Kingdom

TAB.678-681 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA678] LOG#1614x [http://bahai-library.com/hornby_lights_guidance_2.html&chapter=4#n1614] PN_1903 p005 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1903.pdf#page=5]

@interpretation of dreams and visions, @symbolism of color and light, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @meaning; importance of dreams and visions, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @station of the Manifestation of God, @angels

AB00439

590

Arabic

ایتها المنجذبه بنفحات ریاض المیثاق الناطقه بالثناء علی نیر الافاق اعلمی بانی

O thou who art attracted to the Fragrances of the Garden of the Covenant and art speaking the praise of the Orb of the Universe!

INBA89:129b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=132]

TAB.283-286 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA283]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @predictions and prophecies, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00442

590

Trk

چوق سودیکم یارانم حضرت کبریانن الطاف جلیله سنه مظهریتنزی هر زمان جان و یورکدن

O my dearly-loved companions! In every moment, with heart and soul, ye are the recipients of the sublime favors of the Lord of Grandeur [3.5s]

TSAY.241-243

@religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

AB00443

590

mixed

حمدا لمن ادار اقداح الهدی فی محفل اهل الوفاء و سقاهم خمر العطاء فثملوا من

Praise be unto Him Who hath passed round the goblets of guidance in the assembly of the faithful, and given them to drink of the wine of bounty until they were intoxicated [3.5s]

MMK4#082 p.094 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-97.html]

@spiritual transformation, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for nearness to God, @martyrs and martyrdom, @wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

AB00445

590

mixed

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی ترانی تحت مخالب سباع کاسره و براثن ذاب ضاریه و هجوم

Glorified art Thou, O my God! Thou beholdest me beneath the claws of ravenous beasts and the talons of fierce wolves [3.5s]

INBA13:100 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=50]

@suffering and imprisonment, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @prayer for protection, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00446

590

mixed

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]

AB00448

590

O thou who art esteemed in the Threshold of the Almighty! Praise thou God... Thou hast written concerning the impersonality of the Divinity. Personality is in the Manifestation of the Divinity... As to the question whether the souls will recognize each other

TAB.203-206 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA203] BWF.367-367x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] BSC.482 #921-922x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SDW v01#03 p.046-047 [https://de.bahai.works/Sonne_der_Wahrheit/Jahrgang_1/Heft_3] NRMM.170-173 [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=zPYdAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA170] BSTW#043a-043b [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=56]

@soul; spirit after death, @nearness to God, @nearness and remoteness, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror

AB00432

590

mixed

ای یادگار آن دو مرحوم مغفور محترم نامه شما رسید و بی نهایت سبب فرح و سرور

O thou remnant of those two distinguished departed souls! Thy letter was received and brought infinite joy and gladness

BLIB_Or.08117.056

NURA#14 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#009 p.006 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-9.html] KHMT.224-225x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KHMT.pdf] MAS5.070 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-70.html] MSHR3.146x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/MASH3/mash3-148.html]

LOTW#14 [http://www.bahai.org/r/391229845]

@autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @growth of the Cause

AB00434

590

mixed

ای یاران الهی و اماء رحمان جناب سررشته دار سررشته ای بدست داد تا احبای الهی

O Friends of God and Handmaids of the Merciful! His honour Sarrishtih-dar laid the foundation so that the friends of God may strive with the utmost vigour

BRL_DAK#0749 [https://www.bahai.org/r/184492889] MKT1.297x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-296.html] MKT9.222 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/577.pdf#page=112] AMK.019-020 MJMJ2.046x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA2/mma2-47.html] MMG2#086 p.095x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-98.html]

TEW.021-023 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EK1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false]

@praise and encouragement, @love and unity, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @call to action, @growth of the Cause, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @obedience to and respect for government authority, @non-participation in politics, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00424

590

mixed

الهی الهی تقدست حقیقت وحدانیتک عن الصعود و النزول و تنزهت شمس احدیتک عن الطلوع

O God! O God! Verily, verily the reality of Thy Oneness is sanctified above ascent or descent

INBA89:074 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=77]

AMIN.053-058 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ganjiniy-i-khususiy-i-haj-amin.pdf]

SW_v01#07 p.001-003 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_1/Issue_7]

@growth of the Cause, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB00425

590

mixed

ای بنده درگاه جمال مبارک نامه مورخ به ۲۲ جون ۱۹۰۹ واصل گردید الحمد لله مکاتیب

O servant of the Threshold of the Blessed Beauty! Thy letter dated 22 June 1909 was received. Praise be to God that correspondence [3.5s]... ...As to Mr. Robert [Turner], the news of his ascension saddened the hearts. He was in truth most devoted

BRL_DAK#0138 [http://www.bahai.org/r/857246545] AOTY.055x YIK.089-091 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=98]

BRL_ATE#098x [http://www.bahai.org/r/765991725] BLO_PN#010 [https://bahai-library.com/gail_arches_years]

@prayer for the departed, @martyrs and martyrdom, @eulogies; reminiscences, @race unity; racial issues

AB00426

590

mixed

ای بنده صادق جمال مبارک نامه شما رسید که بجهت آقا مهدی ارسال نموده بودی نامه

O thou sincere servant of the Blessed Beauty! Thy letter, which thou hadst dispatched on behalf of Aqa Mahdi, hath been received [3.5s]

MMK4#164 p.180x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-183.html] RHQM2.0906-907 (330) (205-206x) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=147]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @firmness in the Covenant, @personal instructions

AB00427

590

mixed

ای ثابتان بر میثاق نیر اعظم اشراق چون از افق عراق طلوع فرمود و پرتوی نورانی از

O ye who stand fast and firm in the Covenant! No sooner had the Most Great Luminary of the world risen above the horizon of Iraq

NURA#25 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#036 p.039 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-42.html] MSHR4.139-140 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=135]

LOTW#25 [http://www.bahai.org/r/744644046]

@rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @growth of the Cause, @wisdom [hikmat], @rejection, opposition and persecution, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @predictions and prophecies

AB00428

590

mixed

ای جام سرشار محبت الله دو نامه از شما پی در پی وارد و هنوز فرصت قرائت بجان

O brimming chalice of the love of God! Two letters from thee have arrived in swift succession, and as yet no opportunity hath been found to peruse them [3.5s]

MMK6#349 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=256]

@methods of teaching the Cause, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00429

590

mixed

ای حضرت حکیم شریک و سهیم من و در عبودیت آستان مقدس قرین و صدیق من صعود حضرت

O esteemed and wise one, my partner and companion, and in servitude at the Sacred Threshold, my comrade and confidant, the ascension [3.5s]

QT105.1.324 YQAZ.140-141 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/yaran-i-qazvin_munjadhiban-i-jamal-i-mubin.pdf]

@humor; jokes, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @wisdom [hikmat]

AB00430

590

Persian

از حقيقت سؤال نموده بوديد . حقيقت کلمة اللّه است که محيی عالم انسانی است کوران را بينا کند

O seeker of the Kingdom! Your letter has arrived and its contents became known. You asked: What is Truth? ...As to progress after death: know that after death it is the divine world. Progress is possible, but it depends upon the generosity of God...

MMK3#111 p.074x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA3/swa3-76.html] YMM.256x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=264] YMM.384x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/326.pdf#page=392] VUJUD.103.20x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf]

BSC.494 #954x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSTW#139 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_101-150.pdf#page=75] VUJUDE.189x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf]

@suffering; rejection of Christ, @evolution; human evolution, @soul; spirit after death, @East and West; communication between East and West, @universality of the Cause, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @love of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion

AB00431

590

Persian

ای منجذب بنفحات ریاض ملکوت نامه روحانی قرایت شد و مضامین محبت... ای پروردگار مستمندانیم مرحمتی کن و فقیرانیم از بحر غنا نصیبی بخش

O maidservant of God! There are two kinds of disease, spiritual and physical....Lord! Pitiful are we, grant us Thy favour; poor, bestow upon us a share... As to thy question regarding palmistry

INBA75:052x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v075/?page=58] NLAI_BH_AB.005b [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NLAI.BH_AB_misc.pdf#page=5]

BRL_DAK#0953 [https://www.bahai.org/r/563072422] MKT1.487ax [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-486.html] MKT2.093 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-93.html] MILAN.063 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/ab/M-R/M/milani/063.jpg] AVK3.025.16x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-29.html] AVK3.365.13x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-369.html] DUR2.129x MJMJ1.056x MMG2#307 p.344x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-347.html] MJH.015x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAI/mmai-16.html]

BPRY.022-023x [http://www.bahai.org/r/318634086] BSC.429 #777 [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] SW_v13#12 p.332x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_12] SW_v08#18 p.229x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_18] BP1926.020-021x BSTW#002x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=3] BSTW#183x [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=59] BSTW#369ax [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_351-400.pdf#page=32]

The Dutch Youth [https://youtu.be/WooEERIgeNY] Reza & Anthony [https://youtu.be/VdjqEEgpWi0] E. Mensah [https://youtu.be/XZgSBVGnL_k]

@The Holy Spirit, @spiritual transformation, @interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @prayer for prosperity

AB00447

Commentary on the Fig and the Olive

590

mixed

و التین و الزیتون ایت کریمه نک دقایق معانیسندن سوال بیورلمشدر معلوم عالیلریدر

Thou hast inquired about the subtle meanings of the blessed verse “By the Fig and the Olive.”

MJT.146 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_alvah_munajat-hayeh_turki]

BLO_PT#128 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_alkan_fig_olive]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar], @symbolism, @literal interpretation, @outward and inward meanings, @mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit

AB00444

Lawh-i-Ayat (Tablet of the Signs)

590

Arabic

Lawh-i-Ayat (Tablet of the Signs)

سبحان من انشا الوجود و ابدع کل موجود و بعث المخلصین مقاما محمود و اظهر الغیب

Praise be to Him Who hath made the world of being, and hath fashioned all that is, Him Who hath raised up the sincere to a station of honour

INBA13:398 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=199] INBA55:229 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=231] INBA59:148 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=150] INBA88:051 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=85] UMich962.092-094 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.047-051 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0958 [https://www.bahai.org/r/141325438] MKT1.137 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-136.html] MNMK#021 p.099 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-97.html] MMK1#004 p.013 [https://www.bahai.org/r/893808927] AKHA_124BE #02-03 p.v [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] BCH.130 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/bch.pdf#page=127] DLH2.223 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/729.pdf#page=114] OOL.C008 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw08-ar]

SWAB#004 [http://www.bahai.org/r/167123072] SW_v09#03 p.032-034 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_3] DWN_v3#08 p.070-073 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925] STYLE.043x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/suheil_bushrui_style_of_aqdas.pdf]

@chastisement and requital, @prophecy and fulfillment, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @suffering and imprisonment, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @power of the Manifestation of God, @praise and encouragement

ABU0437

Public address given on 1912-07-01

590

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

AB00440

Some Answered Questions #050 Spiritual Proofs of the Origin of Man

590

Persian

این دلائل که بر اصلیت نوع انسان اقامه نمودیم ادله‌های عقلی بود

The arguments we have adduced thus far for the originality of the human species have been rational ones.

MFD#50 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-141.html] OOL.C022.50 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-05-fa]

SAQ#50 [http://www.bahai.org/r/266110917] BWF.310-311x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up]

@evolution; human evolution

AB00441

Some Answered Questions #070 Free Will and its Limits

590

Persian

Tablet to the Central Organization for a Durable Peace, The Hague (Lawh-i-Hague)

این مسئله از مهمات مسائل الهیه است و بسیار غامض است

This is one of the most important questions of divinity and it is most abstruse.

MFD#70 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-177.html] OOL.C022.70 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-25-fa]

SAQ#70 [http://www.bahai.org/r/767338384]

@free will and predestination; fate, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB00423

Tablet to the Hague II

590

Persian

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

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

ABU0436

Words spoken at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-06-11

590

The essence of the intention is that I wish you to pray for me and I will pray for you.

SW_v04#02 p.040-041 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_2]

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @martyrs and martyrdom, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @stories; anecdotes, @apostles; early disciples of Christ, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause, @idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others

ABU0435

Words spoken in 1912 in the United States

590

All who stand up in the cause of God will be persecuted and misunderstood

COC#0308x SW_v04#05 p.088-089 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_5]

@suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @firmness in the Covenant, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

ABU0434

Words spoken on 1913-11-10 in Port Said

590

About 38 years ago a few Hajis who were natives of Yazd came to Acca. On their way they were stripped clean

DAS.1913-11-10 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_05.pdf#page=109]

@past, present and future of Iran, @goodly deeds; actions, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0433

Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905

590

Today we will speak about Obedience! The Manifestation of God is a perfect example... Real obedience and real sacrifice are identical - absolute readiness to follow and

SW_v08#05 p.060x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_5] SW_v08#17 p.221-222x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_17] TDLA.048-051 [https://archive.org/stream/tendaysinlighta00illgoog#page/n54/mode/2up] BLO_PN#104 [https://bahai-library.com/grundy_ten_days_akka]

@servitude; submission to God; repentance, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God

ABU0432

Words to Ramona Brown, Marie Barr and Betty Vent, spoken on 1912-10-24

590

Persian

شکر کنید خدا را که فیض الهی بشما رسیده شمس حقیقت بر شما تابیده و آب حیوان و حیات آسمانی

Thank God that the divine bounty has reached you, that the Sun of Truth is shining upon you and that the water of everlasting life has been provided for you.

BDA1.328.06 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KBAS1/kbas1-328.html]

MHMD1.346-347 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MHMD.pdf#page=371] MAB.079-080 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAB.pdf#page=104]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @the power of words; of speech, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @The Holy Spirit

ABU1693

Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-10-20

590

Praise be to God! That this city is progressive; that it is adorned with the existence of the believers... The deceased, his honor Mr. Chase, was a blessed soul; he was a holy reality.

SW_v04#13 p.225-226x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_4/Issue_13] BSTW#155e [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_151-200.pdf#page=9] ECN.145+182 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=145]

@praise and encouragement, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @prayer for spiritual recognition, @eulogies; reminiscences

ABU0451

580

I pray for your health and happiness. Consider the distance I have traveled and reflect on the great desire.... Be pure--to be pure is to be selfless

SW_v07#18 p.185x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_7/Issue_18] ADP.047-050 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @martyrs and martyrdom, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @Mary Magdalene, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @presence of; reunion with God, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @stories; anecdotes

AB00457

580

Persian

Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Relation between Science and Religion, A

ای کنیز عزیز الهی نامه شما رسید از گلشن معانی رایحه معطری استشمام گردید در

O cherished handmaiden of God! Your letter was received, and from its rose-garden of inner meanings a fragrant perfume was inhaled [3.5s]... ...Concerning the question of death, know that the spirit is abstracted and sanctified

MKT3.172 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-172.html] MMK6#424 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=311] VUJUD.125x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf] VUJUD.102-103x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Malakut-i-Vujud.pdf]

SW_v14#02 p.037x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_14/Issue_2] PN_1911 p008x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=8] PN_1911 p010x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=10] BLO_PT#107 [https://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_brown_science_religion] VUJUDE.181x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf] VUJUDE.190x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_kingdom_of_existence.pdf]

@relationship of the soul to the body, @harmony of science and religion, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @the human soul, @material and spiritual existence; two books

AB00464

580

Persian

یا من هو سر ابیه و حب ربه الابهی دو قطعه رسائل واصل و جواب ارسال میشود در

O thou who art the mystery of thy father and the love of thy Most Glorious Lord! Two letters have been received and an answer shall be dispatched [3.5s]

INBA55:438x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=440]

MMK5#150 p.116 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-119.html]

@suffering and imprisonment, @permission for visit; pilgrimage, @wisdom [hikmat], @humility; meekness; lowliness, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00463

580

Arabic

سبحانک اللهم یا الهی تری هجوم الاغبیاء علی الاصفیاء و تعرض الزنماء بالخلص من

Glorified art Thou, O my God! Thou beholdest the onslaught of the ignorant upon the chosen ones, and the assaults of the treacherous upon the pure [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0360 [http://www.bahai.org/r/919848227] AYBY.371 #057 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-380.html] MUH2.0897 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/285.pdf#page=99]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

AB00462

580

mixed

رب و رجائی انادیک فی العشی و الابکار و بطون اللیالی و الاسحار و ادعوک بقلبی

O Lord, my Hope! I call upon Thee at eventide and at dawn, through the watches of night and at daybreak, and with my heart I supplicate Thee [3.5s]

MKT3.273 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-273.html] ASAT5.259 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/431.pdf#page=135] SAAF.367x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/saaf.pdf#page=367]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB00461

580

mixed

ایها الفرع الکریم من سدره السیناء قد قضت السنون و الشهور بل مضت الاحقاب

O noble branch of the Sinaitic Tree! Years and months have passed away, nay, ages have elapsed [3.5s]

INBA13:011b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=6] INBA59:127 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v059/?page=129]

MKT2.194 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA2/ma2-194.html] YHA1.398x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=400]

@call to action, @chastisement and requital, @prayers (general or uncategorized), @firmness in the Covenant, @unity; oneness of humanity, @service to others; to the Cause of God

AB00460

580

Arabic

ایها الزائر لمطاف الارواح المخلص فی دین الله طوبی لام ولدتک و طوبی لثدی رضعت لبنه

O visitant to the Resort of spirits (who are) sincere in the Religion of God! Blessed is the mother who bore thee

UMich962.120-122 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.061-065 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

MKT1.127 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-126.html] MNMK#020 p.097 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMAB/mmab-95.html] ASAT3.233 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/429.pdf#page=118] AVK2.175.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK2/ak2-176.html]

TAB.114-118 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA114] BWF.370-371x [https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up] BSC.447 #815-816x [http://bahai-library.com/compilations/bahai.scriptures/] BSTW#273a [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=41] BSTW#276f [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_251-300.pdf#page=47]

@degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @spiritual transformation, @the cross and the trinity, @John the Baptist

AB00459

580

mixed

ای یاران روحانی امروز جمیع اهالی ایران باید در کمال همت و غیرت در خیر دولت

O spiritual friends! Today must all the inhabitants of Iran, with the utmost determination and zeal, work for the good of the government [3.5s]

MMK5#107 p.086 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-89.html] SFI06.011a [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_06.pdf#page=11]

@past, present and future of Iran, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

AB00456

580

Persian

ای طائف مطاف ملا اعلی الحمد لله بانچه نهایت آمال مقربین است فائز گشتی و بظل

O thou who circlest round the gathering-place of the Concourse on High! Praise be to God that thou hast attained unto that which is the ultimate aspiration of them that are nigh unto Him, and beneath the shadow [3.5s]

INBA85:004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=6]

PYB#043 p.12

@characteristics and conduct of true believers, @prayer for the departed, @teaching the Cause; call to teach

AB00455

580

Persian

ای دوست محترم مهربان مدتی است که بهیچوجه از آن یار دیرین خبری نرسیده و نور

O revered kind friend, For a long time no news at all has come from that friend of many years... Although the line of amity is unbroken and heartfelt attachment endures, what came to pass

CMB_F66#19a

BRL_DAK#0586 [https://www.bahai.org/r/554698496] MAS9.094 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS9/mas9-95.html] MSHR5.040-041 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=36] MSHR5.379ax [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=375] YHA1.183-184 (1.377) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/686.pdf#page=185]

EGBBF.104-105x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/balyuzi_browne_bahai_faith.pdf]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @fairmindedness; personal justice [insaf], @suffering; rejection of Christ, @praise of Western values; culture, @independent investigation of truth; reality

AB00454

580

mixed

ای ثابتان ای راسخان در روز غوغا و ضوضاء که جمعی بدون بینه و برهان هجوم بمحل

O ye steadfast ones! O ye firm ones! On this day of tumult and commotion, when a group without proof or evidence made an assault upon [3.5s]

INBA87:378 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=380] INBA52:387 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=389]

MKT3.208 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-208.html] AKHA_121BE #05 p.b [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] ANDA#87 p.06 [https://www.afnanlibrary.org/d/andalib-issue-87]

@banishment to; life in Adrianople, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @growth of the Cause, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @banishment to; life in 'Akka, @praise and encouragement

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

AB00452

580

mixed

Abdu'l-Baha's commentary on the Islamic tradition 'God doth give victory to this religion by means of a wicked man'

ای احبای الهی کور عظیم است و اشراق شدید و عصر خداوند مجید امکان در حرکت است

O ye beloved of God! How great is this Dispensation! How bright the effulgence of this Age, the Age of the All-Glorious Lord

INBA55:288 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v055/?page=290] INBA88:036 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=70]

NURA#65 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#161 p.175 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-178.html] QT108.120-121 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/356.pdf#page=120]

LOTW#65 [http://www.bahai.org/r/958232976]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

AB00451

580

mixed

ان الله لیوید هذا الدین برجل فاجر حدیث شریفده کی فاجر کلمه سی فجوردن مشتق

Some persons have imagined that the word fajir in the holy tradition 'God doth give victory to this religion by means of a wicked man'

MJT.138 [https://bahai-library.com/abdul-baha_alvah_munajat-hayeh_turki]

BSR_v11 p.056-057x [https://bahai-library.com/alkan_god_gives_victory] BLO_PT#005 [https://bahai-library.com/alkan_god_gives_victory]

@interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam

AB00450

580

Arabic

الهی و موید المخلصین و الثابتین علی عهدک و المطمئنین بوعدک وفق عبیدک هولاء

O my God and Helper of them that are sincere and steadfast in Thy Covenant and assured in Thy Promise, assist these Thy servants [3.5s]

MJMJ3.049a [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA3/mma3-51.html] MMG2#115 p.127 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-130.html] DBR.051 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/630.pdf#page=54]

@petitions to authorities, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @prayer for firmness in the Covenant, @prayer for the spiritual progress of others, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

AB00449

580

mixed

اللهم یا الهی و ربی و رجائی و املی و منائی ان هولاء افنان سدره رحمانیتک

O Lord, my God, my Hope, my Aspiration and my Shelter! These are the branches of the Tree of Thy mercy [3.5s]

KHAF.284 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=284]

@steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @being a source of light; guidance

ABU0439

God’s Greatest Gift to Man: Words spoken on 1911-10-26 in Paris

580

Persian

اعظم فضائل عالم انسانی علم است علم سبب ترقی عالم انسانیست علم است که کاشف

The greatest treasure of man is wisdom. Through this he is lifted into great

DWNP_v6#01 p.002-003 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] KHAB.092 (102) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.069 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-71.html]

PT#11 p.032 [http://www.bahai.org/r/042038130] SW_v02#14 p.006-007 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_14] PN_1911 p020 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1911.pdf#page=20]

@serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world, @power of the mind over nature, @high station of learning, @universal peace; world unity, @call to acquire knowledge; sciences

ABU0442

Talk to pilgrims at Haifa pilgrim house, 1914-10-22

580

Persian

حال من بسیار خوبست در جمیع جاها گردیدم هوا باین خوبی ندیدم اگر اهالی اینجا منهمک

I am always well, especially in these days. Here the air is paradisiacal. The weather of Mount Carmel at this season is most healthful... Before we were exiled from Tihran all our properties and possessions were pillaged

KHH1.114-116 (1.159-162) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/354.pdf#page=145]

KHHE.174 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/diary_habib_muayyad.pdf] DAS.1914-10-22 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_13.pdf#page=30]

@greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @suffering and imprisonment, @degrees of faith; certitude

ABU0445

Words spoken at St. John Westminster, 1911-09-16

580

mixed

مظاهر الهیه حکایت از فیوضات غیبیه مینمایند و انعکاس شمس حقیقتند زیرا حقیقت

O Noble Friends! O Seekers for the Kingdom of God! Man all over the world is seeking for God. All that exists is God; but the Reality of Divinity is holy above all understanding.

AKHA_133BE #16 p.514x [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] AMK.242-243 DUR1.154x MMG2#350 p.391x [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MMA/mma-394.html] BHQ.162 KHTB1.026 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-28.html] KHTP.001 NJB_v02#12-13 p.010 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_12]

AIL.022 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA0] SW_v02#12 p.002+12 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_12] ABCC.147-148 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABCC.pdf#page=177] ABS#08 [https://abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/09/17/sermon-at-st-johns-church-westminister/]

@the lower is unable to comprehend the higher, @knowledge; recognition of God, @progressive revelation; renewal of religion, @station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as mirror, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @prayer for forgiveness

ABU0452

Words spoken at the Shrine of the Bab in Aug 1909

580

Das Wort "auserwahlt ("chosen" in Englisch) wird leicht als gleichbedeutend mit "bevorzugt", "verwöhnt", "auserlesen", "vor andern" angesehen. Gerade das Volk Israel hat es kaum je in seiner ganzen Bedeutung erfaßt

SDW v11#06 p.064-065 [https://file.bahai.media/d/da/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_11_Nr_06.pdf#page=6]

@Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @service to others; to the Cause of God, @power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @divine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unity

ABU0453

Words spoken at the Shrine of the Bab in Mar 1910

580

O my daughter, you ask so many things, that His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh could instruct you for many days and weeks!... The Lord God pleased to give the human being three great mysteries

MSBH10.188-190 [https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/areprint/authors/sulayman/masabih10/Masabih_Hidayat_v10.pdf#page=188]

SDW v13#02 p.017-018 [https://file.bahai.media/d/d7/Sonne_der_Wahrheit_Jg_13_Nr_02.pdf#page=7] BLO_PN#047 [https://bahai-library.com/fallscheer_schwarz-solivo_letter]

@free will and predestination; fate, @justice and wrath of God, @relationship of the soul to the body, @mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @soul is the essential reality of man

ABU0454

Words spoken on 1912-10-12 in Oakland

580

This morning we spoke in the Temple Emanu-El at the invitation of Dr. Meyer, who is a most broadminded man. In Persia there are a great many Jews who have become followers of Bahá’u’lláh.

ECN.130 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/c/cooper_abdulbaha_california_1912.pdf#page=130]

@growth of the Cause, @oneness; unity of religion, @crucifixion; ascension of Christ, @rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0449

Words spoken on 1913-11-24 in Ramleh

580

Before the regular stage-post was established in Persia, there were many swift-footed letter-carriers and messengers

DAS.1913-11-24 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_06.pdf#page=23]

@stories; anecdotes, @banishment to; life in Constantinople, @justice and wrath of God

ABU0444

Words spoken on 1914-02-13

580

Persian

فی الحقیقه صعود حضرت ابی الفضائل بلیه ای بود از برای اهل بها در جمیع ممالک دنیا

Truly I say the departure of Mirza Abdu'l-Fazl is an irretrievable loss for the people of Baha.

NJB_v05#01 p.005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_5/Issue_1]

DAS.1914-02-13

@high station of learning, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @eulogies; reminiscences, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @humility; meekness; lowliness, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0438

Words spoken on 1914-06-20 in Haifa

580

Naraq is one of the Provinces of Persian wherein the Cause made its appearance from the beginning, and many people embraced the Teachings.... ...Haji Kamaleddin was one of God's own servants, severed from aught else save him, enkindled

DAS.1914-06-21 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_10.pdf#page=122] SW_v08#19 p.242x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_19] SW_v09#11 p.121x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_11]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

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

ABU0443

Words spoken on 1915-10-29 in Akka

580

Persian

شاه کاووس مرد متکبری بود. سیاوش از او مقبول تر است. کاووس دختر پادشاه یمن را گرفت و او را خیلی دوست داشت

King Kavous was a man of pride and arrogance. Siyavash was more favored than he. Kavoús took to wife the daughter of the King of Yemen, and cherished her with exceeding love [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-10-29 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@historical episodes and the lessons of the past, @justice and wrath of God

ABU0448

Words to Myron Phelps, spoken on 1917-06-07

580

The [animal] spirit will not become human spirit, nor will vegetable spirit become animal spirit. Existence is one, as it appears in every grade, according to the exigency of that grade.

PN_unsorted p053 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=53] BLO_PN#070 [https://bahai-library.com/phelps_pilgrims_notes]

@composition and decomposition, @unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud], @unity; oneness of humanity, @contention and conflict, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @need for cooperation; solitary existence not possible

ABU0441

Words to Shaykh Yousef and others, spoken on 1915-02-21

580

This world of ours is very, very old, subject to periodic revolutions and cyclic fluctuations. Motion and change are its two fixed rules. These two laws are inseparable from each other.

DAS.1915-02-21

@composition and decomposition, @passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence, @progress only takes place within its own degree, @law of transformation and change, @forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God, @plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos, @elementary matter cannot be annihilated

ABU0447

Words to the Baha'is, spoken on 1912-11-26

580

Praise be to God, this is a very good gathering! Blessed souls are present... What is the meaning of the image and likeness of God?

PN_various p021x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/] BSTW#089 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=99]

@coming-of-age; maturity of mankind, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @unity; oneness of humanity, @human reality created in the image of God, @spiritual transformation, @oneness; unity of religion

ABU0450

Words to the friends, spoken around 1915-01-30

580

Mullah Jami writes in his book: 'When I completed my education in the University of Bokhara and gained mastery over the various branches of philosophy

DAS.1915-01-31

@detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @law of pilgrimage, @sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice, @stories; anecdotes, @greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world

ABU0455

570

Persian

حاجی فرجی کحال در بغداد بود خودش میگفت سه هزار چشم کور کردم تا کحال شدم

There was in Baghdad a man by the name of Haji Faraj Kahhal [oculist].

AHDA.509-510 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHDA.pdf#page=523]

STAB#077x [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/stab.pdf#page=77]

@Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih, @stories; anecdotes, @newspapers and the media; publications

ABU0461

570

To see the joy of divine gladness on your faces is the cause of my happiness, for when I see you happy, I am happy also.

SW_v13#05 p.101 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_5] ADP.069-073 [https://books.google.com/books?id=7sEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69]

@suffering and imprisonment, @power of the Manifestation of God, @happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow, @unity; oneness of humanity, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience, @oneness; unity of religion, @martyrs and martyrdom

AB12118

570

Persian

ای طائف بقعه نوراء شکر کن خدا را که هزار فرسنگ طی نمودی و مانند باد بادیه

O thou who hast circumambulated the luminous Sanctuary! Give thanks unto God that thou hast traversed a thousand leagues and, like the desert wind, hast journeyed far [3.5s]

INBA85:030 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=32]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @rendering assistance to God; victory [nusrat], @love of God, @spiritual transformation, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB12117

570

mixed

ای ثابت بر میثاق دو قطعه منشور ثبوت و رسوخ ممهور رسید و بعین رافت ملحوظ افتاد

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Two letters, sealed with constancy and firmness, were received and were considered with the eye of loving-kindness [3.5s]

INBA85:231b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=233]

@power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause, @review of publications, @firmness in the Covenant, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

AB12116

570

Your letter was received, and its contents were of the greatest loveliness. Praise be to God that you have been confirmed in the service of the Kingdom

BBBD.032b

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @praise and encouragement, @growth of the Cause, @spiritual transformation, @acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution

AB12084

570

Arabic

رب و رجائی و مطلبی و منائی تری عبدک الخاضع لسلطنتک الخاشع لباب احدیتک المتشبث

O my Lord, my Hope, my Aim, my Heart's Desire! Thou seest Thy servant, who hath bowed down before Thy sovereignty, who hath prostrated himself at the gate of Thy oneness, who hath clung fast [3.5s]... ...Verily, with a sincere heart, I have rendered thanks unto God for His having aided the friends, despite their poverty and lowliness, to contribute to the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar

BRL_DAK#0823 [https://www.bahai.org/r/171027114] COMP_MASHRIQP#33x [https://adibmasumian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/originals_mashriq_compilation.pdf]

BRL_MASHRIQ#33x [http://www.bahai.org/r/855789172]

@prayer for specific individuals; groups, @firmness in the Covenant, @House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @spiritual communication; connections of the heart

AB00481

570

O thou who art a new grown tree on the meadow of Truth! Thy letter dated October 14, 1920 has been received.

JWTA.033-036 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze] SW_v12#02 p.040-041 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_12/Issue_2]

@lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles, @present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion, @independent investigation of truth; reality, @growth of the Cause, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Declaration of Baha'u'llah, @newspapers and the media; publications

AB00480

570

mixed

یا من ادخره الله لحفظ المیثاق بانک بانک میثاقست و نور شعله اشراق شمع روشن است

O thou whom God hath treasured for the preservation of the Covenant! Thou art indeed the guardian of the Covenant, and a light whose flame doth shine with luminous radiance like unto a bright lamp [3.5s]

INBA13:009 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=4] INBA85:416 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=418]

BRL_DAK#0177 [http://www.bahai.org/r/488050432] MMK6#487 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=356] YIA.353-354 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/yia.pdf#page=349]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

AB00479

570

Arabic

یا ایها السائل البارع الصارع فاصعد الی معارج الحکم الربانیه ثم ادخل فی

O thou sagacious and striving seeker, ascend unto the lofty heights of divine wisdom, and then enter into [3.5s]

BRL_DAK#0779 [https://www.bahai.org/r/852377382] MKT1.480 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-479.html] MAS2.092-094 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS2/mas2-93.html]

@mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision, @The Holy Spirit, @degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence, @the human soul, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

AB00478

570

Arabic

لم ادر یا الهی ان اشکو الیک ای بلائی و ابث ای حزنی و ابتلائی ارایت یا محبوبی

I know not, O my God, which of my afflictions I shall bewail before Thee, nor how I should pour forth my grief and tribulation. Behold, O my Beloved One [3.5s]

INBA87:460 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=462] INBA52:477 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=479]

BRL_DAK#0748 [https://www.bahai.org/r/686120764] KHAF.067 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/635.pdf#page=67]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @suffering and imprisonment, @eulogies; reminiscences, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @prayer for martyrs

AB00474

570

Persian

ای یاران روحانی عبدالبهاء الحمد لله صبح هدی ساطع و اشراق ملکوت ابهی لامع

O spiritual companions of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Praise be to God, the morn of guidance shineth resplendent, and the effulgence of the Abhá Kingdom doth radiate [3.5s]

INBA13:149b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v013/?page=74]

BRL_DAK#1176 [https://www.bahai.org/r/132289136]

@praise and encouragement, @growth of the Cause

AB00473

570

Persian

ای منادی ملکوت در سفری که باطراف رفتی تنها نبودی جان و دل عبدالبهاء با تو بود

O thou herald of the Kingdom! Thou wast not alone in the trip thou didst undertake in various places. The spirit and soul of Abdul-Baha was with thee.

MKT7.125 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-129.html]

TAB.220-223 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0H8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA220]

@Saint Peter and Saint Paul, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of, @suffering; rejection of Christ, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

AB00472

570

mixed

ای منادی الهی نامه که بجناب مستر ویلهلم مرقوم نموده بودی بارض مقدس فرستاد و ملاحظه

O Divine Herald! The letter which thou hadst written to Mr. Wilhelm was sent to the Holy Land and perused [3.5s]

MUH3.292-293 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/286.pdf#page=308]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @progress and the continual ascent of material civilization, @the power of words; of speech, @words vs deeds

AB00470

570

mixed

ای ثابتان بر پیمان ورق مسطور منظور گشت و رق منشور ملحوظ گردید مضامین و معانی رحمانی

O ye who stand fast in the Covenant! The written page was received and the unfolded scroll was perused, with its divine themes and spiritual meanings [3.5s]

INBA84:454 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=457]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @suffering and imprisonment, @station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

AB00471

570

mixed

ای سلیل آن شخص جلیل و نجل سعید آن پدر مجید این مصیبت کبری رزیه عظمی بود و سبب

O scion of that illustrious personage and blessed offspring of that glorious father, this was indeed a supreme calamity and grievous affliction [3.5s]

INBA89:123 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v089/?page=126]

TAH.285x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/682.pdf#page=289]

@consolation and comfort, @eulogies; reminiscences, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @firmness in the Covenant

AB00465

570

Persian

ای احبای الهی و اماء رحمن شمس حقیقت که از افق تقدیس بر آفاق اشراق نمود انوار

O ye beloved of the Lord and handmaids of the All-Merciful! No sooner had the Sun of Truth shone forth from the heaven of sanctity

NURA#46 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/nur-i-afaq.pdf] MMK4#083 p.097 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA4/swa4-100.html] MAS5.183 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MAS5/mas5-183.html]

LOTW#46 [http://www.bahai.org/r/457095173] DAS.1914-04-17x [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/s/sohrab_diary_letters_1913-1914_09.pdf#page=33] SW_v06#12 p.096x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_6/Issue_12] SW_v08#17 p.225x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_8/Issue_17] SW_v09#01 p.013x [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_1] BSTW#073f [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=58] BSTW#098 [http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_051-100.pdf#page=122]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @firmness in the Covenant, @unity; oneness of humanity, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @twin Manifestations

AB00466

570

Announce greeting on my behalf to the two young Japanese and say: “His Imperial Majesty, the Mikado, became the cause of the material progress of Japan.

TAB.565 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R0qAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA565] JWTA.024-025 [https://bahai-library.com/compilation_japan_turn_ablaze]

@House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar], @universal peace; world unity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @power of prayer, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause

AB00467

570

Persian

ای بازماندگان دو نفس مقدس مبارک نامه شما رسید از مضامین واضح و مبرهن بود که

O ye who survive those two sacred and blessed souls! Your letter was received, and from its contents it was clear and evident that [3.5s]

DUR4.457 NNY.062-064 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=72] NNY.208-210 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=218] NNY.309 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=319]

@eulogies; reminiscences, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @prayer for specific individuals; groups, @preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings, @martyrs and martyrdom, @Greatest Name

AB00468

570

...Praise be to God, it has been repeatedly proven that firmness in the Covenant and activity in the service of the Cause is the means

PN_1906 p090 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1906.pdf#page=90]

@firmness in the Covenant, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @oneness; unity of religion, @wisdom [hikmat], @spiritual transformation, @obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God

AB00469

570

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان یکی از نامها که ارسال نموده بودید بواسطه آقا میرزا مهدی علیه

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! One of the letters which thou didst send hath been received through Áqá Mírzá Mahdí [3.5s]

AYBY.446 #184 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-455.html]

@prayer for specific individuals; groups, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause, @martyrs and martyrdom, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @love of God

ABU0456

Public address given on 1912-04-17

570

Persian

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

AB00476

Some Answered Questions #015 True Felicity

570

Persian

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

AB00477

Some Answered Questions #039 The Human and the Divine Station of the Manifestations

570

Persian

گفتیم که در مظاهر ظهور سه مقام هست اول حقیقت جسمانیه که تعلق باین جسد

We stated before that the Manifestations of God have three stations: First, the material reality

MFD#39 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-112.html] OOL.C022.39 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-3-04-fa]

SAQ#39 [http://www.bahai.org/r/905019971]

@station of the Manifestation of God, @Manifestation of God as sun, @twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God, @innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God, @transcendence; unknowability of God, @differences between the Manifestations; station of distinction

AB00475

Some Answered Questions #069 The Influence of the Stars and the Interconnectedness of All Things

570

Persian

بعضی از کواکب آسمانیرا بر کرهء ارض و کائنات ارضیه تأثیر جسمانی واضح و مشهود

Certain celestial bodies exert a physical influence upon the earth and its creatures which is clear and apparent

MFD#69 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-175.html] OOL.C022.69 [https://oceanoflights.org/abdul-baha-bkw22-4-24-fa]

SAQ#69 [http://www.bahai.org/r/950448328]

@interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being, @astrology and numerology, @celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy

ABU0457

The Second Principle—The Unity of Mankind: Words spoken on 1911-11-11 in Paris

570

Persian

Some Prayers by 'Abdu'l-Bahá

دیروز ذکر کردیم اول چیزی که برای انسان لازم تحری حقیقت است و در تحری حقیقت

Yesterday I spoke to you of the First Principle of the Teaching of Baha'o'llah, the Search after Truth

BRL_DAK#1226 [https://www.bahai.org/r/717248752] DWNP_v6#02 p.002-004 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-6-burma-1928] KHAB.157 (168) [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Khutab_Abdul-Baha.pdf] KHTB1.151 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/KA1/ka1-153.html] KHTP.103

PT#42 p.141 [http://www.bahai.org/r/163676260] SW_v03#01 p.004-005 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_3/Issue_1] DWN_v3#01 p.010x [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925]

@independent investigation of truth; reality, @love and unity, @differences in human capacity, @loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0458

Words spoken on 1915-08-11 in Haifa

570

Persian

موسم عید است و ما نومید از دیدار یار عالمی در عیش و نوش و ما بچشم اشکبار

It is the season of festivities, yet We remain bereft of the vision of Our Beloved; whilst the world exulteth in pleasure and delight, Our eyes are filled with tears [3.5s]

ZSM.1915-08-11 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/zsm.pdf]

@Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people, @changing and unchanging parts of religion, @Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc., @laws of God; of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, @universal peace; world unity, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

ABU3648

Words spoken on 1916-01-22

570

Persian

Man of Courage, The

تاریخ حاجی میرزا اقاسی حکایت غریبی است حاجی میر.ا اقاسی اهل تبریز بود... میرزا ابو القاسم قائم مقام اول شخص ایران بود

The story of Haji Mirza Aqasi is indeed a strange account. He was from Tabriz [3.5s]... ...Mírza Abuʼl-Qasim, the Qaʼim-Maqam, was the foremost man of Persia and a highly capable individual

AHB.130BE #09-10 p.19-20 RHQM2.1166-1169 (636) (391-393) [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/653.pdf#page=277] SFI18.276 [https://oceanoflights.org/file/Publications-02_18.pdf#page=276]

LOIR20.172 [http://irfancolloquia.org/pdf/lights20_rafati_maqam_farahani.pdf#page=12] BLO_courage.05 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/m/masumian_nushabadi_man_courage.pdf#page=5]

ABU0460

Words to Fugeta, et al, spoken on 1919-12-30

570

There was a family at Jaziratu'l-Arab. The Sheikh had a nephew who desired to marry the daughter of the Sheikh.

PN_1919 p054 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1919.pdf#page=54]

@stories; anecdotes, @unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0459

Words to George Winterburn et al, spoken on 1904-02-09

570

Every nation is looking for a Promised One, or indeed, for two Manifestations. Zoroastrians expect two. The Jews expect Elias and Christ.

PN_1904 p012 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=12] PN_1904 p048 [https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_1904.pdf#page=48] TTAW.015-019 [https://bahai-library.com/winterburn_table_talks] BLO_PN#102 [https://bahai-library.com/winterburn_table_talks]

@prophecy and fulfillment, @outward and inward meanings, @interpretation of words and passages in scripture, @symbolism, @suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU0472

560

True happiness is found in purity of thought. Whenever I look into your radiant faces I am made most happy because your thoughts are pure

SW_v13#05 p.102-104 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_13/Issue_5]

@high station of learning, @walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life, @Shrines and Holy places, @education of children; moral education, @spiritual emotions and susceptibilities, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world

AB11629

560

mixed

ای یاران بانگ بانگ میثاق است و عهد اثر خامه نیر آفاق شمع موهبت شاهد انجمن است

O friends! The call is the call of the Covenant, and the effect of the pen is the Luminary of the horizons. The candle of bounty is the light of this gathering [3.5s]

FRH.104-105 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/frh.pdf#page=102]

@suffering and imprisonment, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @teaching the Cause; call to teach, @firmness in the Covenant, @detachment; severance; renunciation; patience

AB05961

560

mixed

یا من ایده الله علی الرد علی من رد علی الله نامه مخصوص که بجناب آقا رضا مرقوم

O thou whom God hath aided to refute those who have denied God! A special letter was written to Áqá Riḍá [3.5s]

MMK6#309x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=227] SFI22.018-019 [https://adibmasumian.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/sfi22.pdf]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance

AB00501

560

Arabic

یا من جاهد فی الله و اهتدی الی نور الهدی اعلم ان شمس الحقیقه دلیل علی ذاتها

O thou who art striving after God and art led unto the light of guidance! Know verily that the Sun of Truth

UMich962.123-125 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH962.pdf] UMich991.067-071 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UMICH991.pdf]

BRL_DAK#0746 [https://www.bahai.org/r/655482796] MKT1.118 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-117.html] AVK1.145-146x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK1/ak1-170.html]

KSHK#17 [https://web.archive.org/web/20211026145946/http://www.kashkul.org/2010/11/28/life-on-other-planets/]

@plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos, @proofs of the Manifestations of God, @Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

AB00500

560

mixed

ترانی یا الهی متذللا الی عتبه رحمانیتک متضرعا الی ساحه فردانیتک مبتهلا الی

O my God! Thou seest me abased before the threshold of Thy mercy, supplicating at the sanctuary of Thy oneness, imploring at [3.5s]

MKT6.188b [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA6/ma6-188.html]

@autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @praise and encouragement, @consolation and comfort

AB00499

560

Arabic

ترانی یا الهی مبتهلا الی ملکوت رحمانیتک متضرعا الی جبروت وحدانیتک مهتزا من

Thou seest me, O my God, supplicating before Thy merciful Kingdom, humbly beseeching at the threshold of Thy divine Unity, trembling with [3.5s]

INBA88:135b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v088/?page=169]

AYBY.343 #025 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AB/ab-352.html]

@rejection, opposition and persecution, @suffering and imprisonment, @prayer for victory and requital; triumph of the Cause, @prayer for steadfastness; obedience, @prayer for assistance; intercession, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @prayer for protection

AB00498

560

mixed

ایها الفرع الجلیل من السدره الالهیه الحمد لله که فیوضات ملکوت ابهی از جمیع

O noble branch of the divine Lote-Tree! Praise be to God that the outpourings of the Most Glorious Kingdom from all [3.5s]... ...In cycles gone by, though harmony was established, yet, owing to the absence of means, the unity of all mankind could not have been achieved

INBA87:452b [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v087/?page=454] INBA52:468 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v052/?page=470]

MSHR4.220-221x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MSHR4.pdf#page=216]

PDC.024x [http://www.bahai.org/r/909871128]

@Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @growth of the Cause, @suffering and imprisonment, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @the Word of God; influence and centrality of

AB00497

560

Persian

ای همدم و ندیم عبدالبهاء نامه چهاردهم یونیو سنه ۹۱۳ رسید ستایش از امة الله

O companion and confidant of 'Abdu'l-Bahá! Thy letter of 14 June 1913 hath been received. Praise be unto the handmaiden of God [3.5s]

YIK.098-099 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/257.pdf#page=107]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @rejection by the people of the Bayan, @servitude; submission to God; repentance, @power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers

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

AB00495

560

mixed

ای مبارک فرزند آن بزرگوار خبر موحش مدهش شهادت آن سراج هدی سبب اندوه و احزان

O blessed child of that noble soul! The shocking and devastating news of the martyrdom of that lamp of guidance hath caused sorrow and grief [3.5s]... ...O peerless Lord! Praised be Thou for having kindled that light in the glass of the Concourse on high

MKT1.428 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA1/ma1-427.html] AKHA_107BE #05 p.02 [https://afnanlibrary.org/akhbar-i-amri/] DUR1.513x TISH.123-124 [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tarikh-i-Ishqabad.pdf&page=118] MSBH3.607-609 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/sulaymani_masabih-i-hidayat_vol_3/?page=304] NANU_AB#09 [https://www.bahai.org/r/264601269]

BRL_APAB#12x [http://www.bahai.org/r/739172569]

@expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @consolation and comfort, @martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation

AB00494

560

mixed

ای دو مومن موقن ثابت حمد خدا را که از شعله نور هدی سینای دل و جان روشن شد

O ye two steadfast believers assured in faith! Praise be to God that the flame of the light of guidance hath illumined the Sinai of your hearts and souls [3.5s]... ...God’s wisdom hath decreed that partners to a marriage should be of distant origins

BRL_DAK#0826 [https://www.bahai.org/r/402506166] COMP_FAMP#11x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/family_life_compilation_originals.pdf] MKT3.370 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA3/ma3-370.html] MMK6#339 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1699.pdf#page=249] AVK3.509.09x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK3/ak3-513.html] AVK4.155.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-159.html] AVK4.192.03x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-196.html] AVK4.209.05x [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/c/AK4/ak4-213.html] DWNP_v3#05 p.031-033 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/the-dawn-vol-3-burma-1925]

BRL_FAM#11x [http://www.bahai.org/r/652399096]

@law of inheritance, @law of divorce, @laws of marriage and dowry, @praise and encouragement, @unchastity and adultery

AB00493

560

Persian

ای دختر عزیز ملکوتی من نامه بیست و پنجم مارچ از مانت پلرین رسید از مضمون

O thou my dear heavenly daughter, The epistle dated Mach 25th from Mont Pelerin was received. From the contents the utmost joy was obtained

BRL_DAK#0116 [http://www.bahai.org/r/536815153]

BBBD.171x LBLT.109ax [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LBLT.pdf#page=110] LBLT.111x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LBLT.pdf#page=112] LBLT.113x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LBLT.pdf#page=114] LBLT.119x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LBLT.pdf#page=120] LBLT.125x [http://bluefin.live/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LBLT.pdf#page=126]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @charitable associations; humanitarian activities

AB00491

560

mixed

ای ثابت بر پیمان نامه بتاریخ ١١ شوال وصول یافت مجلس ضیافتی که تشکیل شد و انجمن

O thou who art steadfast in the Covenant! Thy letter dated the 11th of Shawwal hath been received. The feast that was arranged, and the gathering [3.5s]

INBA84:368 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v084/?page=371]

@teaching the Cause; call to teach, @war and peace, @spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts, @praise and encouragement, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @predictions and prophecies, @rejection, opposition and persecution, @defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics

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

AB00489

560

mixed

ای بازماندگان شهدای سبیل الهی نامه های شما رسید با وجود عدم فرصت آنی بدقت

O remnants of the martyrs in the path of God! Your letters have been received and despite the lack of a moment's spare time

NANU_AB#06 [https://www.bahai.org/r/344182768]

BRL_FIRE_AB#05 [http://www.bahai.org/r/539495503]

@consolation and comfort, @tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering, @transience; worthlessness of the physical world, @spiritual transformation, @martyrs and martyrdom, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00488

560

mixed

ای افنون رفیع سدره الهی قریب بغروب است و از طلوع تا بحال این خامه در تحریر

O exalted branch of the Divine Lote-Tree! The sun is nigh to setting, and from its rising until this moment I have been engaged in writing [3.5s]

MMK5#239 p.188 [http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SWA5/swa5-191.html] MSHR5.068x [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1731.pdf#page=64]

@station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day

AB00487

560

Persian

ای احبای عزیز الهی و ای اماء محترمه ربانی این بنده آستان بهاء چندیست باقلیم

O beloved friends of God and esteemed handmaidens of the Lord! This servant at the Threshold of Bahá hath for some time [3.5s]

INBA85:170 [https://afnanlibrary.org/d/inba_v085/?page=172]

MKT7.243 [https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/MA7/ma7-247.html] NJB_v02#08-09 p.001-002 [https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_2/Issue_8]

@suffering and imprisonment, @growth of the Cause, @purpose of religion in the world (personal and social), @call to action, @unity; oneness of humanity

AB00486

560

Arabic

الهی الهی لم ینقض یوم علی عبدالبهاء الا و تقع مصیبه دهماء و لم تتول لیله الا

O my God, O my God! No day hath passed over 'Abdu'l-Bahá except there befell a grievous calamity, and no night hath elapsed save [3.5s]

NNY.069-072 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/282.pdf#page=79]

@suffering and imprisonment, @steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness, @Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers, @prayer for protection

AB00485

560

mixed

النور الساطع و الضیاء اللامع من شمس الحقیقه الفائض من ملکوت الابهی علیکم ایها

May the light emanating and the glory radiating from the Sun of Truth, which bestows grace from the Abha Kingdom

AMK.067-069 LMA2.405 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/360.pdf#page=413] MUH2.0781 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/285.pdf#page=88] MLK.097 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/403.pdf#page=97] NYMG.183 [https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/460.pdf#page=188]

NYR#203 [https://www.nayriz.org/template.php?pageName=illuminatedTablets]

@martyrs and martyrdom, @spiritual transformation, @prayer for martyrs, @praise and encouragement, @expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness

AB00484

560

mixed