Shoghi Effendi's opinion about Islam

Strange, incredibly strange, must appear the position of this most powerful branch of the Islamic Faith (Sunni), with no outward and visible head to voice its sentiments and convictions, its unity irretrievably shattered, its radiance obscured, its law undermined, its institutions thrown into hopeless confusion. This institution that had challenged...

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Titles of Baha'u'llah

• the "Light and the Splendor of God" • the "Lord of Lords" • the "Most Great Name" • the "Ancient Beauty"• the "Finger of Glory" • the "Pen of the Most High" • the "Hidden Name" • the "Preserved Treasure" • "He Whom God will make manifest"• "He Who is the Lord of all religions" • the "Most Great Light" • the "All-Highest Horizon" • the "Most Great...

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The effect of Bahá’u’lláh’s 200th Birthday Celebrations are staggering!

The effect of this (Bahá’u’lláh’s 200th Birthday Celebrations) has been staggering. A conservative estimate indicates that across India almost 200,000 friends spoke about Bahá’u’lláh and taught the Faith to more than 400,000 others. In addition, proclamation was also done through radio coverage reaching out to a number of cities and the film ‘Light...

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Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years...

Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor. We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim. Should he repent, God will, no doubt, forgive him. If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly, send down one...

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Your achievements during the Bicentenary amply proved the current potential for teaching. Go forward, then, with faith

In the United States, the Bicentenary events were attended by some 120,000 people, nearly two-thirds of them not members of the Faith. Impressive as this is, far more moving to us were stories we received from hundreds of individuals about their personal efforts to engage in meaningful conversations about the Blessed Beauty and His teachings. These...

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Miracles

Did you know that there were more than ten assassination attempts on the life of Baha'u'llah in the course of close to fifty years (1844-92), but instead, God meant for this Manifestation of God to live His life and produce some one hundred volumes of Holy Words for posterity in spite of the most severe tortures, imprisonment, deprivations, and exiles?...

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I am He Who hath raised up all creatures through a word of My mouth

I am He Who hath raised up all creatures through a word of My mouth, and My power is, in truth, equal to My purpose. (Baha'u'llah, Suriy-i-Haykal, Surih of the Temple, 1:75, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts)http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/SLH/slh-4.h...

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The day is approaching when We will have rolled up the world and all that is therein, and spread out a new order in its stead.

Baha'u'llah says : By My Self! The day is approaching when We will have rolled up the world and all that is therein, and spread out a new order in its stead. He, verily, is powerful over all things. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-143.html...

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Were any of the Manifestations of God to declare: “I am God”, He, verily, speaketh the truth !

Baha'u'llah says : Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: “I am God”, He, verily, speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His names and His attributes, are made manifest in the world… http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-177.html...

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I am God and I am coarser than clay!

Baha'u'llah says : When I contemplate, O my God, the relationship that bindeth me to Thee, I am moved to proclaim to all created things “verily I am God”; and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-177.html...

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I am He, Himself, and He is I, Myself...

By John Wiegley When I see my wife each day, I see her physical form, hear her voice, and say, "Yes, you are my wife". But I've never seen the soul of my wife; even she has not seen it. Does this mean I've never seen or known my wife? The relationship of the Manifestations of God to God is one of the great mysteries. I find it eloquently expressed...

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